Google.com showing as backlink provider in Webmaster Tools?
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Hi Everyone
Looking in the 'Links to your site' section of webmaster tools today and my top backlinking domain is google.com which is apparently giving me 113 links.
The second top referring site is googleapis.com which apparently isn't even a site when I type it into my browser?
Does anyone else get Google.com as a site linking to them? and why would Google be linking to us, where would these links be coming from?
Any info appreciated
Regards
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Ahh yes! I've found it now, forgot I could click on the links to get more info, thought it would just take me to the site.
Turns out most of them are coming from Google Plus which kinda makes sense now.
Thanks
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I get lots of links from Google sites, orkut, productforums, groups, plus, app
If you drill down you can get the details.
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