Question About Links

Possibly Stupid

[phantombookman]

Hi
I have links on other sites which point to my sites. I have put them on as standard clickable links i.e.
(a href="http://mysite.com") blah blah text (/a)

On a Google search of my mysite.com it will list these sites as 'containing the term' but does not recognise them as 'sites linking to'?
Google has clearly read the links but does not acknowledge them as links just text.

I wondered whether I had missed something obvious?
Regard to all
Rod

[AWildman]

What is the PR on those pages that are not recognized as linking to? If a page does not have at least a PR 4, I believe it won't count as a backlink.

[phantombookman]

Hi
many thanks for the tip, really appreciated. I will look into it immediately.
The pages could indeed have low PR as they are only basic link pages.
Regards
Rod

[phantombookman]

I have checked some of the pages and the PR on them is very low usually about PR1, as the pages only contain half a dozen links really.

Interestingly the page on my own site has just a little bit of text associated with some of the links and it rates PR3.

So possibly by fleshing out some text around the links I may get them up to the magical PR4?

Regards
Rod

[buckworks]

No, PR depends on links. You grow a page's PR by gaining more links TO that page.

[tedster]

Or you can increase the PR of a page by boosting the PR of the pages that link to it, or by having fewer links on that page.

The PR of a page depends on a formala that you can think of as "votes". A link from a page is a vote for the page it links to. That vote gets weighted by essentially two factors:

1) The PR of the page where the link appears
2) How many total links on the page (the page's vote gets divvied up)

There is some more math involved. You probably noticed that PR depends on PR. So this is a kind of "round robin" calculation that goes on until the PR values for all pages involved approaches a stable limit. This means there is a "damping factor" that makes sure that PR caluculations DO appraoch a limit.

But these two rules are the essence of Google's PR. So the way to boost PR is either get more links, or raise the PR of the pages where the links occur, or have fewer links on the linking page.

However, always remember that the PR value of a page is only part of the algorithm that determines the order of search results. And the PR reported on the toolbar is not to be taken as gospel, just an estimated value.

[phantombookman]

Hi Guys
thanks for the advice, much appreciated as ever.
I have a slight problem with links, in as much as the 2 sites that I am concentrating on I want to keep independent, so do not really want links to other sites (only directories of course).

I am not too hung up over PR as I have put a lot of time into titles and keywording.
This has resulted in many #1 postions on Google for likely search terms related to me.

Indeed I got a #1 hit on a page with PR1
Thanks again
Rod

[thehittmann]

the link checking on google sux
i have pages that link to me that have pr 7,6,5,4 that do not show as links at all....or containg text.