And I think that that's a pretty good bala france business email list nce, because if you just automatically show a ton of backlinks for any website then spammers or competitors can use that to try to reverse engineer someone's rankings. Google themselves is telling us not to pay too much attention to the link command, but that doesn't seem to be stopping folks. Let the myth busting commence. Myth #1 - The Google Link Command Returns Accurate Numbers Nope.

Not even close. Google themselves say the numbers aren't accurate and that they're showing a small sub-sample. The numbers show this as well. Check your link counts with the Google link command vs. the number inside Google's Webmaster Tools (when you verify your account, you'll see them shown). Here's the stats for SEOmoz, for example: Google's link command for SEOmoz Google's link command claims 1,590 links. Let's see what Webmaster Tools says: Google's Webmaster Tools Link Count for SEOmoz Hmm.