Deverill Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I know Google is notorious for its "Google Dance" and such, but I just did a link check on one of my sites and Google says there are no links and I own at least 3 other sites listed in Google that link to it, all of which are on the first page of links for their particular keyword specialties! Also, Altavista says there are 7 sites (not all of mine are in that count) that linkback. I shouldn't complain because "Key West daycare" gives me #1 and #2 at Google and the next 3 entries are my sites as well so it's not terrible. I just don't understand all this I guess. For instance, my pagerank is 3/10 on the home page. Most links are to deeper pages within that site - does that detract from the pagerank? How can I get it better without having to pay, beg or bribe folks to link to us? How would I go about doing that tactfully and efficiently if it is the only way? I guess I'm just frustrated - you try to make it come out good and then it seems like all your efforts are for nothing or the guys with the cash stomp you or the search engines are just stupid. <sigh> I'm going to go take another look at my code... maybe I'll see something there. Thanks for letting me vent and for any answers you may have. By the way, the website in question is http://www.lcachildcare.com Quote
SEO Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Deverill: Actually lately Google has been notorious for not dancing... sore feet or something! Google does not consider all backlinks relevant. There are actually 22 pages within Google's index that contain a link to your site. Relevancy means many different things but in this case, it really is referring to a PageRank threshold of PR3 (i.e. a page less the PR3 does not 'count'). My suggestion to you... Add your site to the family and ask for an evaluation Quote
Deverill Posted August 24, 2003 Author Posted August 24, 2003 Yeah, I hear that there is a really cool and gifted guy doing those evals! You said 22 linkbacks... is that to the lcachildcare.com site? I just entered link:www.lcachildcare.com and got nothing back. Is there another way to check? I didn't realize about the PR3 relevancy connection... thanks! By the way, a really strange thing. I put a PHP script from TCH Forums in there to email me when googlebot crawls through and I got this: August 24, 2003, 10:25 am August 24, 2003, 6:39 am August 24, 2003, 12:03 am All on my home page! He is probably too busy going out and bringing guests to the dance to actually dance with them! Poor guy is all worn out! I'll post on the Add me to the Family section. Cheers! Quote
SEO Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Yeah, I hear that there is a really cool and gifted guy doing those evals!Well don't know about 'really' cool but his kids do call him 'gifted' occasionally You said 22 linkbacks... is that to the lcachildcare.com site? I just entered link:www.lcachildcare.com and got nothing back. Is there another way to check? Try +www.lcachildcare.+com in the search string. Quote
Deverill Posted August 28, 2003 Author Posted August 28, 2003 Try +www.lcachildcare.+com in the search string. See, that's why you are the SE-Guru! Even being a fan of wildcards and modifiers I would have never put the last + sign. Thanks for the hint! Quote
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