Google Webmaster Tools Improves its Link Data
Trent Blizzard | 14 July 2010 | 5 Reviews »
Here is another quick update on Google Webmaster Tools.
They recently enlarged their data in the “links to your site” report. Finally, Google seems to be showing a healthy list of all the links that point to your own website.
This improvement means that Google Webmaster tools will become one of the goto tools for measuring how many links point to your website. One nice feature is that they also break the links down by which page they link into, so you can get a better sense of your “deep linking” strategies.
Read yesterday’s article about the exciting “search queries” report that talks about improved data in that report too.
July 14th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
This is good news to hear – google, once again, is making life easier for us normal people. No more scouring different sites to find all the links. Thanks for posting!
Irma
July 17th, 2010 at 1:53 am
I’ve tried it and it’s really great plus the fact that it’s easy to navigate though I still have to learn some data that it provides, I know it’s very good tool even for non-IT.
July 19th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
That functionality was long overdue. Google was loosing traffic to Yahoo because most of us had to go there just to check the inbound links count. I’ll make sure I give that new webmasters tool a spin. Thanks for spreading the good news.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 am
The list of inbound links on Google Webmaster Tools is generally much larger than the list of inbound links that can be discovered using the link:somewebsite.com search query on Google itself. Google is tight lipped about the discrepancy. The list on Google Webmaster Tools includes nofollow links that do not convey search engine optimization authority to the linked site. On the other hand, the list of links generated with a link:somewebsite.com type query are deemed by Google to be “important” links in some ill-defined sense.
August 6th, 2010 at 1:37 am
This is good news to hear that google, once again, is making life easier for us normal people.Thanks for posting.