I would like to find all the links from other websites to one of the
pages in my website, http://mcraefamily.com/.
When I search for link:mcraefamily.com, I get no hits.
But when I search for a specific page, e.g.
link:mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/index.htm, I get lots and lots of hits,
including a whole bunch of internal links from other pages in my own
website.
This brings up part two of my question: How can I list only the pages
that are *not* in my website that link to any page *inside* my
website? (I tried link:mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/index.htm
-site:mcraefamily.com to no avail -- it doesn't find any results at
all.)
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Clarification of Question by
graememcrae-ga
on
06 Jun 2004 09:31 PDT
I noticed an answer to a similar question,
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=356662, in which it
was suggested that one should search for references to the name of a
website.
Sure enough, if I search for "mcraefamily.com" -site:mcraefamily.com
I get a nice list of references to my site from other sites than mine.
However, my concern is that this won't find *links* to my site if the
name "mcraeclan.com" isn't also in the referring page. I really want
to find anything that *links* to any page of my site from any *other*
site besides mine. Thanks.
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Request for Question Clarification by
aceresearcher-ga
on
06 Jun 2004 20:14 PDT
Greetings, Graeme!
I'm not sure what you mean when you say:
<< ...if I search for "mcraefamily.com" -site:mcraefamily.com I get a
nice list of references to my site from other sites than mine.
However, my concern is that this won't find *links* to my site if the
name "mcraeclan.com" isn't also in the referring page. >>
I'm not certain why you believe that the name "mcraeclan.com" would
affect the results of the search. If you can provide me with some more
details, I'd be glad to try to assist you.
Regards,
aceresearcher
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Request for Question Clarification by
serenata-ga
on
06 Jun 2004 20:28 PDT
Hi, Graeme ~
Actually, that's an excellent way to find sites that mention or link
to your own site outside your own internal links.
I was going to recommend it myself - if you try it with the 'www' in
front of the first mcrae.com, thusly: "www.mcraefamily.com"
-site:mcraefamily.com
you only get 'about 9' results, but if you try it without the 'www', I
see there are 'about 134' results.
Looks like you can cancel this question, inasmuch as you've solved it yourself!
Regards,
Serenata
Google Answers Researcher
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Clarification of Question by
graememcrae-ga
on
06 Jun 2004 22:46 PDT
aceresearcher, you're right, I mis-"spoke" when I wrote mcraeclan; I
meant mcraefamily. Let me first correct the passage that you
questioned, and then let me further clarify what I mean.
<< ...if I search for "mcraefamily.com" -site:mcraefamily.com I get a
nice list of references to my site from other sites than mine.
However, my concern is that this won't find *links* to my site if the
name "mcraefamily.com" isn't also in the referring page. >>
Now, for the clarification.
If the name mcraefamily.com is visible in the referring page (for
example, if the referring page says "I think you should visit the
mcraefamily.com website") then the search I proposed
("mcraefamily.com" -site:mcraefamily.com) will find that referring
page.
But if the name mcraefamily.com is not visible in the referring page
(for example, if the referring page says "I think you should visit < a
href="http://mcraefamily.com">this < /a> website" then the search I
proposed will probably not find the referring page, because the words
mcraefamily.com don't appear in the visible portion of the referring
page.
To put it another way, I need to be reassured that the search I
proposed will find pages that contain "mcraefamily.com" in a portion
of their HTML that doesn't translate to any visible text on their web
page, such as in the href inside an anchor tag. Failing that
reassurance, I need to know what search *will* find such references,
or a search that will find links from other websites to my website.
Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
aceresearcher-ga
on
07 Jun 2004 04:36 PDT
Graeme,
You're correct. The only time you're going to see those
differently-labeled links is when they have a Page Rank of 4 or
higher, which will cause them to show up in the search
link:mcraefamily.com
Regards,
ace
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Clarification of Question by
graememcrae-ga
on
07 Jun 2004 08:12 PDT
aceresearcher, I want to see those differently-labeled links to *any*
page in my website. When I search for link:mcraefamily.com I find no
links at all, because the "link:" prefix seems to require an exact
page. For example, if I search for link:mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/ I
find pages such as www.shepherd.edu/mathweb/problems.html and
home.comcast.net/~sellke1/MathSites.htm that link to this exact page.
And if I search for link:mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/BasicLinear1.htm I
find pages such as http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_8th.htm
that link to *this* exact page.
None of these pages is found searching on "mcraefamily.com", by the
way, because all of these links are "differently named" -- that is,
the words "mcraefamily.com" don't appear on these referring pages.
It is not a concern that Google will only find referring pages with a
Page Rank 4 or greater using the link: prefix. However I would like
to avoid having to do a separate search for links to each of the
hundreds of pages in my website. Perhaps you could suggest a way to
use a wildcard, for example, such as link:mcraefamily.com/*, (this is
just an example of what I mean by wildcard -- it doesn't work!).
Thank you.
--Graeme
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Mcintyre_06, Your comment has a number of separate parts.
1. You said "I'm almost positive Google includes all html hyperlinks"
but that's not true. If I search on "mcraefamily.com" I don't find
pages that link to me using links labeled with words other than
"mcraefamily.com".
2. You said "I'm sure none of us will get money", but that's not true
either. If a researcher answers my question, then he will get the
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3. You said, "How do I know if my comments have answered a question?"
Only by coming back to this question later to see if other people
(including perhaps the person who asked the question in the first
place) have posted comments indicating whether your comment was
helpful. In any case, comments don't count as "answers", and people
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4. Perhaps you are not aware that you must be accepted by Google as a
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to become a researcher, click the link at the bottom of this page,
"Answers FAQ", and then click the link at the bottom of that page
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5. It is unwise to include your email address in comments because
unscrupulous spammers (is there any other kind?) will crawl the web
looking for valid email addresses, and find yours.
--Graeme |
