My questions relate to wordpress blogs and how the links are identified and then reported.

In a blog post that has 2 different links in the body of the article linking back to my site with different anchor text, which one gets reported as "the link" verses the one that doesn't? How is that determined because you never see more than one link reported back from a blog post on the SpyGlass report?

In Google blog search you can see articles that were posted just a few minutes ago, begin to show up very predictably shortly thereafter. Here's how I see them:

mywebsites weblog blogurl:http://mywebsite.wordpress.com

My question is why don't any of these show up in the SpyGlass report? From the very few that do show up, what determines which ones show up and which don't?

Lastly, what source does this report get its' information from? It can't be directly from the sites where the links come from because what I'm seeing in the report is some very old information such as old anchor text that was changed long ago which has never changed with more recent reports?

I'm trying to nail down how this all works so I can get out of the guessing game as soon as possible so any wisdom that anyone who reads this can give me is gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,

Lowell

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