Checking Backlinks on Google

[Connie]

For years it has been impossible to get an idea of the number of backlinks that Google might know about for your site. Google has now added some new tool that will allow you to get a better idea of the number of backlinks they know about. I have written a little more about this on the Jagblog if your interested.

[homoludens]

Thanks for the info, Connie.

Amusingly the new tool shows about 1000% more inbound links for my main site. Yay for google's inability to do things properly any more.

[Ron]

Connie,
I just wanna say thanks for your previous blog post about the AdSense manager interview. It was a good listen.

[Ron]

I looked at this tool and notice 2 things:
1) I've got a lot of garbage links coming into my site!
2) Google isn't tracking my internal links very well, or doesn't care about a lot of them.

Thanks again

[Vin DSL]

That's great, and all, Connie!

However, this last round of 'PR' downgrades sealed their fate, I'm afraid...

Google, et al, is about to get their clock cleaned!

Mark my words on this...

[Connie]

Not sure what you mean by

this last round of 'PR' downgrades

The last TB update was a few weeks ago. This new tool was just released. i haven't seen many complaints about loss of PR.

Google is constantly looking for ways to evaluate the quality of a link. Personally I do not think actual PR or TBPR has anything to do with the number of links. I think it has to do with the quality of those links.

[Connie]

Ron I've got a lot of garbage links too. I think most sites have garbage links. That's one reason I don't think the number of links has anything to do with PR.

I got a 404 error page when trying to check internal links. Since this is all new I'm not surprised there may be some bugs in the system.

Over a period of time we might get an idea about the links that Google thinks is valuable based on the crawl date if we keep records.