Live Search is finally showing backlink counts and locations again. In March of 2007, Microsoft announced that they were no longer able to support backlink checks through their search platform.
I’m not sure what they’ve done to eliminate automated queries, (and in fact to me it looks like they they didn’t do anything), but it appears to be fixed, although it operates just a little bit differently.
Tthe big difference? You now have to put a “+” sign in front of the link: or linkdomain: command and it’s now working again…
+linkdomain:domain.com or +link:domain.com
Nice! (or “big deal!” depending on the mood you’re in…
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Still, different tools give very different MBL results. +Link: query gives 1, Webmaster Center gives 4000 and Search Engine Genie gives 700. What is the right number, as such exists?
Jaak says:
Still, different tools give very different MBL results. +Link: query gives 1, Webmaster Center gives 4000 and Search Engine Genie gives 700. What is the right number, as such exists?
Jaak http://seoapplied.blogspot.com/