[dragonfly]

I notice that google only reports links to the homepage of a site with the link:

However people often link to the exact page that is relevant to them. How can I get google to report all pages from a site that have links etc.

Secondly is there value in linking to something like

http://www.dragonfly-services.co.uk/...rier/reliable/

rather than just the home page.

My thinking is that the keywords are much better in the example.

[RedEvo]

Use the Yahoo site explorer to review your links or Google Webmaster Tools.

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[dragonfly]

Yahoo show 150, and WMT shows 931.

[nass]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

I notice that google only reports links to the homepage of a site with the link:

Hmmmm, that's actually not entirely accurate - the link command works for any page. But when you're doing link:www.yoursite.com you're actually doing link:www.yoursite.com/index.html - ie one page (the homepage, which if it's an apache web server will be index.html by default). If you had a page www.yoursite.com/lollypop.html then doing the command link:www.yoursite.com/lollypop.html will tell you the links coming into that lollypop.html page.

But! important caveat! Google's link: command doesn't actually tell you every linking page Google knows about but just a sample of them! And there's no way to do one command which tells you every link into every page - for that use Google's webmaster tools or take a gamble that it's approximately the same as Yahoo's site explorer results.

[jbladeus]

To see an accurate picture of the incoming links and also to see link for inner pages of your website, you need to create an account with Google's Webmaster Tools service.