OutdoorMan - 9:42 pm on Jan 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

walkman > out doorman: how old is your site? Would you say it is linked by well known sites/authoritative ones? I am trying to see why some have them live, some generated only and somenot even generated by Google.

I have two niche sites: #1 was launched in aug 2006, #2 was launched in may 2007.

#1 has inbound links from 3 fairly authoritative sites (within this niche) and 2 authoritative (unrelated) sites. Also it has inbound links from a couple of libraries plus indbounds from several less important sites and a couple of unrelated directories.

Also it is ranked #1 for the main keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN SERPs.

#2 has an inbound link from my #1 site plus an inbound link from an unrelated authoritative site/directory. Also it has inbounds from Wikipedia (probably not any direct link value because of the use of rel="nofollow") and some less important sites and a couple of unrelated directories.