link: not showing results even though there are links ?

Hi Group,
Hope you can give some pointers, I am scratching my head on this one.

I have a website that has links that are returned in Google when I run a
"+thewebsite.com" into google. It lists a whole host. When I do a
"link:thewebsite.com", it returns none, even though there are links there
when doing "+thewebsite.com"

Any ideas ? I think that is why the site is not coming up anywhere in
google, even after optimising and it having been up for over 2 years ?

Any pointers appreciated all - I hope that didn't invite the flame throwers.
;-)

Many thanks and Regards,
Paul

Same happens with my site, although I get very good rankings in Google.
Link: used to work fine in Google - I have over 200 natural (earned)
links. Yahoo, MSN, etc., all show them but Google always lists sevn
internal links and one external - always the same one.

Doesn't seem to affect the ranking, so I ignore it.

__/ [ Paul ] on Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:59 \__

Hi Group,
Hope you can give some pointers, I am scratching my head on this one.

I have a website that has links that are returned in Google when I run a
"+thewebsite.com" into google. It lists a whole host. When I do a
"link:thewebsite.com", it returns none, even though there are links there
when doing "+thewebsite.com"

Any ideas ? I think that is why the site is not coming up anywhere in
google, even after optimising and it having been up for over 2 years ?

Any pointers appreciated all - I hope that didn't invite the flame
throwers. ;-)

Many thanks and Regards,
Paul

First of all, make sure that links pointing to your site are not
rel="nofollow"ed (see ongoing discussion in the recent thread: "Google -
Code Jam"). Additionally, be aware that "link:site" only lists a *subset* of
links. Try the same syntax in Yahoo. They accumulate and make visible more
links, albeit most remain out of sight (/site!) while only the high number
stands.

Lastly, what is the value of your inbound links? They surely do not arrive
from 'islands' because your search for "+thewebsite.com" came up with some
results.

Hope it helps,

Roy

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On Tue, 2 May 2006 15:59:13 +0100, "Paul" <paul (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi Group,
Hope you can give some pointers, I am scratching my head on this one.

I have a website that has links that are returned in Google when I run a
"+thewebsite.com" into google. It lists a whole host. When I do a
"link:thewebsite.com", it returns none, even though there are links there
when doing "+thewebsite.com"

Any ideas ? I think that is why the site is not coming up anywhere in
google, even after optimising and it having been up for over 2 years ?

Any pointers appreciated all - I hope that didn't invite the flame throwers.
;-)

Many thanks and Regards,
Paul

What's the site please?

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