Google Missing Backlinks

If I search google for the text of my link (www. .com) it finds it about 170 times. Google only lists 4 backlinks. I have checked many of the linking pages, and they are true links to my home page, with both the link text being my home page, and the link itself being directly to my home page.

I also can see in the Google cache that google has searched and found these links.

Why is google missing them?

 

OK, then, another question. I have a page on my site which should rank relatively high against a given key word - the word appears multiple times in the text, it is in the keywords, it is in links, etc. The page has been scanned by google and is in the google cache, but I can't find this page anywhere in Google. The keyword is not that common, but I have looked through the top 900 sites or so in google (yes, page by page) and not found it.

Are there any other tricks? There are a few links to the site, and even one to this page, but I am not sure that google has recognized them yet.

Any recommendations? Is it just a matter of waiting?

 

Try this tool.

Do you have links from other sites to the page with the keyword in the link text?

 

This is not so anymore, sorry. Since the second to last update a couple of months ago, it has changed.

Please search on the varios topics, many of them leading me to write here.

Big change! Maybe they count but they, for sure don't show.

 

ETREUS,
Can you be a little more specific please?
I'm not sure what you're saying...

Thanks,
Mike

 

Speaking of Google missing links...

As of two weeks ago Google was reporting 43 backlinks to my site. At least ten were PR4 or higher. All of a sudden Google is only showing 1. My PR in the Google toolbar also dropped. Any ideas?

 

Google ain't showing just high PR backlinks anymore... they seems to show a mix of low and high links.... and not by a longshot all.... They seems to show just a few random backlinks.
To my site all high backlinks are invesible, just low PR links are viseble.

 

It can't be just random. There must be some sort of logic behind it - it's just that we don't understand "Google Logic"..... although does anyone?

 

How Google determines what counts as a link is not random, but what they report to the public as a links could very well be a random sampling of the links they know about.

 

Sorry, still disagree.

If it was completely random, everyone would be shoing massive swings in numbers and quality of reported backlinks.

Some people are showing no movement, or little movement.

Some of my sites have shown only increases in backlinks, and no disappearing backlinks.

If it was completely random you would expect some of the backlinks to have disappeared and been replaced by others.

 

I don't think it's random. It is only what they want to show.

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if Google decided to toss some randomizing into the back link alghorithm in terms of DISPLAYING back links. I.e. They have there own internal "complete" representation, but in addition to other factors, there is some "roll of the dice" in terms of showing 'em to you. Doesn't affect the SERP's, and "messes" with the SEO's.

 

"although does anyone?"

it's not like all of the algorithms and techniques are public source.

 

I think Google's slowly taking away 'all useful information' away from users .... for some reason. No proper BL info, no PR info ...... And, when's the next update gonna happen????

 

I agree. And I think the reason is that G wants to avoid that SEO people just follows a known formula to get highist possible ranking. If the ranking algorithms were perfect and excactly tuned for the Google vision of high search relevance being visitor friendly at the same time, the algorithms could be public. But they are not perfect...