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[Scottie]

Interesting thing about backlinks I've noticed...

When you have links coming from multiple pages on the same domain, they no longer seem to show up.

My "designed by" links have disappeared as well as forum links (like the ones on the bottom of these forum pages.) I think one page from here appears in the backlinks.

I looked at the suggestion that it might be a "google bomb" filter since my name (in the text here at the forum) doesn't appear on my home page, but I think it's more than that since my "designed by" links all include the company name which is on the home page.

When I simply search for the domain name, those pages don't come up either. It's almost like they aren't even indexing the link at all- just tossing it out entirely from the indexed info.

Anyone else notice this?

[awall19]

It may be common on forums and other similar type of sites, but it is not occuring everywhere yet. I have many backlinks which show otherwise.

[Jean]

I noticed the same thing with some backlinks... anything with "Designed by" or "Maintained by" is not appearing in Google for a backlink search. (The search term/company name is found in both the contextual link and the linked-to page.)

A search for the specified terms/links do appear in the SERPs so they're still indexed.

It'll be interesting to see how all this pans out and how many others have noticed the same.

[Scottie]

I noticed the same thing with some backlinks...

Good! It's not just me... I thought they were out to get me...

Seriously, I've done a little more research and it seems to me like any site where you have a link on every page no longer shows in the backlinks. It went away gradually... my site had 1470 backlinks in October, then 400 in December, now down to 47. Many, many of the original 1470 came from a single site.

Whoops! Today it's changed. Back up to 157 and some of the designed by and forum links are now showing. But not as many as once did.

The PR number hasn't changed, so again, just because they don't show doesn't mean they don't count...

[BrianR]

So perhaps G is finally beginning to get its act together on the backlinks!

Do any regular users of AllTheWeb and Teoma know if they treat this type of backlink similarly??

BrianR

[qwerty]

I know of three sites that link to me as a "credit." One of them comes up in G, and two in ATW. I don't think Teoma does backlink checks. I didn't see anything like it in the advanced search.

[Debra]

Hmmmn, interesting Scottie, I'll check around a bit and see if I notice anything as well.

I've never seen a Teoma backlink Brian, and none of the back-link-checkers list them in the results they bring up. I'll ask Paul Gardi from Teoma while I'm in NY next month. He's on the link panel as well.

Least I HOPE he is

[awall19]

Teoma doesn't do a backlink check because they do much of their link work after the user searches. When you search they take a sampling of the results from the term vector space and then rerank the results based on local interconnectivity.

[Scottie]

the term vector space and then rerank the results based on local interconnectivity.

yeah yeah yeah...

[awall19]

yeah yeah yeah...

I just wanted to sound like a super geek at least once. Normally I try to write super simple and misspell stuff.

A long time ago a was really good at math though, and perhaps my upcomming move to Penn State could spark some inspiring math geekness ambers.

If not, I had my glowing moment off geekness.

[Debra]

And you did good.

[Jill]

...and perhaps my upcomming move to Penn State could spark some inspiring math geekness ambers.

Isn't that a prison?

[Minerva]

Scottie you piqued my curiosity, so I checked out the backlinks from sites I created in the past. Two sites dominate my backlinks with lots of links, and both are PR5. Google shows only one backlink apiece for two other sites; those are PR4. Google shows no backlinks at all for five sites; two of those are PR 4 and three are PR3.

The two that have lots of backlinks showing up for me are ones where I hotlinked the whole phrase "web marketing by ...." (as I was trying to get away from the whole design thing.) In almost all the others it's just my company name that's hotlinked. So whether it's the name or the PR I don't know... I used to put the link on every page of a site.

[BrianR]

Paul is extremely good looking - qualifiies as a hunk. Debra would like a reason to talk with him.

Oh, so NOW you tell me!

Too late - I already emailed Paul and got pretty much the same story as Aaron told us - except without the geeky gobbledegook! - and told him I'd tell Debra coz she wanted to know too.

Far be it from to get in the way of Cupid's arrows, but I've never met Paul Gardi, so how was I to know that (a) he's a hunk and ( Debra's sweet on him. Sheesh!!

BrianR

[Jill]

Let's just hope Debra's hubby doesn't read the forum...