Google is not finding Web pages that in fact link to our site.  These
other sites are indexed by Google and link the same way as one of the
recognized sites that links to us (www.transcends.net).

Why does Google not count these links?  How do we get Google to count
these links and thereby accurately improve our Google page rank?

Google search results only show 3 sites linking to our site
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=link:cifPISfNe_cC:www.transcends.net/

However, there are many other sites that link to our site
(novaskate.com , fauxbydesign.com, and more).  These additional
sites/links can be found by doing a search on "transcend solutions san
diego".  For example, Novaskate.com is indexed by google and links to
us but does not show up or count for our link popularity.  This is the
case for several sites... many which use the identical HTML code to
link to us as used by one of the sites that Google does show as
linking to us.

Why does Google not count these links?  How do we get Google to count
these links and thereby accurately improve our Google page rank?

Thank you!!

Hi there,

Although you won't find an official reason for this anywhere within
Google's help pages, many webmasters have learnt that, as a general
rule, only sites with a PageRank of 4 or more will show up when you
check for backward links. It is debatable whether only the sites
listed are used for link popularity calculations.

These show up as linking to your site:

PR5
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/S/

PR4
http://www.e-40.com/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/T/
http://www.earthsbounty.com/

These link to your site, but do not show up as backward links:

PR2
http://www.novaskate.com/
http://www.fauxbydesign.com/
http://www.helavasearch.com/search_dir/Site_Design/

PR3
http://www.sandiego-links.com/Local_Biz/web_designers.html

Discussions on this at WebMasterWorld:

I've learnt that google only shows backward links that has pr4 or
higher. link:mysite.com will only show sites that links to u which
have a pr4 or higher. But then google still count the pr4 and under
sites in your true page rank, it just doesn;t show it. (so I've
heard).
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/4187.htm

link:www.domain.com will bring up all sites where the link page is
>pr4. Lower PR links do count for your site but are not listed using
this search term.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/7825.htm

google doesn't include pages with less than about pr4 in a "link:"
search, but it does use those pages when calculating PageRank (so you
do benefit from being linked by them)
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/4641-2-15.htm

PLEASE NOTE: Only backlinks of pr4 and above show with the link:
command. Thus, if you have 100 PR3 pages linking to a page, and 4 that
are pr4+, you'll only see 4 backlinks.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/6589.htm

There's a nifty new feature at AlltheWeb called the URL Investigator,
and by clicking on...

http://www.alltheweb.com/urlinfo?q=transcends.net&c=web&cs=utf-8

You can see that they know of 25 sites that link to yours.


Search strategy: personal experience

Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga