Well, it’s perfectly self explanatory… It means that Google Blogsearch has not found any links to your site yet. What’s so difficult to get about that?
Click the “See All” link to go straight to Google and find out for yourself.
It may be self explanatory to you, Otto 42, but despite two graduate degrees, I’m afraid it isn’t to me. Have pity. Code may be poetry to you, but to me, poetry is poetry, and code is Greek. It’s not that I don’t believe my eyes, but I simply don’t understand, as hard as it may be for you to believe. When I click the “see all” it shows that there are no links from “google blogs”, of course, and next to that, under “google web,” it shows there is one link (from fantastic fiction), but I still don’t understand.
What does the reader or user have to to make the “incoming links through Google blog search,” and how is that different from putting me in their blogroll or quoting me with a link? I’ve also now got another site that’s going to run my blog on their site, as in syndication. Will that put “incoming links in my Google Blog search?” I’m afraid a lot of this stuff is simply incomprehensible to me. If I could find a class or something, it would really help.
I still fail to see the source of your confusion… I don’t understand what you don’t understand about it. It’s not about having pity, it’s just that there’s nothing else to it beyond what it obviously is. I don’t know what more I can say about it because everything it is is right there… It’s very up front and obvious.
Look, that box shows all the links to your site that Google Blogsearch knows about. If it says that there aren’t any, then that means that Google Blogsearch doesn’t have any. If and when Google finds some links to your site from a blog, then they’ll show up there.
And that’s it. That’s all there is to it. There’s really nothing more to understand here. There’s nothing you can do, there’s nothing to be done about it. You don’t do anything. The whole point of that box is to let you know that somebody linked to you that you didn’t know about. If you already know people who linked to you, then you don’t really need them showing up there.
Frandorf, I understand your frustration. Google can get really confusing at times (not that I understand it much either). Take a look at these different back linking stats I have, all collected at the same time…..
Basically, what that means is that Google Blog Search hasn’t recorded any back links.
Like Otto42 says, it doesn’t mean much, as Google Blog Search is not the one whose back links do anything to your rank or traffic or anything, it is rather disappointing to not have so many links you have not visible to their spider.
One drawback to this is obviously, if there are links to your blog you don’t know about, this is unlikely to help you find them, which kind of defeats the purpose of its being there….
Try the Technorati Incoming links plugin…..
Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about it, so it might be best to ignore it.
