link partners who aren't indexed

[TampaREOman]

Hello everyone

I am going through all my links and cleaning up the partners who haven't linked to me and who have other links besides Real Estate related links. What I started doing is putting their link page, where I am located, into Google's search bar. Some come up fine, but most don't.

For those websites' links pages that do NOT show up in a google search, I have changed their link on my website to point to that particular link page.

My question is, will that help google index their link pages, since all of my pages are indexed (except my BRAND new link pages)?


PS.....no one that I have linked to on this site has had this issue.....hmm, I wonder if there is a connection

[webmaster]

Changing their links, will help the link page they have you on get you listed, but you are in turn taking away the benefit that you would have been providing them and this is not really fair to your partners.

What I would do instead, is evaluate the linking architecture of the site - if they link to their resource page, or a hub page that links to the page that you are on, and the links are html text links, it could just be that they have not been indexed yet - but they will be in due time. If you cannot navigate from the homepage to the page you are in easily (Within 2 clicks) then neither can the spiders. Also make sure you are taking into account the overall presentation of the site - on pages that are having caching issues, do they also employ tons of spammy text, hidden links, keyword stuffed meta tags etc, those people are likely not people you want to link with anyways.

Keep in mind, many sites are new, and / or their links pages are new as well, so it does not necessarily indicate that there is something wrong with their site.

[TampaREOman]

well, to be totally honest, all of these links have been on my website since before I came here. Since the first day I came here, I have only partnered with REW members and all of their link pages are indexed......so far

Since I started checking all of these links, I have been checking for spammy stuff, hidden links, and non-related links. It has taken close to 10 hours the last few days to go through and search everyone's "resource" or "Partners" page. They have all been within 2 clicks except one that I just removed yesterday.

On the fairness issue....I kinda feel like I have been giving them way more exposure because my link pages have been indexed a while.....especially when it was only ONE page. I plan on checking back in the next update and I will change them back. It has only been eight websites so far and I am almost finished. Plus I copied the links in Word so I would know which ones they are.

I think it is only fair that I try to help them get their link page indexed. If it were merely a time issue, then I would think they would have had ample time to be indexed....at least 3 months. If they don't get indexed in the next update with me doing what I've done to try to help.....I will just remove their link and email them to tell them to do the same.

I definitely do not plan on screwing anyone over and will be agressively monitoring their links from my page and once they are indexed...I will be changing them back. As you can see, I stay up VERY late working on these kinds of things.

I'm just trying my best to get more links seen by G. I have close to 200 outgoing links, but only 20 incoming....instead of just removing these sites from my website, I am trying to remedy in a positive way.

[webmaster]

I hear you Jesse, I wasnt meaning to imply that all the sites that werent cached, werent screwing you, I was merely trying to suggest possible alternatives - I realize that link checking can be time consuming, and in fact we dont do it. We assume that there will be between 25-50% links that either never get cached, are taken down or are somehow masked and just move forward building more links its more productive from our standpoint.

When you are saying you have only 20 incoming links, does that mean only 20 links that show up when you check link:www.yourdomain.com in google? If this is the case, then you should also be aware that google does not report all of your backlinks, just a small sample set, thus dont use that figure to determine how many links are actually counting that were given, as it is not accurate.

[TampaREOman]

yeah, that link:www.mydomain.com is what sent me on this journey of checking my outgoing links....In doing so, I have sent approximately 25 emails to the webmasters telling them that I will keep checking and remove their links if I am not active within a couple days. It chaps my rear to put in the time, just to have someone lie to you. I am also glad I did this because I have removed some websites that were not REW approved (spam, unrelated links, etc, etc...) This way I have totally cleaned at least MY site's links and can add more quality links from this site

[jstcrzyengh]

I do not use google to check to see if someones site is working for me I check Yahoo, usually something along the lines of:

linkdomain:www.mysite.com +site:www.theirsite.com

If yahoo doesnt have them as a backlink than I go to the page where I was last linked and see if I am still there. If there page has changed since we first exchanged to make the site lose PR or to get decached than they have broken the "contract" with me and I pull their link. I am VERY maticulous with my link exchanges and my link partners will never come back to find that the page they were listed on is suddenly decached, I actually am building a program right now for my own personal use to aid in the linking situation as of right now I have about 5 different excel documents with my link exchanges. One is "current link exchange", one is linked and the page lost PR, was decached, etc... I call this one "devalued", and than another is the ones where I contacted them added their link and they never responded to the email. this is my do not contact file, and the other is the trash file. The trash file is special for the ones I contacted and told me they would not link with me, usually, because the page they were to be listed on didnt meet their PR "Requirements" IE PR4 and above. The reason I call it trash is that my site(s) rank very well, in fact my "link" pages actually rank for major keywords so my partners get real traffic AND a very strong backlink. I refuse to link to these people ever again. What is funny since I have been ranking so well a lot of these people "forgot" about their "requirements" and have emailed me for exchange. I just reply back that their site doesnt meet our requirements for exchange

I am as well about to totally "clean House" and go through all 1500 backlinks on one site to make sure that everything is clean from now on as I will be running a very large campaign here in the next few weeks for my two new sites. I just hire one of my friends for the day that needs cash that knows what I need done and I start anew on Monday.