What is Considered "A Site That Links to Mine"?

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What is Considered "A Site That Links to Mine"?

Natashka

2:41 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

Or better, why sites that DO link to mine are not considered as such? In my case, there are a lot of sites that link to mine and these pages (with my link on it!) are already indexed by Google. Nevertheless, those links are disregarded by some reason, and as a result my PR won't move.

In other words:
when I search in Google:
Find web pages that contain the term "www.mysite.com"
a whole bunch of sites show up.
when I search
Find web pages that link to www.mysite.com
only few show up.

Why doesn't Google treat this "term" as a link? Just want to add that I do a legitimate link exchange with sites ON MY TOPIC and not some stupid guestbook spam :)

Geetu

6:29 am on Dec 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hey, the right way to find out which sites google considers that link to you is to type

link:http://www.mysite.com

MHes

11:30 am on Dec 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Google have stated that the link: command is just a snap shot of links to your site. Some high pr and low pr ones will not show, but are still probably being counted. The toolbar pr is hopelessly out of date and unreliable.

Macro

1:27 pm on Dec 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hey, the right way to find out which sites google considers that link to you is to type
link:http://www.mysite.com

Yes. But do it in Yahoo/alltheweb. Google's link: feature is "broken"/disabled.

Natashka

1:52 am on Dec 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your answers. I suspected there was smth wrong with Google's "link:" feature. I'll check it in Yahoo.

But I didn't know that the toolbar PR is out of date! Does it mean that my PR can be actually higher than what I see in the toolbar?

Stefan

3:31 am on Dec 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Try this with Google. Type it exactly as shown, with the dots

.yourdomain. -site:www.yourdomain.com

It's not perfect, but it will show a lot of them.

And as noted above, the G link: command became useless several months ago, so absolutely ignore it.

grandpa

4:51 am on Dec 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Does it mean that my PR can be actually higher than what I see in the toolbar?

It means that the PR you see in the toolbar is useless. Could be higher, could be lower, could be anything in between. For all I know it could be my competitors true PR. It's not worth basing any decision upon.