Very busy time for me – not a lot of time for blogging. Today I found out that my main website, www.wordsinarow.com has gained PageRank in the most recent updates at Google. Those are being called the “Jagger” update and seem to mostly be concerned with backlinks. Wordsinarow.com is now a PR 6. (Woohoo! That and $3.95 will get me a Latte Vente at Starbucks.)
BTW, in my experience the “link:” command at Google has been busted for about the last year. To find out the number of links to your site, you need to do a search like this:
jmblog.com -site:www.jmblog.com
That gives you a list of all the pages Google has indexed that contain a link to jmblog.com (or at least a reference to it) except those pages from the site www.jmblog.com. You can get a fairly accurate sense of how many links Google “knows about” for any site by putting it in a search string like that. Replace jmblog in that string with any domain name and it will give you fairly good resluts.
