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It's a case of a little knowledge being useless, and the certainty that my brain is barely larger than a goldfish, so I'd really like to find a simplified "by numbers" explanation and instruction source.
All advice welcomed.
If I do the "link:" thing on my web site I find that the main listings are links to my own web pages, but they are not visible hyperlinks in the way I understand them. It's not ALL pages, actually only a couple of dozen, so would the web designer have chosen them back in the beginning and why do they appear as links? In what way are they links? (I'm probably being very thick...)
Do people have links pages that are not advertised as being there. Links that work for search engines but which could only be found accidentally by a questing shopper?
To get a more accurate picture of links to your website, go to Yahoo or Alltheweb and do the search there. It should make a lot more sense. Then you can also filter out your own site's results, something Google won't do on this type of search.
Do people have links pages that are not advertised as being there. Links that work for search engines but which could only be found accidentally by a questing shopper?
Absolutely. They want to be able to show you they gave you a backlink, but don't want anyone to use it. These people are not your best friends, but they're better than the people who pretend to give you a link (which doesn't work) or give you a link and even hide it from search engines. Not everyone smiling is actually friendly out there.
