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Checked about 20 other sites...no change.
Seems like something is going on. Perhaps it's true that there won't be any more mega updates. Just ongoing minor changes.
Of course I did this on my site when it was new, but do you all really keep track of all your backlinks on your established sites? Or do you just look through the list for your important backlinks?
If you do keep track that closely, what is the advantage?
I'm going to bed.
If you do keep track that closely, what is the advantage?
On July 25th 2003 a PR7 site (as reported by toolbar) added 2 links to 2 of my sites. Today one of the sites shows the backlink, but the other doesn't. Both are PR 6 sites, similar in nature but selling slightly different products.
So can anyone explain why Google shows one of the new backlinks but not the other?
Looking at 100 common SERP's it appears both sites have seen the benefit from the added links, but they are reported incorrectly by Google.
Looks to me like the link: and the Toolbar are now fairly useless (totally inaccurate).
The people that do this, and yes there are lots of them, are the scum of the earth. I monitor them regularly and kill them immediately upon it occurring.....which happens frequently.
I killed two today and just for fun (okay revenge) will spend several hours going after their market share to teach them a lesson.
I hate people who provide temporary reciprocal links....they are worse than email spammers....and deserve everything that is coming their way!
I encourage all other webmasters to be equally malicious when you find this kind of scum trying to manipulate you!
I rarely get upset/emotional about web behavior, but this activity is the lowest of the low. These rats need to be killed ASAP.
What is unusual is that a site with backlinks that no longer exist (since April) is now in front of one of our main sites. The non-existent links are still showing as backlinks.
If there is something going on then hopefully Google will update these stale links.
Therefore, these stale links you talk of TropicalIsland may not be being factored in - when in fact some newer ones are that are not yet visible?
It's all guess work at the moment
That would logically explain what's happening to our results however the one site I'm referring to is not likely to have picked up replacing links and yet they remain highly placed. We are talking a total of 13 links of which they lost 3 of PR4 & PR5. In the meantime we have gained many more PR4+ links. We were ahead of them until this morning when we reverted to our second page posistion where we were back before all this upheaval started.
GG shows new links on new websites, including the internal links.
The positions have not changed for the site. However a few updates ago the site did have about 100 backward links, then there was the update that saw a huge reduction on links for all sites. This site went down to 8, and it is now back up near 100.
I am also seeing some other sites with PR 3s now, which previously had 0s, as they were new sites.
Perhaps this means that there will never be another update, but Google will slowly include new links, and alter Pageranks, and do the odd shuffle in rankings a few times a month.
After that, I couldn't replicate the results all day.
I think I now have a reason to at least do it occasionally.
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Backlinks are confirmed updated on CW, GV & FI. It is very inaccurate to check your backlinks from Yahoo because Yahoo fetch results randomaly from a google datacenter.
