google backlinks messed up ?

[sadman]

I just noticed that # of backlinks is coming weird. Also pr looks shaky. Can someone tell me if there are server probs at Google or a major update is taking place ?
Sadman

[Bill]

I think it's some kind of server problem.

This has happened before, and when it did, it was server issues. Once I believe it was some kind of DDOS attack.

Nothin to do but wait it out.

[ronnie]

If your checking your back links in google itself, dont bother. It has'nt been correct in like forever anyways, wheither the servers are going good or not. Yahoo usually shows a more accurate count.

ronnie

[SEO_Konsul]

google has problems with their capacity

[Ledfish]

Actually, they stopped showing all backlinks and backlinks of a specific type to make it harder for you to catch up to your competition by adding some mystery when it came to exactly which backlinks were helping someone rise to the top

[sadman]

I wasn't using Google itleslf for backlinks, but the tools from rustybrick. Anybody has an idea how different are the results compared to Google ?
Sadman

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by sadman

I wasn't using Google itleslf for backlinks, but the tools from rustybrick. Anybody has an idea how different are the results compared to Google ?
Sadman

Depends on what the tool uses to check back links. Most tools use a search engine to give you data. If it uses google to check back links, should'nt be any different than if you checked in google yourself, which would be way off.

ronnie

[Linkster]

Backlinks as mentioned already havent been right on Google since a year ago - and they did it on purpose after it was suggested at one of the conferences by a member of a major SEO msg board - Google liked the idea and implemented it - this also affects all of the tools that query Google for thier backlinks

Yahoo on the other hand is a closer representation of your actual backlinks count

The PR bar has been a useless tool for at least the last year as well - probably closer to two years now - it hasnt reflected the true page rank of a page in that long - and rumours are saying that it may completely go away with the new issue of the toolbar coming up

SEO_Konsul - Id be interested in knowing where you got your information or are you just spouting off things youve heard somewhere else? Making statements without at least a reference to their source as a matter of fact is rather unprofessional in my opinion.

[DangerDave]

What Linkster said...

Backlinks(as is PR) has not been an accurate or total for many months.

DD
PS - and it has nothing at all to do with capacity!

[Bill]

I'm not talking about that, Linkster, of course I know about the big change in backlinks, the so-called "random backlinks" display, that started last year.

What I think the original poster sadman is talking about is a specific, very recent strangeness in the backlinks that started just this friday.

He's not the only one who has mentioned it, I've seen it mentioned on other seo + adult boards. Started a few hours before the bar went gray.

[Bill]

Oh, and the google cache server went down at the same time... for me it was sometime late friday night/sat morning.

And, I'm sure many of you guys have seen this, but it's interesting anyway...

The new ad for the new google toolbar has a graphic that doesn't include the PR meter on the bar.

http://toolbar.google.com/

This has caused a lot of speculation, too.

[Linkster]

Unfortunately they still show it in their features for the new bar
http://www.google.com/support/toolba...=features.html

The cache servers problem has been an off and on problem over the last week - my own opinion is they are testing a way to show an image of the pages indexed without caching - to help avoid 2257 and the new DMCA (coming soon) issues that the present system has

[Linkster]

Bill - the only difference I can see on the backlinks is that they have done a backlinks update to the "displayed" backlinks in the last few days - most of my sites show an increase although not anywhere near the real count