Google Updates External Link Report in Webmaster Tools
You may want to take a peek at your Google’s Webmaster Central account. They recently updated the long overdue external links report. The last time my report was updated was mid-April most will be impressed with the more recent figures.
Here’s how you get to the report:
- -> Google’s Webmaster Central
- -> Webmaster tools (including Sitemaps)
- -> Manage http://www.whateverURL.com/
- -> Links tab
Nice part about the report is that it can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. The report gives you three columns of data: pages, links and last found date.
If Google updated this report regularly, I see a lot of opportunity for SEOs and developers to use that data for external link analysis.
Looking at the stats, I went from roughly 2,000 to over 9,000 external links since the last update in April. How did you make out?
but why do u need to use these tools to tell your external links? isn’t the simple link: command sufficient? Also there are lots of tools available that provides you with even more detailed information about your backlinks….
my 2 cents…
I think Google PR update will be due in a week or two now. Last time, Google PR came in the last week of April, and if the external links updated some where in mid-April, we should be having the PR update soon now.
To answer lifesperspective.com question, link: command does not show all the links. More links and their detail are shown using the Google Webmaster Central Tools. Google did not have any tool before to show all external tools before, that is why they introduced this.
Very very good. I didn’t even notice; it’s good so many eyes stick to it, and let the others know.
I do agree with SEO Blog. the “link:” does not show all the links you get. Neither does “linkdomain:”