The New Link: 2.0!
Google’s been getting bashed for the inaccuraccy of the link: command for a while, and it’s finally gotten around to fixing it (somewhat).
If you log into Google Sitemaps / Google Webmaster Central, you’ll notice that there’s a tab for links. Going into shows you what inbound links Google knows about. It’s useful, and very similar to Yahoo’s! Site Explorer. As a comparison, Google has 593 inbound links to MikeBogo.com, Yahoo has 588.
Couple of important caveats from Matt Cutt’s anouncement -
1) Not all the links are showing up yet. Much better than what link: provides, but still not 100%.
2) Just because a link is in there, doesn’t mean its passing rank.
So there’s still a lot of guesswork, but we’ve got a much better tool to work with now. Cookie to you, Google!
