How to Make Google Include All the Internal Links?

[helpwithseo]

Hi,

We launched our website recently. I found our website has 150 back links, using link: command in google. And our main competitor's website has more than 1200 back links. But the thing is all of our 150 links are from external web sites. But for our competitor most of the 1200 links are from their own website. I think google is taking into account links like 'Back to Home page' links and link to the main page in the footer of every page. Even we have those kind of links in our pages. Why google is not considering ours? The only difference is most of their pages are .html and most of our pages are .aspx. Does it matter? Can any one tell me how to make google include all the internal links.

Thank you.

[treeline]

Google doesn't include all their backlinks being used in the results of the link: command. So your links probably are being counted, just not showing. Generally they show them at PR4 and above, but not always. They count a lot more than shows. TO get a clearer picture, try searching alltheweb.com, they show many more backlinks usually.

[jk3210]

>>Why google is not considering ours?<<

They do. They just don't show all of them when you use the link: command.

[helpwithseo]

Well I don't understand. When I type link:oursitename in google, it returns 154 links. I browsed through all the links and all are from external web sites.

But for our competitor's website, most of the links it returns are like ourcompetitorsitename/abc /xyz .html

I dont understand when you say all our internal links are considerd but not shown? It returns 154 links and I dont see any thing like oursitename/ abc .html in that list of 154.

Thank you.

[treeline]

The Google link: command doesn't do what you think it does. It used to, but they changed it.

Now, link: shows some links but never all links.

Check the pagerank on your pages. It's probably pagerank 3 or less. Google counts all links, but only shows some of them with the link: command. Now check the competitor's pages. Probably most of them showing as backlinks have pagerank of 4 or higher. This helps them to show on the link: command. However, all your pages and links count for searches, they just hide them from the link: command. Why?

Webmasters used to check a competitors backlinks and then try to get all the same ones. Google made this harder by changing the command to be less inclusive.

If you want a tool that does what you expect from link: then try www.alltheweb.com

[coconutz]

The results displayed when using the link: command are not all inclusive. These results are only a sampling of the links pointing to the page. Just because a link is not listed doesn't necessarily mean it's not indexed and counted.

If you're interested in seeing just your internal links, I'd suggest another search engine such as Yahoo.
link:http://www.yoursite.com site:www.yoursite.com

>>Now check the competitor's pages. Probably most of them showing as backlinks have pagerank of 4 or higher.

Google no longer displays only those links of PR4 or higher, it's almost the opposite. Google has been displaying a larger percentage of the lower PR links.