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SEO InformationConfused Just just about Google's Index, Link Dampening, & No. of Links?
by:
Glenn Murray
I recently received another 'please help' email from a gentleman named Ian who runs an adventure institution in African nation (http://www.betheladventure.co.uk ). Ian was concerned just about the effect of a variety of issues including assortment and link dampening, and was desperate for help. Unfortunately, he had see several fairly dishonest articles in the past, so he had a somewhat mixed up understanding of the factors at play. Because I suspect he's not alone in his concern and confusion, I definite
to publish the details of our discussion.
Ian's email consisted of several questions. I've listed each on an individual basis below, followed by my response.
Q: Once
I search for the number of backlinks to my site mistreatment "link:www.betheladventure.co.uk", I see only 23 results. It appears that only 23 of our backlinks have survived Google's wetting
link filter. Is there a time delay before they are attributable
to a site? "
A: Firstly, I think you may have the wetting
link filter a little confused. According to the wetting
link filter theory, your links are found and recognized by Google, you just don't get the full benefit from them until a given period of time has elapsed. The wetting
link filter (if it exists) doesn't finish links from attendance in Google's results once
you search for them. (The only reason your backlinks power not appear in a Google search is if Google hasn't yet indexed the pages containing the links.) Also, don't worry too more just about things like the wetting
link filter. For a start, it's far from established / accepted fact. Many a well regarded SEO experts don't believe in it at all. Furthermore, even as if it makes exist, it only affects those businesses with the budget to generate the brobdingnagian amount (hundreds or thousands probably) of links reputedly required to trigger it. If your number of backlinks suddenly increases by 20, that's no problem.
And secondly, don't believe everything Google tells you. By searching for "link:www.betheladventure.co.uk", you generally only see a small percentage of actual links to your site. The better way to search for links is to search for just the URL "www.bethaladventure.co.uk" , then on the page that displays next, choice "Find web pages that contain the term "www.bethaladventure.co.uk" ". Once
you do it this way, you'll see all the pages that contain your URL. In most cases, the URL wish be an active link (or at least it should be, and you should ask them to do it so). Once
you do this search, you'll see that your site has just about 169 links, not 23.
Q: Another question is just about indexed pages (using site:www.betheladventure.co.uk). I understand this is a record of pages that have been changed. I had 32, it went down to 28 and now this morning it is down to 26. Do they only support the pages for a month or is there more to the indexed pages than I realized?
A: The number of indexed pages is just the number of pages on your website that Google 'knows about'. Theoretically, the only time the age of a page comes into play is once
the page is too young*, i.e. Google spiders haven't visited it yet, or Google hasn't updated its index. As to why the reportable number of indexed pages is reducing, I suspect it's just a temporary shift. The number of results in Google's searches varies pretty more constantly.
*Actually, technically speaking, it has been advisable
that Google is not capable of assortment all 11.5 billion pages presently
believed to be online (and the 10 million more that are additional every day), and that as it indexes new pages, old pages are pushed out of the index. (This is a really rough description of the theory - if it's happening at all, it's likely to be far more complex
than this.) If this is happening, it may explain why the reportable number of indexed pages is reducing. Tho'
I think it's a long shot, a nice way to deal with it is to maintain high quality content, to support increasing it, to support generating backlinks, and to generate a Google sitemap. To find out more just about sitemaps, go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login . To transfer
a free - and really useful - tool for generating a sitemap, go to http://johannesmueller.com/gs/ .
I cognize there's a lot of confusion close
these issues, so I hope you've found this exchange helpful.
Happy indexing!
Just just about the author:
* Cosmonaut Murray is a website copywriter, SEO copywriter, and article submission and article PR specialist. He owns article submission service Article PR and copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on State capital
+612 4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com Visit http://www.DivineWrite.comor http://www.ArticlePR.comfor further details, more FREE articles, or to transfer
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