Well this one isn’t going to be overly long but I just wanted to make a note of something I discovered today. I have been telling many people that you can type link:anydomain.com into many search engine search fields and it will list all those sites that have anchor points pointing towards the site in question.
The problem was that though some links were showing up for domains I knew the history of the list was incomplete. I couldn’t figure out why. Then lo and behold knowledge entered my world in the form of the Shaw Digital Phone Guy. He was over to set up my new phone line and we got to talking which often happens if you leave me in a room with anybody at all. Turns out we have some similar interests.
He tells me that the key to that search feature is to leave a space between the colon and the URL. (ie. link: yourdomain.com) And the results. Flawless. Blew me away, Google was able to indicate all of the inbound links for said domain. So what is the difference and what was the search engine showing without the space?
I don’t know. But I’m going to find out and when I do…
I’m going to post them here. So stay tuned.