A little help please

[Mark Bolyard]

I was hoping someone might be able to explain this to me. What is the difference between link:website.com and finding pages the contain the term "website.com" ?

I have exchanged links with other sites, however I go to marketleap.com and have 0 links on google. When I go to google, and use link:website.com or link:www.website.com I get 2 sites linking to mine, of which are two I never requested a link from or new about.

The if I search for website.com I see my website only, the click the link on google that reads show sites containing the term website.com and I get 150+, and they are clickable links on those site.

Why do the above show as containing the term, but don't show as links even though they are correctly coded links?

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[flatt]

The google "link:" search has been a bit broken for a while now. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

 

[Mark Bolyard]

The google "link:" search has been a bit broken for a while now. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

Is that how marketleap determines thier google backlinks? if so now I understand why. Thanks!

 

[Mr.Domains]

It the sites that ARE linking to you AREN'T showing up in your link:search it just means that Google hasn't re-indexed those sites since they added your link. Chances are they are low PR sites, so Google doesn't visit them all that often.