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Does anyone know if it's always the case that you can find spammy links to your site by using Google (e.g. link:mysite.com)? My link count in webmaster tools is
by skyraider 13y ago
Does anyone know if it's always the case that you can find spammy links to your site by using Google (e.g. link:mysite.com)? My link count in webmaster tools is an order of magnitude higher than the inbound links that I can find by using the search engine.
- SquareWheel 13y agolink: shows a limited subset, to prevent stealing competitor's links. Webmasters/Analytics should show everything though.
- adorable 13y agoAs far as I've seen, the links you'll find through the search engine are a limited set of links from "important" pages (i.e. not the spammy ones). To find your spammy backlinks you'd have to use webmaster tools.
- skyraider 13y agoRight now, it seems GWT only shows a "sample" of links, and that sample is chosen from the 100 domains that link most frequency. GWT's "total links" count for my site is about 75x larger than the number of links they'll give me. I'm wondering if it's a spammer registering a whole bunch of spammy domains. GWT doesn't seem to allow me to discover what all of these links are, so I couldn't disavow them even if I wanted to.
- trevin 13y agoGoogle's WT index seems to provide a fair amount of the links. There are a few 3rd party tools that do a really good job of indexing nearly all of the backlinks to your site: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org http://www.opensiteexplorer.org http://www.ahrefs.com http://www.ahrefs.com http://www.majesticseo.com http://www.majesticseo.com
- skyraider 13y agoThanks, opensiteexplorer displays about 75x more links that GWT does. Great stuff.