Posted by : Tom Doyle in (Internet & Computers, Online Marketing, Web Design) 6th Feb, 2007
Google Webmaster Central provides new backlink tool
For a long time now, Google has hidden the number of links linking back to websites when utilising the “link:” function in Google search (e.g. link:www.tomdoyletalk.com). This was for obvious reasons, mainly to stem the growth of people abusing the backlink algorithm.
Today, Google announced that you can now access greater information on the links linking back to your website using the Google Webmaster Central link tool.
There’s more information on Google’s webmaster blog - but you should remember that this is still not 100% accurate. They still hold back all the links the your site that they have ono record. So hopefully this will change over time.
The reknowned Matt Cutts also has an article about it with more information.