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Subject:  Yahoo Site Explorer vs. Google link:
Author:   AndrewSmith1:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   11:18:40 27 January 2007
 
You may also find if you follow the links in Yahoo! you cannot actually see any inbound links on the page. This, in my experience, seems to be because Yahoo! sometimes follows PPC links on the content network.

Use both tools since the links Google shows is an indication of what it wants you to see, whereas Yahoo! gives a much broader idea of your backlinks. In reality the actual figure is probably somewhere in between. Look at the ones which appear in Google and try to develop similar links.

For instance I have never seen Google show a backlink for us from any form of site which can be edited by a human (E.G a WiKi or a forum) however both of these types of links give us traffic and appear in a Yahoo! link: search.
 
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