I need help please - Mlou, Cathy, Tenley, Ryan, 12ducks?

[Dazeal]

Why when I go to google and search for pages that are linked to my webpage (LINK: www.chicfloral.com) the sites I do know about, that are linked to my me, aren't showing up? Does that mean Google isn't Cacheing their pages or is it because those sites don't have certain meta tags to tell a search spider to come/return I.E.<meta name="robots" content=" return 20days"> ? And finally, if Google isn't seeing these sites linked to my site, is it hurting my Google ranking?


And on a side note, why the heck would the below site have my website listed on it?
http://gasprices.finance.bfcl.com.cn/european-gas-prices/

 

[BOSS]

Ooops....I wasn't asked...nevermind...

Side note for others...

Link: www.smithsflowers.com = 61 links

Link: smithsflowers.com = 94 links

Makes a difference how you do the search...above numbers are on Google, MSN shows me with over 125...

Sorry Daz, don't have an answer for you, when I ran yours I only saw 1, and that was the Blog... wonder if were seeing different servers...

 

[CHR]

Brandon -

Google does not show all your inbound links although you can get a close idea of what they recognize by querying your url and enclosing it in quotes. " " (omitting the http:// and/or www). Your site's rankings are generally only affected if the inbound links are taken down by the sites linking to you.

I find MSN to display the most links. Mark is right in that your ulr with and without the www are not necessarily recognized as being the same.

HTH

 

[BBJ (Big Bad John)]

Not only links determine page rank

This is page rankings as found @ http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/
I added the links as per google

http://www.a1florists.com has PageRank 5/10. - 2400 links
http://durantsflowers.com has PageRank 3/10. - 431 links
http://teleflora.com has PageRank 5/10. - 109,000 links
http://www.teleflora.com has PageRank 6/10. - 130,000 links
http://ftd.com has PageRank 7/10. - 305,000 links
http://www.ftd.com has PageRank 7/10. - 203,000 links
http://smithsflowers.com has PageRank 0/10. - 94 links
http://www.smithsflowers.com has PageRank 2/10. - 61 links
http://www.chicfloral.com has PageRank 2/10. - 1 linkAs you can see chickfloral.com still has a ranking of 2 as does smithsflowers.com, and it also takes one h*ll of a pile of links to get a page ranking of 7 and then look at the difference between Boss's rankings the one with more links dosen't even get ranked!!!!

Just one of the mysteries of the intenet, the only important thing is that your website is being found when they look for flowers in your town.

 

[mlou]

And on a side note, why the heck would the below site have my website listed on it?
http://gasprices.finance.bfcl.com.cn...an-gas-prices/

Dazel, short and sweet…these people are parasites similar to our “order gathers”.

This page has an “European gas prices” theme and is developed to generate Google Adsense click thrus (money or commissions) for it’s owners. They need content that will help them rank higher for the words European, gas and prices. They are using the anchor tags to embed these words in their text... Notice the words used for your shop… “European fresh cut floral shop located in Ashland. Includes online catalog with prices for phone ordering.”
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[mlou]

Does that mean Google isn't Cacheing their pages…if Google isn't seeing these sites linked to my site, is it hurting my Google ranking?

Dazel, how about a yes and no answer…

Yes, if the search engines don’t spider the links to your site, they can’t add them to the value of your PageRank or natural listings in their serps, so it hurts your site ranking.

No, Google may have the backlinks in their database but they do not show them all. They made major changes to PageRank this summer and the way they are displaying their backlinks has changed. They are now showing random samples of backlinks. Yahoo does not show all links but will give you a more comprehensive list of links. Another difference in the links that search engines display will be caused by each search engine handling spam filters and dups differently.

Another thought…
To keep the robots from indexing or following links on their link webpage (they don’t want to give up outbound link value) they place the following meta tag in the head of their webpage:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
This tells the robot to exclude this webpage and not to analyze it for links.

Or they place the following tag in the robots.txt file
:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /links.html
This tells all search engines to exclude their link webpage.

or is it because those sites don't have certain meta tags to tell a search spider to come/return I.E.<meta name="robots" content=" return 20days">

Your larger search engines don’t use this tag…

BIG HINT: One of the most overlooked spots for building link popularity is links from vendors for your flower shop WEBSITE.
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[Dazeal]

Thanks a lot you guys!! SEO is my weakness and I am trying to change that! I've learn so much from all of your replies!

Sorry Daz, don't have an answer for you, when I ran yours I only saw 1, and that was the Blog... wonder if were seeing different servers...

Yeah, that is what I saw too Mark. But I am on BBJ site, why doesn't Google show that his site links to me? Mlou, you website ranks incrediby high in my area for florist, so why don;t I just pay you the $50? Well, cause I'm too lazy to mail you a check right now. If you could accept CC, I'll call you today. Thanks for all your Help Mlou, you are such an asset here on FC.