Why so many backlinks not considered by Google ?

Hi,

I hope I'm not asking a stupid question but I need some help

I've got this website: www.ebook-gratis.it which is an italian directory for free ebooks and technical documentation. The site is doing great and in Italy is ranked in the first page for most of its keyword so I've not much to complain about.

The thing I really don't get is the inbound link given by Google. Doing a quick link:www.ebook-gratis.it I only got 29 links showing.

Within these results I can't see any of the links coming from other sites in the network (top bar on the site) they're all PR4 and quite related as topic. I also can't see the link from OnAjax (www.onajax.com) which is a PR5 nor from www.techbook.it another PR5.

I understand that link with low "trust" are ignored by google but I dont think an old PR5 is so trustless.

Could it be that Google recognize these sites as a network and ignore them ?

Thanks alot for any hint you can give me !!
Div

 

One of the reason for this might be the location of your link. Take note that PR is a per page rating. If your link is in the innermost part of a site, it will not show faster in checked in google (or will not show anymore), google needs to crawl first the page where in your link is located.

You can try checking it at yahoo, if it's listed in yahoo, I'm sure it'll be listed in google too, soon...

 

I don't think that could be the problem, the link are present in the homepage of the various site and in many pages with PR4.

Also some links are more than one year old. Some of them yet are on the same server/IP of Ebook Gratis ... maybe this could affect ?

Thanks

 

Because they only want to index the top quality ones, why who knows!

 

Google is well known (and they admit it) for not showing all the back links to a site. I believe they fear to much of smart backengineering. You get different (better but still not complete) listings if you use their webmaster tools.

 

Why so many backlinks not considered by Google ? Yeah specially link farm.

 

Google have never been generous on what links they show you. Dont worry.

 

Not all links will be shown by google, normally this is done, because the low quality of some backlinks you get.

 

My viewpoint is similar to that of monfis. I think G randomizes things to make it difficult to do reverse engineering. Even their application of penalties appears to be random.

The data that we can see and the data that they have are two differnt things. Don't be concerned about the low number of backlinks that appear witn a link query. You can see all of the backlinks to each page in a site if you sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools.

 

Yep. Google like to keep there secrets very secretive. Even though I hate it, it's a good business decision.

Col

 

it cld also be that G's spiders have not gotten round to these other sites after your backlink was added. It takes time and don't jump to conclusion too soon. If your links are placed on influential and quality sites, you shld get the backlink eventually....

 

Google just select the "quality" ones. Sometimes other links that are lately indexed by Google can appear in the next update

 

why is this thread still going? I thought we answered all these questions....

 

Maybe some of the members are very new, they could not look for related threads because the forum is very big, therefore they would ask.

 

Depends. If your backlinks are not of similar theme, has a low PR or even too many links on the page where yours is, G may not value it much.