Sorry... I really sarcastic... I thought the emoticon was enough.

I realize most social bookmarking links are behind password protected pages and not crawled as a result. The link backs you would get from them would be primarily lead to normal referrals in most instances. Not search engine referrals. Myspace as of last year or so started to encrypt and redirect all of their links so it's highly debatable as to whether they are counted towards anything as well.



I was being sarcastic about the guesstimating too. I personally don't think that a search engine company built for speed would add extra computational overhead to their system by guesstimating how many pages they crawled for your site. It's just my personal opinion that they mean something specifically. I cannot know if the robots was a new addition to your site and those pages where once in the index or not. Perhaps there is a counter rather than a guestimater. However I did read at one point that there is a whole science behind guestimating. I think it's garbage to tell you the truth but who am I to argue with the computer science academics. Who knows what techincal challenges a company like Google has to go through. Maybe guestimating is in use ( don't ask me how a computer guesses ). However, most of my sites do not have a large number of pages in the tally compared to the pages indexed. In nearly all cases for websites with low page counts the number is next to accurate. It is simply something I noticed. I doubt it means anything.

I would think that having a free tool for everybodies use would certainly act as some sort of link bait for sure.

You must have good connections. Good marketing channels... or perhaps you've been link bombing longer than most? I don't doubt that you do well with your business.

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