internal back links

they don't always show

[dan_popescu]

Most of my competitors sites show internal links pointed to the main page as back links when you do a search for the particular site in Google. Mine doesn't. I was wondering why. Could it be because when I write my HTML code I build my internal links by pointing to page(index).htm and not [mysite.page(index).htm?...]

Does this make any difference in Google? I mean a competitor site shows say 200 links while mine only shows 28 when in fact we have about the same # of incoming links coming from other sites.

Thanks, Dan

[egomaniac]

Hi Dan,

Google will spider both relative and absolute urls, so that shouldn't be the problem. Most of the time relative urls are better - they load faster and are easier to maintain/update with some html authoring tools (e.g. Dreamweaver in particular).

Could your problem be that a lot of your internal pages have dropped in PageRank, whereas maybe your competitor's haven't? Check the PageRank of the pages that are missing from the backlink count. Are they PR 3 or below? If so, then they won't show up. Generally pages need to be PR4 or better to show up in the backlinks.

[dan_popescu]

Egomaniac
Yep. Your right. I do have a few PR4 pages that don't show either, most are PR3 though.

Thanks, Dan