Does Google index links separately to pages?

[Alex556]

Hi,
I have just added some new pages to my website and was suprised at how quickly these new pages were indexed with Google and appeared in the search results - but I noticed that when I searched for pages that linked to the new pages, Google showed no results.
All the pages on my website have links to the new pages and this shows in Googles cache of those pages.
Does this mean that Google indexes links to pages differently to how it indexes the page itself - should I expect these links to be indexed in the future?

Also in the results page I noticed that the url which is displayed for some of the pages has an extra space where there is none [ie. (...are.co.uk/ serve...) where it should be (...are.co.uk/serve...)]. It still clicks through okay but I wondered if anyone else has noticed this on thier pages.

Any suggestions?

[doc_z]

Hi Alex556 and welcome!

Some reasons why Google isn't showing the backlinks:

- It takes some time until backlinks were shown. The time when they will taken into account (for the ranking algorithm) is much shorter than the time until they were displayed (using the link command). Backlinks and PageRank are not updated very often. (Last update [webmasterworld.com])

My experience is that backlinks are taken into account before they were displayed but not at the time when the page (with the link) is spidered or updated. However, I don't think that they are indexed separatly.

- Googles doesn't show all backlinks. Pages with too low PageRank aren't shown as a backlink.

The extra space in the URL was discussed several times. You can find these threads using the site search. Here is just one of them: Strange space in SERP URL displayed
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