Hello everyone

I wonder if the 'great and good' would have a ponder over my dilema with Google. Although I have had my site up and running for nearly 4 years, I do not consider myself in any way to be a good 'webmaster'....I am very much an amateur, i don't pretend to understand how all this works.

As I said, my site has been up and running for almost 4 years. I have a Google ranking of 4 which in my business isn't bad. When I checked the last cache Google had of my homepage it was only a week old as recent changes had been included. So, everything should be hunky dory right? eeerrr No.

When I check the links of my competitors according to Google, there are plenty of links to their own sites pages. When I checked how many pages were listed in Google for my site...I got 1...my Homepage. I have over 300 pages in my site but none of them are seen by Google. Now I think most of these are my fault as the links to them are photos without text....I have only just discovered that there should be text links that the spider can follow (is that right?). But even so, my Homepage has 6 text links that appear on every page in my site, the naviagtion bar, but even these do not appear to have been seen by Google despite there being a lot of text content on these pages.

I have one more site that I started a few months ago, also ranked in Google. Of 13 pages Google sees 3. Even though its not great , its better than 1 and shows that the same software that I used for the second site is not to blame.

My main site is www.withlovefromvoronezh.com and the second one is www.russianextremetours.com

I don't have much hair left so if anyone with a clue could offer any ideas it would save me going completely bald by about a couple of years at least!!

Cheers
Steve

well, will you credit it, the day I post asking for help about my dissappearing website, when I checked it a few mins ago...hey presto, the pages were showing that were not last night....does Google read this noticeboard????


So Google can see my 600 odd pages at last....but it still doesn't count any of them as links whereas it does for my competitors....any ideas?

Steve

There was some kind of update that occoured in the last 24 hours. I noticed some juggling of search results in G. I would just wait until the next backlinks update, and see what happens.

Did you recently change your robots.txt file?

Y! shows you have 614 backlinks. Y! has a more thorough backlinks tool. G likes to sandbox, filter, and outright exclude some backlinks from their "link:" tool. Try this:
Go to Y! and type in the search field link:http://www.withlovefromvoronezh.com and hit search. This is a better backlinks result.

I think G does use some of the links not included in their own link results, but not nearly as much as the ones that appear the the link results. It is possible that your links either haven't built enough "weight" to be counted, or they are sandboxed.

Just keep building and getting incoming links.

Hi and welcome aboard!