PR of 4 (?) but google shows ZERO links

[cctech]

Can one of you experts explain that to me? I check the PR (http://www.checkpagerank.com) and it shows a 4 (sometimes).

I go to google, link:crystalcoasttech.com and it shows no links.

I go to yahoo, same thing.

MSN, however, shows 744

Am I doing something wrong? Am I being penalized?

Any help is really appreciated.

[flanok]

Google does not show all its links.

I have 1700 links in MSN but only 49 show in Google.

It does know how many you have or you would not have a PR of 4.

As for Yahoo it does seem unusual if you are listed on Yahoo and have been for a while. However, if it is a relativly new site, you will find that Yahoo is slower than the rest.

Mark

[cctech]

thanks flanok,

it seems that google should at least show SOME links for my site. we show up in google when performing a search, etc. doesn't that seem odd?

we have ben listed in yahoo since approx. december '05. any other thoughts?

thanks

[flanok]

OK, First point, there are others on this forum more experienced than I am, so you will need a second opinion.

You are listed as http://crystalcoasttech.com rather than http://www.crystalcoasttech.com on Yahoo. Why did you do this? Which one does your backlinks link to? If they are to www. then that will explain no baclinks in Yahoo.
You are listed as www, on Google.

I think you are having a problem being spydered as Google is not recognising your internal pages either.

Your title appears very long, difficult for search engines to catorise.

You description tag may also be too long. (I say maybe.)It covers too many subjects.
I had a problem being spydered by yahoo when my description tag had too few words.

Your keyword meta tags. You have not separated your words with a space after the coma. It may be possible that search engines just see this as a very long word.

If it can't spyder your site easily it may just not bother.

[cctech]

i have received similar observations from others regarding my site. we are going to do a 301 redirect (i have a question about this posted in another topic) as soon as we get some guidance.

i am not sure where the www. version came from. i think that while we were submitting the site, we typed in BOTH forms of the url and so, here we are.

your point about the space after the comma is new. we were not aware that there was a standard. we have seen some sites with a comma and a space, some with just a comma and no space and some with just a space and no comma. perhaps someone else can expound on the proper method?

thanks again for your help with this so far!

[koha]

I go to google,link:crystalcoasttech.com and it shows no links.

Try using
@:yourdomain
insted of
link:yourdomain
You will be amazed.
I don't however know what this means maybe some of the experts can elaborate.

http://brassmein.com
http://comsee.net
http://myselma.net

[cctech]

The results are somewhat different when using your suggestion. I too would like to know why that is.

[cbp]

@:yourdomain and link:yourdomain are different as you are searching for different things.

CBP

[cctech]

cbp,

can you elaborate on flanok's last post? are those observations correct?

also, do you know why there would be such a large discrepancy between link: in MSN VSS link: in yahoo and google?

thanks

[cbp]

A link: search in Google, Yahoo and MSN return the link sample that those search engine choose to display. Google choose to display a small random sample of the links they know about and use. MSN and Yahoo choose to show most of the links they know about and use.

A @:domain is NOT a search for backlinks. It is a search for pages that contant the url - while most will probably be links, it will also return pages in which the URL is mention, but not linked.

CBP