I use a website to check my back links. Last week I was at 12 then I check again today and I'm at 342! Is this even possible or is something stuffing up on the website I use to check my back links?

I just checked and got a result of 21 so it looks like you had an error, unfortunately.

Hmm which method did you use to check my links Alan?

I'm getting quite a few websites that say I'm in the 300s.

http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_che...ooeasytech.net
http://www.smartpagerank.com/pageran...net&results=50

All say 342.

I used this:

http://www.submitexpress.com/linkpop/


Edit:

Oh, I see what's happening: the check I did is only showing certain SE links whereas yours is including all your forum links, etc. So yours is right as far as total links I assume.

I didn't realise the SubmitExpress thing was doing it that way...

Oh I see whats going on. with www. that site shows 792!

Without it shows 21.

Oh, well spotted! Wasn't sure why it was doing things differently, but that explains it.

And a bonus if that's more accurate and it's actually 792 instead of 342

I still don't understand, so with www. and without www. will bring different result?

Right! For some reason it gives a separate value to the two. That’s why it’s important to choose a URL and stick with it!

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As far as search engines are concerned a site with www and the same site without the www are two different sites.

amjonathan is right, stick with only one url to promote.

another way to check backlink is at http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

I like that one! Seems to be pretty accurate. The page views for my site is way off though. I don't get 583 a day! I wish.

Anyone know where it is getting the page view information?

As I understand, a vast quantity of the incoming links can be "crap links", which are scavenged automatically by many Youtube or Dmoz clones that exist today. They have a insignificant value, since those pages have not good PR, neither have good traffic, and neither they mean that someone is interested in your site, since the link was put by a spider. A site with 3000 incomig links can have PR 2 and 20 visitors per day. So quantity is not all the story.

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