www.jewelrycrossings.com

Why does nothing come up on the above site when I look for backward
links in Google backward links directory? I know there are several, I
have obtained them over the last month.

Thanks,

DR

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Request for Question Clarification by serenata-ga on 24 May 2003 23:27 PDT

Hello Roseyman:

In order for any researcher to give you an educated guess, it would
help to know:

1. When you submitted the site for inclusion on Google.
2. Did you use submission software (such as Web Position Gold)?
3. Were you listed in the past, and were those links to your site
listed in the past?
4. Are those sites linking to yours the same that are on your link
page and part of the jewelry 'link exchange'?
5. Have you made major changes to your site since you submitted it to
Google?
6. Did you follow Google's suggestions regarding site submission and
Webmaster Guidelines?

Any further information you can offer will help any researcher offer
some suggestions on why your site isn't listed and why sites linking
to yours isn't listed.

Thanks,
Serenata

Greetings, roseyman!

We gets lots of questions from website owners wanting to know why the
links: search method won't show that any pages link to their website,
even though they KNOW for a fact that such pages exist.
  
Because of Google's secrecy, it is not known for absolute certain, but
the general consensus among experienced webmasters who have
extensively studied Google's "backward links" function pretty much
agree that if a URL has a Page Rank less than 4, the link: function
will not work, and that if it has a Page Rank of 4 or higher, the
link: function will only return pages with a Rank of 4 or higher:
   
From Senior Forum Member "Beachboy" at WebmasterWorld:     
"Your index page is PR3, Google won't show any inbound links unless
the page you're doing the query on is PR4 or greater."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/4784.htm?highlight=inbound+links+higher
     
From Senior Forum Member "Birdman" at WebmasterWorld:     
"It is thought that Google only shows backlinks from pages that have a
pr4 or higher."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/7309.htm?highlight=inbound+links+higher
  
Because your Page Rank is 0, the "backward links" function will not
show other websites that link to your site, no matter how many
websites link to your site.

I hope that this Answer provided exactly the information that you
needed!

Regards,

aceresearcher

thanks for the answers, it helped me understand more of what is going on with PR.

DR