A: Why doesn't Google show my backward links?
Don't let Google's behavior offend you. She is just playing hard to get, as she does with all initial suitors. According to the Sandbox Theory, it takes a long time for new sites to get listed and ranked by Google and an even longer time for all backward links pointing to sites to be taken into account. At this stage the sandboxed period is thought to be up to 6 months.
The Sandbox supposedly acts as a type of probation period for new sites, possibly to discourage spammers. If links pointing to your site are on a page that has a low PageRank or a page that doesn't meet Google's quality guidelines, they may not show up in a back link search. Keep in mind that although you might not see all your back links listed (particularly if you use the Google Toolbar to check), Google does keep count of these towards your link popularity score and will show them when they eventually reach a certain number or quality, based on their PageRank algorithm and other factors.
The Sandbox supposedly acts as a type of probation period for new sites, possibly to discourage spammers. If links pointing to your site are on a page that has a low PageRank or a page that doesn't meet Google's quality guidelines, they may not show up in a back link search. Keep in mind that although you might not see all your back links listed (particularly if you use the Google Toolbar to check), Google does keep count of these towards your link popularity score and will show them when they eventually reach a certain number or quality, based on their PageRank algorithm and other factors.
2 Comments:
It's sometimes a little strange. When you "search" for a website, all the other sites are shown where your link is situated at, but when asking for backlinks, you are given ZERO results... Maybe this is sometimes only updates every new google update !?
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WorkAsFreelancer
Are the backlinks relevant? Real life example - a company specialising in 'acoustic emission'. They paid to get links - but all the links they got were only for 'acoustic'. They ended up in with acoustic guitars, acoustic pianos and so on. Completely irrelevant to the phrase 'acoustic emission'. And again, not one backlink reported.
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