General Tyrant
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- Aug 21, 2010
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One of my website got over 9000 backlinks in yahoo but only 12 in Google.
Pun intended?
Anyway your question does seem valid but from what I've learned from this forum is that Google's algorithm doesn't act on whether backlinks exists or not.
The Google's algorithm calculates three things website's backlinks
in this order of significance (if they even get indexed):
1) The quality of the backlink (Page rank of the referring site or .edu, .gov)
2) Anchored text for the targeted keyword (I.E. Keyword - "Four slice toaster")
3) The number of backlinks
I outsource all of my backlinks so the way I see it obtaining links that look legitimate to Google costs more money since you have to build them up week by week. A simple xrumer blast will have you sky rocket through the ranks in days and it's cheaper but there is the big risk of Google sandboxing you...