Backlinks not working

[jimbob2812]

I'm going to ask a stupid question, but how do the backlinks towards a site actually work? And how do they show up?

I have created several sites, and my main business one is <snip> This has a portfolio page with links to a selection of my clients.

Each client also has a page linking back to my main site.

However, when I enter the address of my main site or one of my clients in Google and then click for links pointing to this, I cannot see any backlinks in either direction.

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks

[edited by: Marcia at 6:15 am (utc) on Mar. 23, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLs or site names, please. [/edit]

[Marcia]

What's the PR of the sites, and how long have those pages been up?

[Hardwood Guy]

"However, when I enter the address of my main site or one of my clients in Google and then click for links pointing to this, I cannot see any backlinks in either direction."

A bit unrelated but I never heard it discussed before until I discovered it a few days ago. There's no need to spend time typing in links:yoursite.com for backlinks if you have the google toolbar installed. OR---maybe it only works with IE?

Right click on the page or the site in question and click "backlinks" Never did understand how they come up with related pages?

[jimbob2812]

Marcia - PR of my main site is 4. The client sites have PR of 3. I was expecting the backlinks to work in both directions.

Hardwood Guy - nice! Tried the "right click; backlink" thing in my IE and seems to work, and agree with you that it may just be IE as it does not appear in NN. My problem is that unfortunately there are still not the backlinks I am expecting, however, at least this technique works!

[abates]

Backlinks only seem to show up if the pages in question are higher than a certain PR (approximately 4, I'm lead to believe...) so if the links are on pages with PR 4 and below, they're not guarenteed to show up, but they *are* counted for PR passing purposes.

[jimbob2812]

Ok - that makes sense and reassures me as to why nothing is showing for my sites... Thanks everyone!