14 DAY TRIAL // If you are an experienced webmaster, you should know how important it is to know the right number of your backlinks. Actually, how can you define a backlink? Generally, it represents a link to your page published on a different website that helps you increase your PageRank in several search engines on the Internet. Because it is so important, webmasters from the worldwide web are trying to increase the number of their backlinks to obtain a better PageRank position. The procedure is quite simple and it is often used to created GoogleBombs, an illegal activity that can influence the search engine to display different results that the correct ones.
So, how can we discover the right number of our website's backlinks? Well, there are a lot of services and applications available for download but, until now, the most used tool to find backlinks was Google's shortcut "link:site". Because it is quite useful, the company decided to improve the function and add even more power, making it an important part of the Google Webmaster Tools service. Google's employees posted a message on the official blog to announce the new improvement and to provide more details about it.
"You asked, and we listened: We've extended our support for querying links to your site to much beyond the link: operator you might have used in the past. Now you can use webmaster tools to view a much larger sample of links to pages on your site that we found on the web. Unlike the link: operator, this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and downloaded. All you need to do is verify site ownership to see this information. To make this data even more useful, we have divided the world of links into two types: external and internal. Let's understand what kind of links fall into which bucket," a Google employee posted on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
The product is quite useful because it can provide information about two types of backlinks, internal and external. The external backlinks are regarded as the links coming from the entire Internet, except your page, while internal backlinks refer to the links placed inside your website. If you're interested in this new tool provided by the company, you should read the entire post published by Google's employees available here.