I recently received still another 'please help' mail from the lady named Ian who runs a venture company in Tanzania (http://www.betheladventure.co.uk ). Ian was concerned with the result of the number of problems including indexing and link dampening, and was desperate for help. Unfortuitously, he'd read some pretty misleading articles before, so he had a somewhat confusing knowledge of the facets at play. Since I suspect he is not alone in his distress and concern, I made a decision to publish the details of our discussion.
Ian's e-mail contains a few issues. I have shown each individually below, followed by my answer.
Q: When I search for the number of backlinks to my website using 'link:www.betheladventure.co.uk', I see only 2-3 results. It appears that only 23 of our backlinks have survived Google's dampening link filter. Will there be a period delay before they're credited to a site? '
A: Firstly, I do believe you may have the dampening link filter somewhat puzzled. According to the dampening link filter theory, your links are observed and recognized by Google, you just do not get the full advantage from them until certain period of time has elapsed. The dampening link filter (if it exists) does not stop links from appearing in Google's results when you look for them. (The only reason your backlinks mightn't appear in a Google search is if Google has not yet found the pages containing the links.) Also, do not worry too much about things such as the dampening link filter. For a start, it is far from proven / acknowledged fact. Many well regarded Search Engine Optimization authorities do not believe in it at all. More over, even when it does exist, it only affects those businesses together with the budget to build the large numbers (hundreds or thousands possibly) of links reputedly needed to induce it. That is not a problem, if your amount of backlinks suddenly increases by 20.
And subsequently, do not feel every thing Google tells you. By looking for 'link:www.betheladventure.co.uk', you generally only view a small proportion of real links to your website. Should people want to be taught supplementary info on backlink indexer, we recommend heaps of libraries you should think about pursuing. The best way to search for links will be to search for just the URL 'www.bethaladventure.co.uk', then to the page that displays next, select 'Find webpages that contain the word 'www.bethaladventure.co.uk' .' Whenever you do it this way, you'll see all the pages which contain your URL. In most cases, the URL will be an energetic link (or at least it should be, and you should ask them to make it so). Linklicious Alternative is a splendid online library for more about the meaning behind it. Whenever you do this search, you'll see that your website has about 169 links, maybe not 23.
Q: Another question is about indexed pages (using site:www.betheladventure.co.uk). I realize this is a history of pages which have been changed. Linkilicious.Me includes extra information about why to allow for this belief. I'd 32, it went down to 28 and now today it is down to 26. If you believe anything at all, you will perhaps hate to explore about wholesale linklicious alternative. Do they just keep the pages for a month or is there more to the pages than I realized?
A: The number of indexed pages is simply the number of pages in your site that Google 'knows about.' Theoretically, the only time age a page is necessary is if the page is also young*, i.e. Google lions haven't visited it nevertheless, or Google hasn't updated its index. As to the reasons the reported number of indexed pages is reducing, I suppose it is just a temporary transfer. The amount of leads to Google's searches varies pretty much constantly.
*Actually, formally speaking, it has been suggested that Google isn't capable of indexing all 11.5 billion pages currently thought to be online (and the 10 million more that are added everyday), and that as it indexes new pages, old pages are pushed out from the index. (This is a really rough description of the idea - if it's happening at all, it is likely to be a lot more difficult than this.) If this is happening, it might explain why the number of indexed pages is reducing. A good way to cope with it's to maintain high quality information, to keep generating backlinks, to keep raising it, and to generate a Google sitemap, although I think it is a long-shot. To learn more about sitemaps, go-to http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login.. To down load a free - and invaluable - tool for making a sitemap, visit http://johannesmueller.com/gs/..
I know there is lots of confusion surrounding these issues, so I hope you've found this trade valuable.
Happy indexing!.
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