Using Glync with your Webmaster Tools
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Last week, Virante released glync, a free downloadable compliment to the external links portion of Google’s Webmaster Tools. While even without glync, you can see your backlinks, glync will give you a visual representation of the number of incoming links you have over time. Plus, with the pro version (estimated at about $5 per month), you can see the PageRank of each page linking to you.
Here are the number of incoming links for this blog for the past five days.
Just below, you’ll see your pages with the number of external links pointing to them. Again, you can upgrade glync and see the PR of each page on the left.
Clicking the number of links will direct you to a list of of the pages that link to you.
Glync definitely enhances your Webmaster Tools experience. But the question is: will Google actually tell you how many backlinks you actually have? According to Webmaster Tools, I have 1,054. Using the link:mysite.com command on Google, I only have 7; and using Yahoo’s Site Explorer, I have 1,017. So does that make Webmaster Tools’ number the right one?