Link from 'Links' pages not being credited?

Have been waiting for quite some time now.

[napoleon bona part 2]

Hi everyone!

I gathered some links for one of my sites that I am optimizing these days and most of the sites linked to me from links pages. For quite some time now, I haven't seen any difference at all to my rankings. Earlier I thought that since some pages are PR 0 so it will take some time for the link text to be factored in, but not all the linking pages were PR 0 and besides, it's been quite long now. Some people, including me, have thus begun to feel if google is found a way to make out what links are coming from links pages (may be it checks if there is any content on the page in addition to the links. If there isn't, it's a links page). Any thoughts?

[Dave_Hawley]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling :o)

Dave

[napoleon bona part 2]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling :o)

Dave, I'm sure most people here know that the sky is not falling. It's just for the benefits of nuts like me who are not all that smart as you are and run shouting "sky is falling!" I thought I should make known that the sky above me is just there and so I regret the alarm I raised.

[mil2k]

As mentioned by others there was a phenomenon last month when "links.htm" or links.htm or similar page names were not being shown in the Link:www.site.com search . It was not any industry specific as i remember at least 10 or more WW members searching for backlinks. One of them found only 1 backlink with "links.htm" and 600 which were not shown.

It certainly does not mean "links.htm" were not being counted for Pagerank. That is because the links pages did have PR on them.

To see what a penalty is like try this search query in google :-

allinurl:themeindex.htm

Look at the PR of these pages. I would be surprised if you would find any PR on those pages. HTH :)

[Dave_Hawley]

Dave, I'm sure most people here know that the sky is not falling

Wanna bet? :o)

[Fiver]

I'm still seeing this issue

Are there some kind folk out there who would check to see if they are being credited for links to their site coming from pages named specifically 'links.htm'

by credited (don't go all semantic crazy on me people) I mean having those links show up in a link:serp

[jim_w]

>>Google loves links between 'like' sites so this would go completely against their methodology.<<

Agree. It has been said here many times, and I believe by 'The Google Guy' that you should just make your site user friendly to your visitors. Having all related links on one handy page for people learning about your subject makes it much easier for them to find additional information on what they are looking for. Now maybe if there are 10,000 links on one page, that could be a RED flag.

[edit] changed finds to find. Sped tpng ya know! [/edit]

[airpal]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling :o) ......

... For Me to Poop On!

[DerekH]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling :o)

This is just scare tactics.
The earth is rising.
DerekH

[Rizzo]

I am very new to this seo stuff. I taught mydelf how to make a webpage about a year ago. Then I started trying some seo for the site. I have worked really hard to find links for my site. I have found many that have linked to my site. Now with this new update google is only showing 18 links. I had a lot more than that before. Today I have gone through to check that my links are still there, and most of them were. Is there a reason why G only shows 18 backward links? Help? I have no clue why the other links aren't being reported.

My site was one that dropped dramatically. I know it will take me a while to get it fixed, but if anyone here with more experience can share their knowledge with me, I would be grateful.

[bignet]

Google as far as i know only shows linx from pr3+ pages

and it takes a while (in weeks and months) for linx to be updated in serps

[bignet]

see this [webmasterworld.com] regarding open directory linx update
just to give you an idea about how long linx update can taek