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in one particular example, a site used to have dozens of incoming links from pages on sites that are of a totally different industry, and while the links are still up on these pages and the pages continue to be either pr4, pr5 or pr6, when you do a backlinks check on the receiving site, these incoming links are not being counted.
As it has been so long since a visible PR update this is definitely a possibility.
Also I am seeing nothing in my back links that agrees with the title of this topic.
Have you considered that this is probably an indication that the page rank of the site that you are counting as pr 6 has dropped below 4?
Laurenz
There would also be the reverse problem: links that are relevant could be ignored. Imagine the hypothetical Jane Widget links to Webmasterworld from her personal site. She does so because one of the types of work she does is website design. However, her personal site is devoted to her poetry, photography, etc. No search engine algo likely could pick this up as relevant. There is lots of this sort of linking on the web. Particularly amateur sites. Consider many blogs, and the links that often appear on them...
If you haven't read up on 'Local Rank' and 'Topic Sensitive PageRank' you will jump for joy when you do (or go and cry in the corner).
I really hope we get a full report from Google of backlinks next time, but that they adopt the method you mentioned and cut the list back to only what they consider 'relevant links.'
That would really get us webmasters heading in the right direction (IMO).
turns out links from all but one (not the homepage) of the pages on the site don't show up in a backlinks check .. interesting .. now to figure out why its counting from that page and not the rest.
...links that are relevant could be ignored. Imagine the hypothetical Jane Widget links to Webmasterworld from her personal site. She does so because one of the types of work she does is website design. However, her personal site is devoted to her poetry, photography, etc. No search engine algo likely could pick this up as relevant.
In the end, there's no perfect solution, but I'd prefer a robot which is not counting some potentially relevant links to one that counts millions of irrelevant ones.
I feel that, on average, results would be more relevant.
Laurenz
It's not. Don't waste your time on this. The backlinks Google displays mean nothing.
<Hey Googleplex, do y'all get all warm and fuzzy when you see threads like this? The backlink data is sadistic and mean-spirited. It is literally "doing evil" and should be changed immediately, despite the loss of face. It was a stupid idea and the longer you stubbornly cling to it the longer you cling to evil stupidity.>
Also the theme of links is NOT anything to do with the links they do show. It is impossible to establish theme between one site and another....... except at run time for a specific search. The search term is the 'theme'.
Yes, but is this really a relevant link?Who cares? In many cases the links that would most represent a 'true vote' for another page are not on topic. This is the case when someone links simply because they like a site or were happy they found it.
