In need of high pr links

While the number of links found in Yahoo is a good indicator of how many links of your links may be indexed in Google that number is only an indicator. Google finds, indexes, updates and decides how much weight to give any particular link on its own with not help at all from Yahoo/Bing. That number you are finding in Yahoo does not directly represent the number of your links that Google has indexed.

I have not found any evidence that Google indexes links any slower than Yahoo/Bing does, in fact just the opposite in most cases.


As far as Google withholding link info they have very clearly said that they do not show all the links, this is not something that we have to guess about. There are a couple of vids that cover the subject in the Google Webmaster vids. There are two reasons given. One to keep others from finding all your links. Two to make it harder for you (everyone who has a site) from gaming the system more than we already do.

This is very easy to test. When you create articles or accounts try inserting a unique phrase in them that does not show any or very few results when you do an exact search. After your articles have been submitted do another search for that phrase and you can see which ones have been indexed. You will see numbers that are completely different from what Google is showing you and even what Yahoo is showing you.

0_inspiration said:

But you seemed to be saying that wasn't the way to do it in your last post didn't you?....

I tend to use Yahoo site explorer because Yahoo update their directory FAR more regurlarly than Google, and if its on Yahoo it will show up on Google eventually! Google doesnt show all the links because they don't update their directory all that often, but they make use of the Yahoo directory in their search algorithm as far as I'm aware. The links SHOULD show up eventually, when Google gets updates it.

Your anecdotal evidence is interesting though, but I'm not sure that Google 'withholds' info in its directory, and even if they did it would show up in one of the other search engines wouldn't it?

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