questioning the path for respectable google position

[mike green 1276121]

i'm trying to realize which sites
get to be at top places,
and if i check the backlinks for websites such as
"example.com" with the google function
"link:www.example.com" at google search
and "link:example.co.il" i see that
all they have in common is hundreds of backward
links to articles inside the website itself
to it's homepage. by the other hand
most of this websites gets almost no links
from other websites. does this mean
we can build the pagerank by only creating
a "heavy loaded" site by rich context and
backward links to our homepage?
if so, why would this 'system' did not work for
website , such as:
"www.example2.co.il"
what is your idea about my theory?
any ideas anyone?

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 3:54 am (utc) on Mar. 16, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed specifics [/edit]

[DaveAtIFG]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld mike green 1276121! :)

Presently Google's "link:" command shows SOME of the backlinks to a site, not all of them, so it's not a very reliable indicator. AllTheWeb offers a much more accurate picture.

A search for "page rank explained" should give you a better understanding of PR. In order for a site to be prominent in Google it will need both incoming external links AND a sound internal linking structure.

From the charter [webmasterworld.com] for this forum, "Questions about links as used by specific search engines for ranking purposes should be put in that search engine's forum." Your questions are specific to Google so they really belong in the Google News [webmasterworld.com] forum. Do some reading over there, these questions have been discussed frequently and in depth. ;)