Links Pages Affecting PR

Links pages dropped from Google

[GoggleEyed]

Hi

I have recently heard that links.html or links.htm pages are now being ignored by Google.

I cannot find any information to back this statement up but have noticed that a few of my websites have recently lost PR.

Can anyone shed any light on this phenomenon?

Thanks

GoggleEyed

[Telco_Guy]

I have noticed recently that links to my site from pages named link.**** don't seem to show up in my backlinks. I have also noticed that links from my links.aspx page are not being counted on the other sites. I have recently tried an experiment by renaming my links page to resources.aspx to see if this would cause it to show up.

[cbpayne]

There have been threads on this before ...

I have a page named links.htm - its shows up in the Google backlinks of sites it links to....

[steveb]

There are threads on this. It seems the large majority of these pages don't show as backlinks to other domains (they do internally), but they do sometimes.

[Stefan]

Agreed with Steveb. I see it on links out from our PR5 "links.htm" page. They don't show as backlinks for the linked-to sites.

If you are creating a new "links" page, it might be better to call the file, title, something else, (external, friends, bobs-your-uncle, whatever).

But like Steve said, it doesn't seem to be a 100% effect.

[nanocet]

<<<If you are creating a new "links" page, it might be better to call the file, title, something else, (external, friends, bobs-your-uncle, whatever). >>>

i think you should name it "sausages"

[Stefan]

i think you should name it "sausages"

Yes, that's a good one.

That's the way sausages were meant to be, all linked in long chains that you could coil over your shoulder for the trip back from the butcher. These days, they're all in stupid little plastic packages, in individual cells, isolated and un-sausage like. And they call it "progress". Bloody fascists.

[sit2510]

>> I have recently heard that links.html or links.htm pages are now being ignored by Google.

No, this is not true. Google does not ignore pages simply because of file names such as links.html or links.htm; that's too cheap for the G's engineer to think off. Intention...Either you name the page as links.htm, resources.htm, directory.htm, or sausages.htm - there are no differences among them because your intention is still the same and that is to place the links on that page.

>> I have noticed recently that links to my site from pages named link.**** don't seem to show up in my backlinks. I have also noticed that links from my links.aspx page are not being counted on the other sites.

If you have also seen links from PR4 or PR5 pages such as resources.***, directory.***, or sausages.*** not being shown as backlinks, then you will not be surprise that link.*** may also have the same effect.

[Jakpot]

Is there a serious problem with Google's crawl now?

[vnsampat]

Agreed,
a lot of pages with the name links.asp, links.php, links.htm and links.html do not show up as backlinks, even though in some cases their PR is as high as 6 or 7.

I have been noticing this happening for quite some time now.