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Subject: Links to my website
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Asked by: issia1347-ga
List Price: $10.38
Posted: 08 Jul 2003 03:48 PDT
Expires: 07 Aug 2003 03:48 PDT
Question ID: 226420
Why the GOOGLE can not find web pages that link to www.photospreview.com ?
Some of web pages that link to my URL are:

http://www.iranhoo.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=&PID=460
http://www.photo.net/community/links

                With the best regards: Yashayai
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Subject: Re: Links to my website
Answered By: aceresearcher-ga on 08 Jul 2003 13:15 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Greetings, issia1347!

You can find the pages that Google sees a linking to you by putting
your URL into the Search Text box:
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Sorry, no information is available for the URL photospreview.com

Find web pages that contain the term "photospreview.com"
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://www.google.com/search?q=photospreview.com


However, if you include "www" at the beginning of your URL, you get:
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Photospreview.com (DB: smmwizard@hotmail.com)
A collection of beautiful pictures of historical places, nature,
peoples, towns and... from IRAN and other world's countries.

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

Show Google's cache of www.photospreview.com 
Find web pages that are similar to www.photospreview.com 
Find web pages that link to www.photospreview.com 
Find web pages that contain the term "www.photospreview.com"
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://www.google.com/search?q=www.photospreview.com


First of all, your page has a Google Page Rank of 0. I am guessing
that it's because of the redirect from
http://www.photospreview.com
to
http://www.photospreview.com/cgi-bin/smmwizard/home.pl

I'm not sure why you're using this redirect, but you need to get rid
of it.

From "Google Information for Webmasters":
"Quality Guidelines - Specific recommendations:

... Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects."
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html


As far as the Google Search Results page for "www.photospreview.com",
if you click on the "contain the term" link, you will see that
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=214623
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=202275 
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/guestbook.fcgi?albumID=55367467
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/guestbook.fcgi?albumID=25587013
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/guestbook.fcgi?albumID=48704579
link to you.


If you check AllTheWeb's Search Engine, you will find:
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No entries for photospreview.com in our index.
Find all 1 external web pages that contain the term
"photospreview.com"
Discover who owns "photospreview.com"
See how "photospreview.com" used to look
-------------------------------------------------------
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=photospreview.com+-site%3Aphotospreview.com

If you click on "1 external web pages", you will see that
http://www.bits2atoms.com/addvalue/B000021YS2.html 
links to you.


With regard to the 
http://www.iranhoo.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=&PID=460
page, I've tried it 3 times within the last hour, and I always get the
message "Too many connections". If it happens several times that a
site is not available when the Googlebot exists, it will remove the
URL from its index and not go looking for it anymore. That may be why
Google won't show a link to you on that page.


As far as 
http://www.photo.net/community/links 

while you appear in the current version of that page, you do not
appear in the Cached version of that page:
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:brv3yRazeJcJ:www.photo.net/community/links

Using a Comet Web Search ( http://search.cometsystems.com
), we can find out the date that Google cached that page:
http://search.cometsystems.com/search.php?qry=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photo.net%2Fcommunity%2Flinks&gg_ca=brv3yRazeJcJ:www.photo.net%2Fcommunity%2Flinks&origin=unknown&tmpl=0A

-------------------------------------------------------
The page you see is not a LIVE page of
http://www.photo.net/community/links.
It is an archived copy dated Jul 7, 2003. <-----
Click here to go to the live site. 
-------------------------------------------------------

This means that your site has only been listed on the 
http://www.photo.net/community/links 
page for 1 day.
( On a side note, I strongly encourage you to ask them to change your
URL to http://www.photospreview.com , so that Google will see it
properly as a link to your site.)

It may take 4 to 6 WEEKS for changes to a page to be indexed by
Google, so you shouldn't expect this site to show up as a backward
link to you for a while. The key word here, unfortunately, is --
patience.


In the meantime, you can work on getting your site submitted to other
Search Engines and Directories.
 
It won't hurt to submit your site again to Google, to get the
Googlebot to take a fresh look at it once you've removed the redirect:
  Google:       
://www.google.com/addurl.html      
  (Be aware that it may take anywhere from 1 to 3 months for your site
to start showing up on Google; however, since Google also uses DMOZ as
a guide to its indexing efforts, your previous submission to DMOZ 
might speed that up a little.) 
 
  
When submitting, be sure to follow their instructions; for instance,
some Engines request that you submit only your top-level URL rather
than every one of your pages. Failure to follow the instructions can
result in lowered rankings or even in being blacklisted from a
SearchEngine.
     
  DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):  
Category - Business: Arts and Entertainment: Photography: Stock
http://dmoz.org/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Photography/Stock
  You can submit your site on this page: 
http://editors.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Photography/Stock
 
A DMOZ listing is **critical**, because it will get you on ODP partner
sites including AOL Search, Ask Jeeves & Teoma, DirectHit, Dogpile,
Excite, HotBot, Google, Infospace, Lycos, Netscape Search, Webcrawler,
as well as HUNDREDS of other sites:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/Open_Directory_Project/Sites_Using_ODP_Data/full-index.html
  
And here are the submission URLs for the rest of the Big Guys:  
---------------------------------------------  
---------------------------------------------  
  HotBot: (you will need to go through free Registration first)  
http://ldbreg.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=29&m_CBURL=http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite?step1.asp
---------------------------------------------  
  AllTheWeb:      
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php      
---------------------------------------------  
  AltaVista:      
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new      
---------------------------------------------  
  Zeal (LookSmart/MSN free submission w/free registration)      
http://www.zeal.com/users/register.jhtml      
---------------------------------------------  


Before Rating my Answer, if you have any questions about the above
information, please post a Request for Clarification, and I will see
what I can do for you.

I hope that this information both Answers your Questions, and gives
you additional resources for getting increased traffic to your site!

Regards,

aceresearcher
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