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Also i am very confused about back links seach via link:www.some-site.com.
When i do a normal search in Google i find many sites that have a back link to my site in normal a href format. But Google shows a very small percent when i do a search with link:www.my-site.com. When is this database if any kept by Google updated. What logic is used for a back link by Google.
Where can i get a windows text browser similar to that used by Google. (I think its called Lynx). Will it be helpfull if i used it to see how Google actually views my site.
Thanks.
nileshkurhade, I really don't want to get in to the semantics of the Google 'Dance,' but I maintain a log on all the Google 'Updates' (start of backlink changes), and many of my sites change PR within a few days of each update (the ones that change at all during that period).
It's been 15 days since the last update. The prior 3 updates were as follows:
Aug - Aug 29
July - Aug 8
June - June 15
With all the algo playing G has been doing lately, it is unclear whether or not this will continue.
The BIG question is how much Google weighs PR in its algo these days.
I believe this is the right option:
>> 2) After 2-3 days or More
- with an emphasis om "More", especially when it is about going from zero to some PR (it can easily be (a) week(s) or more). On the other hand there is much talk about that the PR that we see using the G Toolbar is not the same PR that Google uses internally. I don't know if this is right or not.
Fact is that PR does not mean much these days. At least not the PR we see in the Toolbar. Pages can get included in the index and rank really high the day after they are published, but the toolbar PR value can be zero anyway.
>> Lynx - link: [lynx.browser.org...]
Lynx is not the same browser Google uses, as the Googlebot (the google spider) is not a human being. It does not see your pages and the visuals (pictures, colors, fonts) have no effect at all. Lynx is similar to a spider because it only shows the raw text of a page, and the raw text is what the spider is interested in.
>> Will it be helpfull if i used it to see how Google actually views my site
Yes. It is good to see how much of all the work you put into your pages are really interesting to a Search Engine spider. It will help you focus on the essential.
/claus
But nobody has mentioned much about back links.
Thanks again.
rfgdxm1 said all there is about it. Google just don't show them all, you must use Alltheweb if you want to find them.
It's true that a plain search for pages containing you url will show more pages than the "link:" search.
/claus
Dave.
