Confusion over directory links

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 04:13 AM

Hi i need some help,
About 6 months ago i submitted my site to some high PR paid sites, aviva directory, site-sift,joeant and others i also submitted my site to other free high PR sites, google indexed these and counted them as a link to my site,
yesterday whilst checking on marketleap.com i found that now all of those high PR links are not being counted on my site by google anymore yet when checking the directories my link is still on their sites,
Can anyone explain why my link on there site is no longer valid in googles link popularity?

zokiii · 08-27-2007, 04:27 AM

Check backlinks via yahoo:
linkdomain:sitename.com -site:sitename.com

Google doesn't show all backlinks.

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 04:35 AM

but thats where i am confused because google did show all of those links

zokiii · 08-27-2007, 04:50 AM

If google doesn't show some backlinks that doesn't mean that google moved those backlinks value.

Google shows random backlinks and please do not look for backlinks on google.
Everybody knows it.

Red_Virus · 08-27-2007, 06:38 AM

are links still existing in the same categories that u submitted or have moved further in the inner cats & how is your SERP's ? ranking 6 months back & now. ?

dee_el07 · 08-27-2007, 08:29 AM

some tools are not accurate, just check it manually, if its still there, then theres nothing to worry about it..

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 08:31 AM

i am not worried that the link is there or not i am just concerned that it will affect my positioning in the search engines.

Trapped · 08-27-2007, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by costa blanca

but thats where i am confused because google did show all of those links

Google it did showed, but now it has revalued those links and thinks that they should not be displayed in public. There is nothing wrong with this, nor it does mean that those links don't count, its just Google's decision not to display those sites as backlinks of your site.

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 08:33 AM

my links are still in the same catergories and my ranking doesn't seem to have changed, which i have found odd as i have been building lots of links with other sites in the expectation that my positioning would get higher,

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 08:36 AM

so if thats the case how do you know exactly how many backlinks you have to your site if google doesn't show all of them

dee_el07 · 08-27-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by costa blanca

so if thats the case how do you know exactly how many backlinks you have to your site if google doesn't show all of them

Google don't show all your backlinks,But it will show after the backlink update..
Try this one if you want to check your backlinks but i am not sure if this one will show the result accurately..

costa blanca · 08-27-2007, 08:48 AM

thanks for that it shows some of the links but not all of them there are still some big links missing.

dee_el07 · 08-27-2007, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by costa blanca

thanks for that it shows some of the links but not all of them there are still some big links missing.

welcome, try to search for google there are lots of backlinks checker there but that's not as good and accurate as you want..

web-mastery · 08-27-2007, 08:57 AM

PageRank isn't per-site, but rather per-page. Maybe the pages you submitted to had low PR.

businessservicesuk · 08-27-2007, 10:04 AM

I personally believe paid directory submissions are on there way out.

coolguy27 · 08-27-2007, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by costa blanca

Hi i need some help,
About 6 months ago i submitted my site to some high PR paid sites, aviva directory, site-sift,joeant and others i also submitted my site to other free high PR sites, google indexed these and counted them as a link to my site,
yesterday whilst checking on marketleap.com i found that now all of those high PR links are not being counted on my site by google anymore yet when checking the directories my link is still on their sites,
Can anyone explain why my link on there site is no longer valid in googles link popularity?

Google has always shown only a sample of the links coming into your site. These links are updated in the search results every 3 - 6 weeks. Even though google only shows a small sample, this does not mean that google doesn't count the other backlinks when displaying search results. Google updates its search result pages for standard searches continuously, and these search results take into account all links that google has found...

Try using the Google's Webmaster tools... If you have account you can just login and see all your links there...