stootteslache
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If you want to find out all the links to your site that Google knows about (not just the ones it says it knows about) then you can do a search in Google for"www.yoursitename.com" -site:www.yoursitename.comwhich will return all indexed pages that have the literal "www.yoursitename.com" on the page (as a URL or not) except those from your site.This may be posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it, and finally figured it out myself... so - may be helpful.It will be useful to people who have a lot of backlinks but very low pagerank on google.It will provide them an analytical tool to reduce poor backlinks and increase quality of the links to their site which would possibly increase pagerank as quality is seen as more important over quantity ( due to many link exchanges that have no relevant linking information).Hi all,I'm no expert at this sort of thing, so this might be a real stoopid thing to ask, but here goes ... I tried the above for my site "cyphoto.co.uk", and got a rather odd result.The last link shows as ...http://64.41.125.45/cgi-bin/extras/extra.pl?ref=108like this ...This looked strange to me, so I clicked on it and after an age I got an error 404. The second time I tried it, I got something to do with "WonderText" !The IP address appears to belong to a group called "info2text", judging by their website, but what I don't understand is how Google "sees" a link to my website.Can any of you collected geniuses (sp?) enlighten me at all?I'm just interested, as oposed to worried. A link is a link (within reason), and I certainly need 'em!ThanksByzantium wrote:I am no enlightened genius.However, in the text immediately under the link provided it shows the text - link:www.cyphoto.co.uk along with other websites as well.google spider is likely reading that as linking to your website and since the link contains your website url it will return in the results as linking to your site.the site:url shows what sites are linked to yours so google is simply returning that info. - maybe one of the enlightened genius' would be able to describe in detail with the technical apsects lol.. as far as I can see it really is simply because of the text: link:www.cyphoto.co.uk appearing.Hi Ganceann,thanks for the pointer, but what I wondered was where did Google get that text string from?If you look at any pages on the website (if you follow the link) you don't get anything even remotely resembling what you see in the Google search result, and certainly no mention of my website URL.Just seemed a bit odd, thats all, but as you say, I'm sure that one of 'the enlightened ones' could explain it simply enough! It could simply just be cached content or a snapshot or something.As I said am not expert lol google can send a bot at a time where that address had something... then if its tooken away or modifyed it stills indexed on google.try look at the cached version of that page to check wich content was there when google crawled it.