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
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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 |