About a month ago, we reported Google Blog Search Link Command Now Scanning Blogroll Links. In short, using a link:www.seroundtable.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements. So finding out who linked to you within the body of their content, just got a lot harder.

Vanessa Fox noticed a Google Groups thread where Googler, Jeremy Hylton confirmed this new behavior. But Jeremy also said they will institute a fix so that the link command, while in blog search, won’t be returning results found in blogrolls or “exclude the content that isn’t really part of the post.” Here is Jeremy’s post:

So we can hopefully see Google change the behavior early next year. I personally cannot wait!

Forum discussion at Google Groups.