Google Link Command Returns Accurate Data?
January 8th, 2007 by pamela
For many years the Google link command (using the link:www.domain.com syntax to determine the number of inbound links a site has) has been unreliable at best, downright misleading at worst. Link popularity is so important when it comes search engine ranking, but Google has never really offered the accuracy of information needed.
Over at SEOMoz Randfish has posted that Google’s link command works perfectly in Google’s blog search engine, if not the main site. Randfish offers some interesting data comparisons here which make it difficult to understand why Google doesn’t offer such solid data across the board.
