Links to our site in Google

[lifestyles]

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Hi all,

In Google when we check the links to our home page it lists nothing but we know for a fact that we have loads of links out there.

Can anyone give us some advice on where we are going wrong, there is an example link below:

http://www.getmeaticket.co.uk/?partner=6


Cheers
Stacey

[Jon@buyagift]

Hi,

i have just had a look on google using - "link: www.getmeaticket.co.uk"
and it is showing sites with links to your page.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

Hope that helps

[lifestyles]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for having a look for us.

Its really wierd if i search for other sites it works fine but in the url that google generates i have to put a space before www.getmeaticket.co.uk before it lists all of our links..........very strange.

Cheers
Stacey.

[boomer.swp]

Google doesn't show all your backlinks. It's better to look for them in Yahoo. Example:

linkdomain:yourdomain.com

Regards,
boomer

[Ian001]

Apparantly, Google only shows around 10% of the links to your page (read that in a book about seo) plus if you have any links from sites which aren't indexed than they are pretty much useless unless they're sending you lots of traffic. Hope this helps

[seekituk]

Hi,

I've had similar problems with rankings etc with SE's. I think it also depends on which Data Centre you connect to when you do your search.

[deano6410]

use Yahoo or Msn.

Google focuses more on a small random sample of mainly one way links to your site. Ignore Google for links.

[SIMONR85]

google only shows less than 10% of the links it knows about

[Sammy aff]

You could go here
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
not any help with google links, but you will get an overview from the rest

Google does not show links that they consider 'worthless' but your links are there; hidden in googlecyberland. Strange but somedays you see 1000 links in google...next day 10? Next day 0.

High PR links 'nearly' always stay stable and show.

[globoChris]

Google's a bit messed up at the moment in terms of the link:, site: and related: commands.

[JustBuyOnlineLtd]

Hi,

i have just had a look on google using - "link: www.getmeaticket.co.uk"
and it is showing sites with links to your page.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

Hope that helps

Jon, you have the syntax wrong. Don't add any spaces. Your search results are far from what you think they are.

[Brendon]

Using a space between link: and the domain name breaks the "special" syntax. The query MUST be of the form link:www.domain.com

The reason you see so few is that you have very few links that Google consider to be "quality" - you need to expend some time and / or effort to improve your linking stragey, I think.

My consultancy rates are very reasonable

[ep90]

Its my understanding the google only reports backlinks when the linking site (not yours) has a PR of 4 or above.