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no backlinks from google

by Owen Mailer
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HI everyone im having trouble getting backlinks noticed by google
when i go onto traffic travis and serch for backlinks if i use google there are none but if i look at the yahoo backlinks it finds loads
can anyone explain why this might happen??
#backlinks #google
  • Profile picture of the author MikeWords
    G purposely shows only a small percentage the backlinks that they recognize. If they show them all it will enable the wise to get a better idea of how their algorithms work.
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    • Profile picture of the author hbsjcd3
      Originally Posted by MikeWords View Post

      G purposely shows only a small percentage the backlinks that they recognize. If they show them all it will enable the wise to get a better idea of how their algorithms work.
      Yes, I second that. Don't pay attention to Google links......not accurate at all. 6 of by blogs are from PR3-PR5 and yet, when I check Google, I see about 2 or3 links.

      Yahoo's tool : LINKDOMAIN is better, but still not 100% accurate,its about 60-70% accurate.

      Again, don't focus on inaccurate statistics, just keep focusing on building one-way links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gimme4Free
    I also have far less backlinks on Google compared to Yahoo, not too sure why though, I am listed higher on Yahoo too :S
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    • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
      Originally Posted by Gimme4Free View Post

      I also have far less backlinks on Google compared to Yahoo, not too sure why though, I am listed higher on Yahoo too :S
      Part of that is because Yahoo counts every page on which you have a link. For instance, it would count every, single, thread here on the Warrior Forum as a separate link because of my signature file. It also indexes each page.

      Google counts each link from a domain as one link and also indexes only one link per domain for the keyword.

      I know this because Yahoo Site Explorer shows all my forum posts as individual backlinks and because Yahoo shows 42 million results for my keyword and Google only shows 13 million.
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  • Profile picture of the author ITOutsourcing
    But if you do get the links, from what I understand this are the important onces
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Mailer
    Thanks Guys ill just keep pluggin and see if i can get Any!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Zalesky
    Sorry To bump this but I have a question.

    So your saying that when posting in forums etc or anywhere from the same domain it is better to just use different keywords as anchors? Or just one backlink per site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
      Originally Posted by Jason Zalesky View Post

      Sorry To bump this but I have a question.

      So your saying that when posting in forums etc or anywhere from the same domain it is better to just use different keywords as anchors? Or just one backlink per site?
      If you use different keywords as anchors, that will help you rank for different keywords. Otherwise, with Google it's one backlink per site. So two or three backlinks with the same keyword won't help you more than one will. But if you are targeting different keywords, then more than one link WILL help you.

      And with forums...respect the wishes of the forum community. Many forums just don't like links to 'commercial' sites posted (which they consider "spam", regardless of your 'helpful' comments). Especially non-IM type forums.

      There are many sites that allow links nowadays that are NOT forums. That's one nice thing about Web 2.0.
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