Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Webmaster Level: AllThe "Links to your site" feature in Webmaster Tools is now updated to show you which domains link the most to your site, in addition to other improvements. On the overview page you'll notice that there are three main sections: the domains linking most to your site, the pages on your site with the most links, and a sampling of the anchor text external sites are using when they link to your site.
Who links the most
Clicking the “More »” link under the “Who links the most” section will take you to a new view that shows a listing of all the domains that link to your site. Each domain in the list can be expanded to display a sample of pages from your site which are linked to by that domain.
The "More »" link under each specific domain lists all the pages linked to by that domain. At the top of the page there's a total count of links from that domain and a total count of your site's pages linked to from that domain.
Your most linked content
If you drill into the “Your most linked content” view from the overview page, you’ll see a listing of all your site’s most important linked pages. There's also a link count for each page as well as a count of domains linking to that page. Clicking any of the pages listed will expand the view to show you examples of the leading domains linking to that page and the number of links to the given page from each domain listed. The data used for link counts and throughout the "Links to your site" feature is more comprehensive now, including links redirected using 301 or 302 HTTP redirects.
Each page listed in the "All linked pages" view has an associated "More »" link which displays all the domains linking to that specific page on your site.
Each domain listed leads to a report of all the pages from that domain linking to your specific page.
We hope the updated “Links to your site” feature in Webmaster Tools will help you better understand where the links to your site are coming from and improve your ability to track changes to your site’s link profile. Please post any comments you have about this updated feature or post your questions in the Webmaster Help Forum. We appreciate your feedback since it helps us to continue to improve the functionality of Webmaster Tools.
64 comments:
What if the site that links to you the most is listed as your own site? Is there something messed up there?
Wonderful. At last you guys at Google have come out with a thorough link analysis tool - thanks!
I noticed for a while something strange with this link analysis: none of the links to my main pages are referenced. On the "most linked content" tab, the main page simply does not appear. This bug really limits the interest of the google webmaster link analysis.
Love it, thank you! This was a much-needed feature!
Another addition to help me manage my sites better. Thank you Google.
I just want Total Inbound Links figure... how do I get that??
Another great enhancement. Thanks G!
This is perfect and a much desired feature update.
Thanks Google
Incredible. Finally something is there on that people can rely regarding their back link analysis. Thanks a lot GOOGLE..
This is simply superb. Its simple understandable by the new comer. Nice classification
Hi,
Thanks alot. That is better now. The previous mode was not useful.
Mostatil.ir
Good one...But is Google considering all the links from one domain for backlink? It would be great if we get specific details for links to your site/ pages?
Wow that is so useful tool.
I wish you could have released it earlier, it would have saved a lot of my time an money which I invested in developing similar tool.
I see GWT is getting better day by day.
It would be nice to see the pagerank of specific backlinks, and the ability to filter/sort based on pagerank.
'Who links the most' is not necessarily the most credible or useful information to have, yet this is shown at the top.
Nice work though, thanks for the continued development.
Another of some great tweaks ..
Cool
Had a look at one of my clients backlinks and see that there are over 500 link pointing from one directory. The directory is using tags and Google is caching all of the tag pages. Would this be classed as un-ethical?
Hi All,
This tweak seems good in all sense...!!
I wish they have kepts the download all links in one click functionality...!!
It would be nice to have a "new links" feature.
That would allow to answer: how are we doing lately?"
I checked and my GWT just says 'no data available' now ... is this update rolled out yet?
I love the changes Google has been making to webmaster tools. Over the last few months we had been checking the "total inbound links" # daily to see overall changes in who was linking to us. I can't find this number anymore - will it be coming back? Was it moved somewhere else?
This is certainly more useful than the old Links section of WMT.
Here are some general questions about this tool:
A1. Is the "anchor text" section of "Links to your site" in order of most used, most "important", some other order, or a random sample?
Our site was previously showing 36M internal links, an obvious aberration caused by their decision to use Websphere Portal to run their site, which in turn spawned horrific amounts of practically unindexable dynamic urls. Anyway, with this change the internal links has dropped to a more reasonable amount, but now the "links to your site" section shows that they are the top link referrer to their own site, and those millions of links have gone into there.
B1. What are some reasons our own domain would be appearing in the "links to your site" section?
Most of the other link referring domains don't seem to exist. And many of the urls have "rls"+some number, as the subdomain.
B2. Any reasons why WMT is showing the domains who link most but are sites that aren't working (but are indexed in Google)?
B3. Any clues to what this rls reference in the subdomain is?
Thank you for any feedback.
Would also love to know if seeing the non www as your mail link is normal or requires action?
An appreciated change, although anything that only provides a sampling is relatively pointless, you can hardly report a "sample" level of anything to clients.
What would be really useful is a complete list of all backlinks indexed, with the ability to sort by follow/nofollow.
Cheers Google - Nice one
David
Thanks for the update. Keep them coming.
CiSomething strange.
The tool post me some inbound links to some PDF files but the link on the original site is to a copy of the same pdf on their server.
Nice move Google but why on earth, the links to our website have decreased from 900~ to 400~. Is this another kind of Google dance...Any idea Matt or others?
This is the right way to do this, cheers..
Awesome. Thanks for new/improved tool.
These enhancements are great, but could we please fix the issue that WMT "Links to your Site" still displays links and pages that no longer exist?
I love much on the "Your most linked content". Thanks for providing.
Incredibly helpful feature. Thank you Google.
it's too much good :D I like it..
This feature saves us lot of time in analyzing the backlinks for our website. Thanks to Google :)
Anyhow, we want to see the total inbound links count...
Yes, great addition... but the Google webmaster tools links have long been perceived as inferior to other tools such as Yahoo Site Explorer. Why does Google share just a tiny fraction of the real inbound links to a site?
Big question - why does Google not really share what it truly knows about link profiles? Sorry to not be a Google Cheerleader... Just being realistic.
Like the change, but could you please bring back the link that lets us download all the links in one stop instead of having to download them by cluster
hi :)
thank you for notifiy this change, that looks very interesting.
but i'm fetching data everyday and this change made me a little disapponted.
infact data is really changed in the meanwhile.
how can i get the same old value to continue my analysis?
thank you in advance :)
Love your company...
What can be said about Google?
Almost everything. You guys provide so much for so little and have continued to provide my companywith very awsome tools.
BIG Thank You!
This post so much helpful
This feature will definitely help in analysis of any website.
I love it!
I like it very much!
Thanks for update.
I'd also like to be able to separate nofollow from follow links. Most of mine are the former, so it'd be good to be able to easily find any that are passing PR.
I'm still looking for discovery date of the incoming link and duration. Perhaps when the incoming link was first detected. If an incoming link was reported then dropped. Integrating these items with analytics would be very cool from a reporting perspective. Perhaps they do and I just don't know it.
nice post
nice post
It is a great news for Webmasters !
Thanks a lot!
Cheers!
Bob Luis
I like the potential, but currently I am seeing very old data. Pages that used to have our links and sites that are no more.... Once this is updated with current info it should become more practical. I date drill down menu would be nice too ;-)
Hello. I have a problem with google indexing. I have 1235 posts and I do not see google than 280 of them. When adding the site map tells me that google is 620 but only 300
I added the site webmaster
I added the site map
Indexing is done very slowly or not at all
I work on the blogspot platform and fail to see what has not index
Sorry if I wrong but I do not know English well ...
If you can wait for a response by email: neacsu_alex2099@yahoo.com or even on my site www.24monden.net
Seconding the request from poster "live" to get a total count of external links to the site, ideally accessible via the API.
Great service and information from WMT and Google. There seem to be a lot of great questions in the comments of this post and many other posts from the webmaster tools blog. Where's the answers to these questions? I thought it was ment to be a discussion instead of just telling people and if it's just telling people then why have comments?
This tool is very helpful to us as a webmaster. Thank you Google webmaster for this updated tools again.
Hey, I loved the Download-Option. So i could process the data myself. Now i only can download the number of links to a page and noch a table like
site a linked by site b
site c linked by site c
…
This download was really helpful for me. So: please reintegrate it.
Thanks
I have some sites that were apparently deindexed because of "bad links". I want to remove the bad links - can I be pointed in the right direction for where to look for "bad neighborhood links"?
Thanks.
wow, one of the better updation in Google webmaster, I like it.
I like this change. It makes it easy to look up sites linking to your pages.
However, I very much miss the CSV file I used download that had my URL, the linking URL, and a Date for my site. This file made it very easy to find the links to a certain section of the site.
i have questions..
how to increase index from google search engine with specific "link:mysite._com"
The new organization is nice for browsing, but it seems with this change that it is no longer possible to export a CSV of all external links to your site.
We found the full export extremely useful for doing deeper analysis of links. Please bring it back!
Hi: First time here & not sure if I'm asking the right question, but here it goes:
Because we stopped posting articles to our blog for a few months, there's a gap. So, our web guy says we must keep posting with old dates until we catch up to the present. He says Google will read the dates as it crawls, and that Google will care about this.
Is this true? Is there anything wrong with posting some as the present date, some with older dates and work toward the middle?
Thanks!
thx for info
I have a problem with just this.
Yesterday Google Webmaster Tools showed me that I had roughly 1000 links to my site. Today, it says "No data available."
People who enters my site from Google have also dropped from around 40, to 0. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marcus
very helpful information.Thanks a lot.
is this any way of removing external links from webmaster tool
because this site webshotspro.com show many links while i have submitted only category
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