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Zeal links and google

         

hitthedeck

11:08 am on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Looksmart links dont show,
presumably this applies to zeal?
thanks

progen

2:51 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hi hitthedeck this link should explain it:
[webmasterworld.com...]

taxpod

3:03 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Note that Looksmart does not have the same element in its robots file. But the Looksmart home page is greybarred so I guess these guys don't like each other!

rfgdxm1

8:24 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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[looksmart.com...]

PR7 for me.

Mohamed_E

8:37 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Interesting ...

From my toolbar (version 1.1.66 delon/en) it is greyed out, and clicking on backward links gives:

Your search - link:http://www.looksmart.com/ - did not match any documents.

FWIW I have a line in my hosts file pointing to an alternate toolbarqueries host:

216.239.33.100 toolbarqueries.google.com

This might explain the greyed out PageRank, but not the result of the link: lookup.

hitthedeck

9:17 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have yet to see any backlinks show up in google for sites added to there directory(looksmart).
Looksmart has PR but the links dont appear to pass any on.
Dont know about zeal, ill just do some tests.

2_much

3:20 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I've only seen zeal results show in the "contain this term" request in Google. Perhaps they don't have enough PR? But do count?

annej

4:04 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Come to think of it I've never seen zeal in any of my backlinks yet I know some of my page are listed in zeal.

Anne

rfgdxm1

4:13 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Zeal's robots.txt prevents Google from spidering. However, Google can spider Looksmart by their robots.txt, and Looksmart is just a mirror of Zeal.

Eric_Lander

4:18 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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"Zeal's robots.txt prevents Google from spidering. However, Google can spider Looksmart by their robots.txt, and Looksmart is just a mirror of Zeal."

I think I may have some evidence to the contrary. Sort of. For an enthusiast site I started a few months back, it just got into Google. When I check backlinks, I've got none - but if I search for the name of the enthusiast group, the number one listing is a Zeal page.

That Zeal page is not a SERP, but it is transaction history report of Zeal... The Zeal URL is along these lines, with the query string removed:

zeal.com/category/transaction/_history.jhtml_

(EDIT: Too late for me, confused some words.)

speda1

4:27 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Zeal categories are served through /category/preview.jhtml
which is not currently disallowed in their robots.txt file.

They do a redirect with 2 query string parameters though.