Slap that Penguin with Improved Backlink Reporting


With the sharp rise in link related penalties since the introduction of Penguin, getting a comprehensive list of your backlinks is vital. Unfortunately, it can take a variety of tools to get the complete picture and because Google understands that they've just improved their backlink reporting to be more representative of ALL of your backlinks instead of just listing the top 100,000 in alphabetical order. Here's how Google explained it:

"we're improving how we select these backlinks to give sites a fuller picture of their backlink profile. The most significant improvement you'll see is that most of the links are now sampled uniformly from the full spectrum of backlinks rather than alphabetically. You're also more likely to get example links from different top-level domains (TLDs) as well as from different domain names. The new links you see will still be sorted alphabetically."
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