I have observed that when I submit to 200 article directories , initially the link count goes up , but after some time the SEs (Google and MSN) detect that the article is common to all 200 directories and the count in " link: " function starts going down. Yahoo tends to show all links separately. Yes I know I will get traffic from 200 sites and I also know I can make small changes in articles to differentiate them but my question is If I submit the SAME article to 200 article directories - SEs count them as 200 links or just 1 link?
Well, Google wouldn't show 100% of them anyway, but are you sure the page which your link appears on isn't being deindexed?
What you are probably seeing is the article headlines being picked up on the 'recently submitted' list, google goes back at a later date, and yur headline is not there as there are new 'recently submitted' so the count drops.
Right now the problem is with more with MSN...Google updates backlinks after long time anyway. Whats your experience with MSN for your article directory...does MSN drop pages frequently? I have lost around 70% of the links in MSN for some domains. For example, I have this domain (ignore the content...I just wrote it up to fill the page). www.rightarticle.com. At one time the backlink count in MSN was 140+ (all from article directories. I have submitted two articles to 200 directories each).....it is going down each day and is now at 45. On the other hand Yahoo count is going up each day and is around 180. Recently submitted lists usually dont have the resource box anyway..it is usually only on the article page. The article going out of recently listed should not affect the backlink count, unless of course the page gets deindexed.
Don't worry about what the link: commands say. You know your article has been listed in loads of directorys and you can visit and verify the links at each site. Just because the links don't show up doesn't mean they are not counted.
and I have noticed similar thing - I regularly submit press releases to many PR websites (altered version for each separate site), but the more different press releases I submit to the same site the less number of links are shown in SEs. Does search engines drop multiple link to a website from different pages of the same domain? Has anybody else the same problem?
If you are talking about Google then Google only counts links with a decent PR 2 or 3 atleast. Akash Kumar
Sorry that is incorrect. Google counts links on any page that it deems is worthy of being cached. It used to be the case a long time back, that only PR4 or above backlinks would bbe displayed, but for the last 2 years or so, Google has only displayed what they refer to as 'a selection' of backlinks. PR has nothing to do with it.
Ya I know that now Google displays other links too but Google while giving rankings takes in count the decent PR links only. Akash Kumar