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[Renca]

I was wondering how the search engines rank my links. Till now I was verifying the number of links for each search engine by typing "+www.example.+com" in to their seach box and it was growing nicely but then I find out that some programs that I got recently for monitoring my site uses link:www.example.com and that doesn’t have the same result as the other one, in fact is a lot less. So no I am puzzled how many links the search engines recognize while ranking my pages?

thank

Renata

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 4:11 pm (utc) on Mar. 28, 2004]
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[pmkpmk]

Your query finds also mentioning of your site without being an actual link. The "link:" statement only finds real links.

Example:

- www.widget.com - will be found by your query, but NOT by the "link:" query because it is not a link

- www.widget.com [widget.com] - will be found by both queries

See the difference? The first line only shows the URL as text. The second line has it as actual "a href=..." link.

[Renca]

so if I understand right then only the actual href=..." link. is recognised by the search engines.

[pmkpmk]

If you mean "recognised" = counted as incoming link, then the answer is yes.

How did you come up with your searchphrase in the first place? Neven seen a serachphrase like that, especially the extra "+" before the ".com". Why this syntax?

[Renca]

to be honest I am very new to the whole search engines business and I got it from a friend. will it hep in I will if I will give people a link code while exchanging links instead the title, description and url.

renata

[pmkpmk]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean?

[Renca]

I have exchange link with a lots of site and I can see my link on their link page and when I click on them it takes me to my site (I search for the using the first version)but they don’t come up if I use the other search term (link:)so I assumed that the way these site put up links is not recognize by the search engines so may be they using different way of linking so by sending my link code <a href="http://www.exclusiveairports.com" target="_blank"> Exclusive Airports </a> will solve the problem.

renata

[pmkpmk]

Are these sites indexed themselves?

[Renca]

I think that that might be it. I will check it all again. thanks a lot for help
Renata

[pmkpmk]

You're welcome. Just post a short report once you found something new.

[graywolf]

How did you come up with your searchphrase in the first place? Neven seen a serachphrase like that, especially the extra "+" before the ".com". Why this syntax?

If you go to G and type in www.example.com it will display the site and some additional search options the last one says show pages that contain the term "www.example.com". If you click it you get "+www.example.+com". Now here's the interesting part if you are using adwords and the domain is there it will show pages the ads were running on when the spiders came crawling.

Not sure what to do with that knowledge, but thought I would share it.