Need help regarding backlinks and google PR

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by zappster, Oct 7, 2005.

  1. #1
    I'm checking my backlinks on Google, Yahoo and Msn every day:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A//directory.zappster.com/
    http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdirectory.zappster.com%2F&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt
    http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdirectory.zappster.com%2F&FORM=QBRE

    On Yahoo and Msn everything is ok, the number of backlinks is ok, increasing almost every day.

    On Google, I have only 8 backlinks, which is unchanged for about 2-3 months. The same is with the PR.

    What am I doing wrong ?

    Thanks.
     
    zappster, Oct 7, 2005 IP
  2. Deano

    Deano Sail away with me.

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    I have a feeling (others can correct me if I'm wrong) that google only shows you the backlinks that are at/above PR4 and/or have relevant anchor text.
     
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  3. Old Welsh Guy

    Old Welsh Guy Notable Member

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    Google only show in their words 'a selection of backlinks' In other words, the google link:domain command is worthless.
     
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  4. izahan

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    I go to an online link popularity site to check for backlinks. I have seen sites that get thousands of links from MSN, Altavista, Yahoo etc. but ZERO from google. Maybe Deano is right about the PR thing.
     
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  5. ServerUnion

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    I feel the links that get shown on google are ones that have been statis for x amount of time.
     
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  6. Old Welsh Guy

    Old Welsh Guy Notable Member

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    I was there in person, when Matt Cutts of Google said (repeated ;) ) Google shows a selection of backlinks. he said they show a selection of the ones they know about, no PR value, no rhyme nor reason, just ' a selection of known links'.

    It s commonly accepted that Google disabled the client facing facility to make link mongering more difficult.
     
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  7. theduke56789

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  8. Old Welsh Guy

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    Google update backlinks on an irregular basis rather than monthly. The talk by Google was that eventually they hope to run onto a quarterly forard facing update.
     
    Old Welsh Guy, Oct 7, 2005 IP