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[Jill]

Forget about what Google shows in a link: check. It doesn't really work.

And yes, internal links are important.

[macroprez]

Third, when setting up external links, is it critical that these links be to the first level, or home page, and if not, how many levels down do you think is too far to have a positive impact on rankings?

What type of external links you are talking about, you mean links to other sites, there are no proven evidence outbound links effect rankings, it doesnt matter which page level the link is, it plays minimum value in SE ranking algos, If you mean anything else post it here ill try to answer it,

When I mentioned external links, I was referring to links from other sites to mine.

Internal anchor text links play a vital role in google ranking these days, those links gives complete power to the page they are voting inside your site, it is worth optimizing your internal anchor text to the targeted internal page,

Can you explain some more about internal anchor text links & what you meant by the comments above? What are they exactly? Is this adding a number of links from internal pages to your home page? Links from internal pages to other internal pages? Is there a maximum number to consider?

Thanks.

[chrishirst]

When I mentioned external links, I was referring to links from other sites to mine.
Can you explain some more about internal anchor text links & what you meant by the comments above?  What are they exactly?  Is this adding a number of links from internal pages to your home page?  Links from internal pages to other internal pages?  Is there a maximum number to consider?

Thanks. 

internal links simply refers to your site navigation and you should use anchor text that describes the target page in two or three words. therefore will logically be a keyphrase/word.

A logical / common sense approach says a navigation menu of ;

Blue Lederhosen
Red Lederhosen
Green Lederhosen
Yellow Lederhosen
Large Lederhosen
Lederhosen for Goats

means more to visitors (human and robots) than ;

page one
page two
page three
page four

etc

[wiltonbiz]

I know this has been asked many times before, but, what is the best way to check the number and location of in-bound links to a site?
I see one answer via the "allinurl" method; I see another via the "backlinks" feature on the Google toolbar; another answer on the Alexa feature "sites pointing to this site."

Which number is accurate? Are they measuring different things?

Thanks,

WB

[Jill]

I think we do have a zillion threads with this question. It's because there is no great way to do it accurately.

Your best bet is to read through the other threads here and choose some methods that seem to provide you with most of the links.

Going to Yahoo and typing linkdomain:www.yoursite.com generally works pretty well, and you can figure that Google really knows about all the ones that Yahoo does too.

[sweepthelegnate]

not to continue a thread - that's already around in some form or another...

a good place to start is somewhere like uptimebot.com although I find it is somewhat redundant and there are quite a few sites out there like it you can use.


nathan

[Innovative]

I have well over 50 inbound links, but there's less that 20 that show up using the Google link search tool. Is there a better tool that's more accurate? Is it possible that Google only sees what their link search tool can see? What do you experts say about this problem.


- Innovative

[Haystack]

This is probably the most frequently asked question about link building on this forum. Take a look through some of the recent or not-so-recent threads within the [url=http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showforum=10]link building forum[/url] on here for more information.

[harish318]

If I do link:lookup for my site in G it shows 58 links. But most of these links are from the internal pages of my site. I have done the backlinking from various directories and a few websites but these are not shown when I do the lookup?

I was told that G lookup shows links only from PR4 pages. However some directories where I have listed my site has a PR4 or above. I have also seen when I check the backlinks for some other sites that G shows links even from PR2 links.

I had also read that G takes 4-6 weeks to show the backlinks. I have put these links almost more than 10 weeks back.

Also if I had put links on 1 or 2 directories I would have understood as probably G is not indexing those pages. But I have put my links on more than 25 directories/sites having PR4 or above and atleast 50 more having PR less than 4. It can't be that all 25+50 directories are not indexed.

Can someone explain me this?

Harish

[jcsuper]

Just read the topic of Dave. And there was a post where smbd showed this command link: www.domain.com. I decided to check it with my site. What I can see?
link: www.domain.com (with space) 13200 links
link: ht tp://www.domain.com 3200 links
link:ht tp://www.domain.com (without space) 1210 links
Can anybody explain this difference and why it is so?

[Randy]

The correct syntax is with no space. For example link:www.domain.com You can view Google's Advanced Operators help page here.

The difference is that the others aren't showing you what you think they might be. Although I wouldn't trust the link command too much anyway.

[jcsuper]

Well thanks. I really dont trust this command, as I know my real backlinks- this is not anyone from these numbers.
Just curious, as I checked few first pages with 13200 links and they contain our link, so I suppose that other do the same.

[Randy]

Some may contain a link to your site and some may not.

Basically, the spaced version will be conducting a search for pages which have the word "link" and the word "www.yourdomain.com". So if you took the time to look through all 13,000+ of them you would likely find some that mention your url in the text, but don't actually link to you.

[eragon]

When I search in G for "link:www.familywebwatch.com/blog" I get no results. But when I search for "family webwatch" (with the quotes) I get several results.

I understand that doing a backlink search in G is not very reliable, but I must admit I'm rather confused as to why there would be absolutely no results showing up when using link:.

Am I misunderstanding the way this works, or is this just more evidence to show a backlink search in G is totally useless?

[Googlewhacked]

Hey Eragon,

Don't worry, you are not the only one who cannot make sense of the link: command in Google...

However, I just tried this myself and G returned the same thing to me. I also tried with just the main domain (no "/blog") and there are no links returned for that either. Finally, I repeated the search in Y!, MSN & ATW. Of the three, only ATW returned any results (9 links, all of which were internal links).

All of this leads me to believe that there are either no links, or the links which are there are so new that they haven't been indexed by any of the SEs yet. Should there be links pointing to the site & if so, how new are they?

Phil