Matt Cutts from google was talking recently about how googles :link search didn't work, I though he made some good points, this was my reply.
If the :site search is random then why are the results of a search, always the same for a particular, except when a new one appears of course?
What makes some links always appear for a particular site and not others, and why whenever I blog about a site, does my blog ALWAYS show and stay as a backlink....in a :link search??? me thinks there's more to the :link search than meets the eye, I have never worked out what it is in particular, and many times it doesn't make sense at all, The one thing I agree with Matt is that if Google told what these links represented, then everyone would spam them.
I see a definite link between the number of back links in :link search and pagerank, but don't understand why some links in that search appear rather than others from the same site.
Lynny SEO Guru... self proclaimed
Regards Lynn
International SEO based in Hillcrest, San Diego, Southern California
