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By this I mean following links in reverse.
Example: Go to a site, click the toolbar info button to see who links to it, then hit one of those pages, see who links to it and so on ...
Sometimes it seems that it's more interesting to follow links backwards than forwards.
So, anyone else gotten into this habit at all?
Mack.
But I have tried this on occasion when researching a topic (usually of personal, not business interest). It has helped me think in new ways about subjects/categories, has uncovered some helpful web sites I might never have stumbled on otherwise. . . and led down some interesting "rabbit trails"!
... then you start thinking things like "I wonder where their link sources are getting their links from" and so on ....
... and pretty soon you're surfing backwards. :)
... I am now playing with it. However, it says no-one links to us, which they do! Why would it say they don't?
It occured to me at this point that perhaps our practice of having one domain where the site is hosted, and advertising a different domain which matches the company emails, is a bad idea, and could affect our page rank etc. Our 'other' domain has two listed backward links, but no page rank...
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Helen.
1. Google's link: command only shows "some" of the links they know about, usually only PR4 or above and not always all of those. They don't make it TOO easy on us. :)
2. If you have a 301 redirect from one domain to the other, Google should merge them eventually and focus all the pagerank to the one left. Otherwise Google might treat them differently for a very long time, splitting your pagerank between them.
I have now changed this redirect to a 301 (it previously had a javascript redirect). Hopefully that should help matters.
I know it's slightly off topic, but it still concerns me having two domains which point to one site, I would rather have one and have all the email addresses match this.
