Backlinks

I have backlinks which are not being picked up by google although the page they are on ha been spidered several times and the linking method is the normal html. The problem is that these backlinks are on links pages with 100's of links to other relevant sites and I am very low down on the pages as they are sorted alphabetically.

Is it possible that google only spiders "X" amount of links per page??

 

there was another discussion about this.

the short answer was: as long as the page isn't above 100KB, don't worry about being past a cut off point.

however, if the page isn't PR4 or more, it won't show as a backlink anyway.

 

ok.. but what if the Pages are PR5 and 6? I have backlinks that have been up for a few months now.. and still do not show up on google. I have a site with three PR8 pointed to it.. that are yet to show up.. why is that?

 

Make sure the backlink is not a javascript link. Also if they use redirected links and you won't get PR. Another trick they use is use robot text to not follow the links. You have to do view source and make sure you are getting real text links.

 

thanx for the tip eCommando

 

What is PR ? I assume that it's not public relations ::Grin::
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Thanks
Jack

 

Jacko, you really are green. Maybe your screen name should be kermit or leaf or something, LOL

Anyways I hope you find some answers here, although you may want to go through old threads first before asking a question that has been answered many times.

 

I have found in my experience that the sample of backlinks shown can have any PR, including 0.

I find the better way to search for backlinks is to search using: "+your-domain.com"

 

That's interesting. I have a site that Google reports 380 backlink to and when I tried +mydomain.com it returned 335 pages??????

 

Have you guys tried this tool to look at inbound links? http://www.webmasterbrain.com/website-link-popularity-checker-tool--tool4.htm

 

Yes that is right as far as I'm concerned. It would only find the term if and when it appeared on the page. Whereas with links using anchor text, or images with alt tags, the domain name is rarely visible on the page. So these two searches are totally unrelated.

 

When I use the "link:mydomain.com" in Google I get 9 pages returned.

Using "+mydomain.com" or "@mydomain.com" I get 185 returned, all have my URL in them.

I know that the "+" is not perfect but it gives me a more accurate picture than the selection of backlinks returned by the "link:".

By the way does anyone know what the "@" search means?
Thanks

 

what it "means"?

well, it's just where the url appeared, even if it's not a hyperlink..

if you mean why do they use "@," I have no idea.

 

I apologise I must be too tired to pose the question properly.

What I was trying to ask is what is the difference between the "+" search and the "@" search?

I am under the impression that the "+" means that the page must include the string.

 

I get the same results for both, so I doubt it matters much.

neither are listed on http://www.google.com/help/operators.html though

 

Yahoo! gives a pretty good representation of of links at the moment...

No Sandbox ; )

 

what shows with link: has nothing to do with the sandbox..

it's supposed to just be a sample. generally they only show PR4+ pages.