Incoming links: how do I know

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  danielkraus · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 3:23 am

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  I know I have incoming links from blogs outside of wordpress, but none show up in my ‘incoming link stats.’ Do I need to refresh this or is there another reason they don’t show up? Thanx.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 5:16 am

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  That feature relies on Google Blog Search and only picks up where your blog has been linked in someone’s post (not their blogroll).

  Up until now my “Incoming Links” box in the Dashboard displayed about 5 or 6 links and just within the past day it dropped to the most recent one, so I’m curious about this myself.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 6:37 am

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  Incoming links from websites rather than blogs will not show up there, either. If someone’s coded their own blog from scratch, it probably isn’t counted, for instance.

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  danielkraus · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 12:27 pm

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  Thanx all, this helps a lot!

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  emealsforyou · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 12:36 pm

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  This is interesting, does this, raincoaster’s reply, effect the stats as well?

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  boblets · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54 pm

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  I imagine you’d get it in the “referrers” links when someone clicks on your link in pages like that, but you wouldn’t get a “incoming link”.

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  emealsforyou · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 1:11 pm

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  Thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 17, 2008 at 10:08 pm

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  It also wouldn’t do a thing for your Technorati ranking; Technorati counts only links from blogs.