When I type link:mydomainname.com in Google I don't see any result, why?

[vikaspooja]

My other website is 4 years old and Page Rank 3. We are into business of design and development for 5 years and still we don't have any result from Google Searches. When I type link:mydomainname.com I don't get any result. What's the reason?

[KeriMorgret]

You still have only a small sampling with those major brands. You're probably seeing more because there are more links to sample from for the big brands.

[vikaspooja]

Dave, like Keri said Google came up with Webmaster tool to address all these issues. I believe it would be wise to use webmaster tool for our queries.

[vikaspooja]

Thanks Keri, I am following Webmaster mostly to check how Google sees my website but wondering why such search not working for me whereas it works for some very popular brands.

[KeriMorgret]

The link: command has been unreliable and has underreported links for years. Google's own help says it's a sampling of links to the site (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en). To see more links (though they still admit it's a sample), verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and they will show you some more links.

[CommT]

Webmaster tools will tell you what google is 'thinking'

[danwebman]

Hi Martijn,

Whilst I'd agree wholeheartedly with your response and they are both good places to see your inbound links. We always want to be watching what Google are doing with it's existing tools and they give us clues about what Google thinks is important.

What Vikas was asking is why the tool was acting like it did.

Best Regards

Dave

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Dave & Vikas,

I don't think the link command is the best one to figure out what kind of links you have. I only get 1k results for a site we have over 90k of links for. That's around a 1% coverage. Best would be to use tools like Google Webmaster Tools or Open Site Explorer by Moz to found out what kind of links you have and where they come from.

[danwebman]

The good news is that I now have a similar problem, we used to have hundreds of links now I have 6?! I typed info:eriks.co.uk and this gives you a number of links to choose. Even when selecting via this screen the same occurred.

Something must be happening at Google regarding Site Links I'm guessing, Moz?