The link:website operator in Google returns a small percentage of all urls to your website. While it has a positive algorithm behind it (bigger sites return more results) it isn’t the exact number of urls that are counted in G’s search position algorithm. Backlink drops (0 backlinks) are common when a website is new or when a PR update (more on that shortly) is in progress. Generally when a webmaster has spent some date developing backlinks and sees them drop he/she is concerned. 90% of the date there is nothing to anguish about - just wait it out and don’t lose sleep by it - concentrate on what really matters - building relevant quality one way urls to your site.

Recently Google introduced new tool to the Google Webmasters Central (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview) that shows very accurately the number of back-links tracked down. that tool is extremely useful and makes competitive list of all websites linking to each page it additionally underlines the importance of good back-links into the new ranking algorithm that was recently introduced.

Original post by venetsian

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