Link popularity is confusing me...

[spartiums]

Hi

I finally think I have figured out how to link correctly to sites...

but when I check my link popularity I am confused...

I want to make sure that any links I have to my home page

http://www.spartium.com/index.htm

are updated to point directly to my domain

http://www.spartium.com

(as I have heard this is better!)

It comes up with 2,940 pointing to

http://www.spartium.com/index.htm

and .... pointing to

http://www.spartium.com

When I then click on the sites that are meant to be pointing to my index.htm - I can't find any that point to index.htm - they seem to be pointing to spartium.com directly...?

Any ideas?

 

[spartiums]

sorry, hit the key before I was ready

There are 7,680 pointing to

http://www.spartium.com

Teeny

 

[coldfused]

Where are you getting those numbers from? How are you checking?

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[spartiums]

Hi - I use Marketleap

http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm

- what do you reckon???

Thanks
Teeny

 

[coldfused]

Dont use those tools. That system is taking all the numbers from all the search engines and adding them up. That is a flawed number. Google, MSN and Yahoo do not show all of your inbound links, Yahoo currently does the best.

In Yahoo's search box type link:

http://www.yoursite.com

That will give you the most accurate number.

If you do that same search in each of the major search engines you will see they all give you different numbers, Google being the least of all. Google does not want you to know the exact number of links because it helps aid in manipulating the searches by pounding inbound links to beat the next guy. They figure if we dont know exactly we wont work as hard to manipulate the links.

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[spartiums]

Thanks CF

Just one more thing

On yahoo when I type in link:

http://www.spartium.com

I get lower results than when I type in

link:

http://www.spartium.com/

i.e. with the backslash at the end....

What does this mean?

Thanks, Teeny

 

[coldfused]

Not sure. Will look into that.

Carl

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[spartiums]

Thanks Carl - I appreciate it...

Teeny