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Subject: links
Category: Computers
Asked by: enoor-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 11 Mar 2003 14:34 PST
Expires: 10 Apr 2003 15:34 PDT
Question ID: 174835
I have multiple links pointed to my site web-site-design-chicago.com ,
but under goodle link its shows none, they do show up under contain
"web-site-design-chicago.com"
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Subject: Re: links
Answered By: robertskelton-ga on 11 Mar 2003 15:20 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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.
 
These link to your site, but do not show up as backward links, because
they are all PR3 or less:

PR0
http://www.catmet.com/services.htm
http://www.just-beauty-links.com/chicago_beauty_salon.html
http://www.just-barber-links.com/design_hair_salon.html
http://www.shopinusa.com/Business_Services/Internet_Service_Providers/Chicago_Web_Site_Design_by_Designed_Media/338499.htm
http://www.joeant.com/DIR/cat/14587/Illinois

PR1
http://www.shopinchicago.com/Computers___Electronics/Software/Chicago_Web_Site_Design_by_Designed_Media/338499.htm
http://catmet.com/contact.htm
http://www.desme.com/
 
PR2 
http://www.topmovingcompanies.com/directory/996514587/Illinois
http://maiandjoe.com/

PR3 
http://www.ygosalon.com/

 
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=web-site-design-chicago.com&c=web&cs=utf-8
 
You can see that they know of 57 sites that link to yours. 


QUICK SUGGESTION
----------------

I noted that your website is duplicated at desme.com. This is not
going to help you appear in search results. Google says:

"Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with
substantially duplicate content."
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

 
 
Search strategy: personal experience 
 
Best wishes, 
robertskelton-ga

Request for Answer Clarification by enoor-ga on 12 Mar 2003 07:20 PST
how do you define PR1, PR2 or PR4  whats the highest it goes

Clarification of Answer by robertskelton-ga on 12 Mar 2003 13:11 PST
PageRank starts at nothing and goes to 10. A PR of zero indicates the
site has displeased Google in some way. The most popular sites on the
web have a PR of 10, the likes of Google, Yahoo, Adobe Acrobat
download page. Sites listed in Yahoo or Open Directory usually have a
minimum of 4 or 5. A PR of 6 or more is a good goal to strive for, and
can only really be obtained by having lots of other sites linking to
yours.

The standard way to see a site's PR is via the Google Toolbar:
http://toolbar.google.com/
enoor-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
it was great help

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Subject: Re: links
From: robertskelton-ga on 12 Mar 2003 13:10 PST
 
PageRank starts at nothing and goes to 10. A PR of zero indicates the
site has displeased Google in some way. The most popular sites on the
web have a PR of 10, the likes of Google, Yahoo, Adobe Acrobat
download page. Sites listed in Yahoo or Open Directory usually have a
minimum of 4 or 5. A PR of 6 or more is a good goal to strive for, and
can only really be obtained by having lots of other sites linking to
yours.

The standard way to see a site's PR is via the Google Toolbar:
http://toolbar.google.com/

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