Back links & google

www.tradeco.co.uk · Post by **www.tradeco.co.uk** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:19 am

It seems that it's more difficult to get google to see back links to your site. Is this because of the "sandbox" or are there specific optimisations needed for google to pick up links?

amitavroy · Post by **amitavroy** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:36 am

what is the thing called sand box, can any one pls tell me so that i can check the status of my site also

www.tradeco.co.uk · Post by **www.tradeco.co.uk** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:38 am

on the link popularity checker, for most websites there are significantly more links found on the other engines e.g. www.micex.com

Google Yahoo! AllTheWeb AltaVista MSN
764 35600 35600 35700 3799

viradian · Post by **viradian** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:37 pm

The Google sandbox is google's way of making new sites have to wait in order to get listed in the SERPs. Google denies the existance of the sandbox.

I have all my pages indexed with Google, but I don't show up in the SERPs at all for some keywords.

Does anyone have an idea on how long it takes to get out of the sandbox? 6mos, 12 mos, etc....

real_estate · Post by **real_estate** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:52 pm

www.tradeco.co.uk wrote:It seems that it's more difficult to get google to see back links to your site. Is this because of the "sandbox" or are there specific optimisations needed for google to pick up links?

Hi,
Google only shows backlinks for the specific page you requested (usually the homepage), not the whole site like other search engines do.Google purposely does not list all links pointing to a particular page. This is an effort to keep webmasters from manipulating their system.

www.tradeco.co.uk · Post by **www.tradeco.co.uk** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:11 am

Thanks for that.

viradian · Post by **viradian** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:32 am

I have read that Google withholds some of the links it displays, so you can't really nail down how many you have. Its Google's way of keeping their algorithm a secret, along with all the other factors they use to rank sites.

overdriveelectronics · Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:11 am

i believe from what I have heard is that google only shows up to 10% of the links that it knows about!

www.tradeco.co.uk · Post by **www.tradeco.co.uk** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:15 am

okay, thanks again. more useful information.

uronix · Post by **uronix** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:22 am

instead of
link:www.yourwebsite.com
try typing
::www.yourwebsite.com
on google search box
you will see all the links there....

viradian · Post by **viradian** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:31 am

That's good, it does show a lot more links. It shows all of my forum postings in the link cache.

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