anam32 - 3:14 am on May 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks so much for the welcome and replies :-)

Startup, I followed your advice and checked out the linkbacks on those dead pages. The #1 shows links back from a couple of categories at Yahoo that it's in. The #2 (long-dead with all 404's) shows a few links back to its own self and a link from a UK newspaper. Neither of them are showing linkbacks from any other sites. So just this is enough to keep them where they are in Google all this time?

I was reading the other thread about SJ and when I put my terms in there, my new site shows at #2. I won't start all that debate again in this thread, but I do hope it means I'll be listed in 'regular' Google soon...and hopefully at that position, if not #1 :-)

EDIT -- I stand corrected. I think I was searching the linkbacks using SJ. Just checked the #1 site at 'regular' Google, and it shows absolutely no linkbacks at all! I know that that site has been in Google since at least early 2000 with no changes at all, and doesn't even have any real type of optimizing on it, not even a META description. It's a single Tripod member page - does Tripod keep it boosted somehow?

[edited by: anam32 at 3:18 am (utc) on May 3, 2003]