Hello all, I've got a little investigation - I checked my backlinks with Yahoo Site Explorer the other day and was reasonably happy to find a couple of hundred after only a couple of weeks link building, but upon further investigation it seems that a substantial chunk is from a domain trevorweir.com? I searched all the links of the pages Yahoo was reporting back, but nothing.. Here's the links: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.how-to-build-a-website.co.uk&bwm=i My domain: http://www.how-to-build-a-website.co.uk/ If anyone can shed any light on this that'd be fab!
you had a link in recent comments on the sidebar... but as more people post comments your link disappears.
yes you had sitewide link that is why yahoo is showing so many pages from the same site having a link to yours.
Well i got the right answer for your problem, you have commented on any of the post on that blog i.e. trevorweir dot com right.....so now they have posted your name in blogroll in Author section so it appears on each & every post of their blog and that's why you get so many links from that site. I know this bcz it happens to my site also...tag44.com
Thanks guys - I guess there's pretty minimal value in these links then. Still, if there are some people who like the numbers then I suppose this is a perfect system. Incidentally, how can I find more blogs with systems like this?
There may be quite a lot of reasons for this. If you have submitted a comment in that website, there are plugins that show recent comments section in all parts of their websites. In this case when search engines crawls especially yahoo shows them as links. But all of them would be no follow so no use because of them. In consequent crawling they will be removed.