Links showing up for Google

[waynelong]

If I add 100 links from pages indexed by Google - what percentage would show up when searching Google links and how long after they are added the links before this increase would show up??

[Ryan Ward]

Wayne,

Wayne MSN has me at about 475, Yahoo at about 180 and G shows 0. I know that they have many of my links because if I do a search for Ryan Ward Alpharetta, I see a bunch of them including press releases, city-data, epowerred, reals, etc... I don't know the importance of it but, like you I just want to see some. Also, it seems like most of the sites at the top of important keyword searches show some backlinks from G. I wonder if there is any relevance to that.

[waynelong]

I have added probably 200 backlinks in the last month that are on indexed pages but I am showing 10 from G just like I was a month ago. I know they only show a percentage but I would like to see some increase. Maybe they have to age. I have been told that the age of a backlink also carries some significance on pr but I don't know enough to know if that is true. Maybe some of the pros on the forum will shed some light on this for us. Wayne

[webmaster]

Google only updates their backlink count every couple of months, also when they do, they only show a small sample of what backlinks they actually have, so don't count on Google showing an accurate count of links.

[waynelong]

Thanks. Do you think they use a % like 10% or 5% or something like that. I know they show more for sites that have more. Wayne

[webmaster]

I am sure it is more about trust and page rank than it is about a % - for instance if site x links to you is a trusted source and has high page rank (Not toolbar rank, real pagerank) then it is more likely to show up as a link.