Significance of backlinks with "link:" function on Google? - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

Aveligand · 02-13-2008, 03:43 AM

Ok, I have a dumb noob question.

I know that Google doesn't show all the backlinks to any given site with the "link:yoursite.com" function, but what's the significance of the sites or backlinks that do show up there? Are these the sites with higher authority? Aged domains? Have a minimum pagerank? What's the deal?

paulus · 02-13-2008, 07:05 AM

I would guess that the opposite is true. It's likely that Google shows the 'weaker' links to stop webmasters rushing out and getting powerful links they know Google will like.

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02-13-2008, 07:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
paulus Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 30 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I would guess that the opposite is true. It's likely that Google shows the 'weaker' links to stop webmasters rushing out and getting powerful links they know Google will like.