Back Links?

do images count

[progen]

I've had a link on PR7 site for two months now but it does not show up when i check links on google.

<a href="http://www.widget.com" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.widget.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;"><img src="./images/widget.jpg" width="135" height="42" alt="widget.com" border="0"></a>

My question is do images count the same as text links and is there a required length of time before google recognises a link.

My link is on the front page of their site and the google cache of their site contains the link.

[progen]

I could have sworn i wrote 'this is the code they're using' above that code. Sometimes my thoughts get lost on the way to the keyboard.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Is that Javascript?

If it is, then most likely the spider won't follow the link so you won't see the backlink.

As far as I know googlebot can't crawl javascript links at the mo

[dazz]

looks ok to me progen, sometimes the links do seem to take a while to show up but just because its not a text link should not matter as I have a few image links myself that show on Google.

Have you tried to see if other SE's can see it as a link. Try Alltheweb.com as they seem to pick up links fairly quickly.

See if it shows up on Google after this update.

[jatar_k]

<a href="http://www.widget.com"

If the above snippet actually has your url in the non widgetized version then it should be fine.

[progen]

jatar_K: Unless my site is widget.com and this is just a cunning link drop.

dazz: Thanks it's not on alltheweb but altavista seems to have found it ok, cheers :)