I am in the Google directory and so are all my ads and pages... I am part of countless topsites and other recip link directories all with working valid links to me. The recip link directories are listed in google and I can see their links to me when I query www.mydomain.com BUT When I use the webmaster tools to see the links:www.mydomain.com it comes up empty. Anyone have any idea how to get this to show my links? Is it important? Isn't this part of the whole page rank thing? I am a little confused... Thanks gurus.
My advice, dont trust webmaster tools, I have found them to extremely inaccurate, saying Im not listed when I am , sometimes when Im top for a phrase they say I aint listed. Im one of those who does it the old fashioned way and just checks.
Google not showing all links by reason. You may get more accurate results if you do the same command in MSN, sometimes in Yahoo.