Back links not being found
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I am working on optimizing a client site that was launched in January of 2011.
A number of back links are starting to show up when I do a competitive link analysis, however in Google WMT the only IBLs that are showing up are from the non-www of the domain, even though I have a 301 redirect from danwilson.ca to www.danwilson.ca (and has since the site launched).
I also have verified the non-www version with WMT and declared the perfered domain as www.danwilson.ca.
Any ideas why the non-www domain links are being shown as inbound links by Google WMT rather than internal links. This likely means the site is getting dinged for duplicate content...
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Lots of WMT data is worthless. Like previous poster, I am still seeing backlinks from a couple of years ago, as well as completely off total backlink count. You're much better of using OSE.
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Webmaster Tools takes years to update. It's data is more or less worthless for how out of date it is. I still have crawl errors last detected over 2 years ago that are not errors anymore. Still coming up. There was also a known bug recently with the inbound links, so that could be affecting things.
Either way, don't put too much credence in it, no one knows how often these figures are ever updated so Google is likely way ahead of what they are telling you in WMT.
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