Text Links versus Image Links - an experiment

[jojy]

Hello Everyone,

I have been experimenting text and image link on my three domains and here are the results. I put my X website link on A and B website. On A I put simple text link and on B I put image link including proper alt tag and title <a title="#*$!">. After 2 weeks I checked my site backlinks on google I found only A backlink, wondering why google did not include B backlink?

I did same search on Yahoo and it shows me both A and B backlinks. It appears Google ignores the image link but Yahoo does not.

My question is will I get link juice from both domains or just one?

Thanks

[youfoundjake]

I would wait a little longer. are you able to find the image via google images?

[jojy]

never wanted to list my site on google image :)

[tedster]

Google's public link reports are intentionally an incomplete sampling of all the links they know about and use in their calculations. The link: operator is noticeably incomplete, and the Webmaster Tools reports, though much more complete, are still limited. I'd suggest monitoring the Google cache to see if/when the version of the page with the link is indexed.

If the link exists, it's in Google's webgraph. How it gets weighted is another story. Here's what I've seen.

PageRank transfer, which is a query IN-dependent factor, seems to be the same. However, the text in an image's alt attribute, though transferring some query dependent juice, usually seems to be less that straight text in an anchor element.

[jojy]

@tedster: the links are in google cache, however I am unable to locate link in webmaster tools, the text link is right there.

From your comment I can now guess there is no or very little value of image links.

Like youfoundjake said, may be its good to see image in google images ;)