it is the same as "www.yourdomain.com" it will give you all the instances of that domain as a phrase that it knows about. OWG
well, i have a very weird thing with my bw links. when i compare the bw links to the @ search i see that links are either on the bw or on the @ search but not on both and on the @ i have much more powerfull links like a link from dmoz, and its not a new link. on my bw links page i have very law rank sites...
hobbes, One of my main pages has over 700 actual links pointing to it. Google is "reporting" 118 links this time around and has also left out our dmoz and Yahoo directory links. What links Google actually gives a site credit for is the 8th Wonder of the World anymore. I personally believe that Google is having problems with their "new de-Stanforded" algo. think about it... The original Google algorithm was based on Page Rank. The patent for Page Rank is held by Stanford Univ. What company would "go public" with a product for which someone else holds the patent? Google is very busy re-inventing the wheel right now and it is making for a very bumpy ride. IMHO Caryl
Since you bring it up... When I search [Google] @mydomain.com I come up with 354 instances. When I search mydomain.com I come up with 1, my home page. Why the difference?
@www.domain.com gives the same results as any other discarded character followed by www.domain.com... I tried ]www.domain.com "www.domain.com and lots of others.. _ seems to be treated differently, so does - and &www.domain.com.... *www.domain.com is treated differently again, this does serve results. space with www.domain.com doesn't give any results though. Without the www tere are slightly more results. Seems like some characters are parameters, some delimiters and others just junk... Just my observations, haven't analysed it yet.
I have just tried @www.domain.com and "www.domain.com" and those two searches are returning the same results.
mcdar Do you think that the claim by some SEO's that Google only follow links for indexing if it is higher than PR3 or 4 is true and if yes certainly Google must work on an alternative for PR and how will that influence their algo. I mean PR still plays a major role?
NO, Google will follow all links. It was true for a long time that a search on Google for Backlinks to a site (link:www.yoursite.com) would only show links with PR4 or higher. BUT, that is not the case anymore. The main advantage to having a link on a Higher PR page is that Google visits those pages more regularly. (PR6 and higher are visited at least once, if not many times a day). The more times a page is spidered by the Google bots, the more likely it will be that your link will be recorded, if not followed. Just because a Googlebot visits a page, does not guarantee that Google will record the links on that page. I do not think that Google is working on an alternative to PR. I think they are working on a different way to determine a PR rating. (remember, this is just my opinion!) Caryl
Why is that? I thought the point of the search engines was to find useful information, and present it to users. If a link is found, surely it should be recorded (apart from links to banned sites of course) because it is probably a useful link for the user. Isn't that the whole basis of the Google strategy?
All bots are NOT created equal! Some bots go deeper than others. Some go to only a few pages on a site then leave. Why, it probably is just not practical to re-catalog the entire web each time around. I just don't know THE answer.