In search of the missing link…
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Okay, through the display of exceptional tenacity I actually
acquired an inbound link to call my very own, and from a
strong & relavent site. And actually it should qualify as two
or more links, since he installed it on the homepage of his
sister site too, another dot com or tv or whatever, and they
both get duplicated every time he puts a new post up.I have learned my lesson and I’m not going to claim that
my blog is broke. But I do have a problem —Since this is the only inbound link I have, whatever’s going
on with it is highly conspicuous. For the first couple of days
after he put up the link, my dashboard & sitestats pages
showed the link. Then for the next couple of days or so,
they showed two links. Then one, then none. For the last
couple of days or so the dashboard and the sitestats pages
both say I don’t have ANY incoming links at all.I have checked out the links both outbound & inbound, and
everything’s where it’s supposed to be, working like it’s
supposed to work.So what’s the deal? Is this link still being recognized and
am I receiving any proper benefit from it, whatever that
might be? I’m located here —http://thedirtylowdown.wordpress.com/
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Well, the answer is, Incoming Links are counted by Google Blogsearch. It’s glitchy, REALLY glitchy. But we have no evidence that when your incoming links vanish from Google Blogsearch temporarily that you vanish from Google as well; there doesn’t appear to be a relationship between them. So it appears you’re fine.
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Thanks Raincoaster.
Actually this function — when it works — is never going to
recognize, tally and display all my inbound links anyway,
is it? The sister-site (dot com) link has never been dis-
played by the widget, technically I should have had at
least two viable incoming links from Day One.And don’t the clones spawned by subsequent posts to a
dynamic homepage count technically as inbound links as
well, at least for the purposes of Googlebot crawling, or
are they typically ignored and factored-out by the system
in place for such things generally?So, is there an authoritative word on what links this func-
tion is going to recognize and tally — if and when it’s work-
ing — and which types it isn’t?Or I ‘m thinking a better question at this point might be: is
there a better way of tracking and monitoring these links
(all the links, all the time, instead of some of the links,
some of the time), perhaps through a third-party source or
application?Thanks…
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You can track links internal and external by using your Google webmasters account. You can also use Technorati provided you have claimed your blog there. You can also use this format in Google search. Note there is no space following the colon.
link:example.comlink:thedirtylowdown.wordpress.comThe results display all the sites linking to your site. Note that you can also track the total number at the top to see if links are increasing or decreasing.
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You’re welcome.
Here’s the link for Yahoo’s open site explorer http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.Here’s the link to an excellent tool that I prefer to use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
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