Backwards linking - What's going wrong?

Although I've created links from many directory sites - I dont seem to be getting any reward from Google It has a google importance of zero (although it did once appear to give a 3 ? ? ? ? strange)

The majority of the sites i've submitted to are well known and should give give me some nice meaty links but alas . . . .

Any clues ? Anyone?

Thanks
Paul

http://rydertech.co.uk

Are the links going through some kind of cgi script? If they are, Google most likely won't count them.

Gringo.

I know I've asked this before, but how does one get G to recognize a backward link and maintain tracking from that link?

-Nate

Tracking from an external link to your site can be done by using the refferer field in your server logs.

Like this:

3484 13.87% 3484 0 48538880 28.11% | http://www.google.com/

Cheers,

MmmHmm... Any other ways?

-Nate

Yes, if all of the pages on your site go through some common code where they have access to the refferer data your web server provides.

But once again it is the same data as in the reffer field in the servers log file.

Cheers,

I did a reverse search on your site and only saw three or four links, one a grey bar. If you have more it may take a month to see results.

Hmmm I still dont really understand this . . .
The referrer stuff could be a google etc search theres no indication that the referrer is actually a backwards link - unless u do a bit of investigation for the site. (and with my many thousands of hits a day it'd take too long!) - well ok a couple of minutes!
;)
Thanks anyway Paul

No the links arent going through any script.
Hmmmm
Paul

Paul,

Nate had a question part of which wasn't directly related to yours.

In your case just keep on geting back links, remember they have to be there when the deep crawl gets to the sites. Make sure it is of the form <a href= .... > </a> and not through redirect scripts at the very best the redirect scripts that generate <a href=...> </a> will actually link to you from a lower PR page than the redirect script is on. PR4 and above is required of the backlinks and of your page in order to appear in Googles link:www.yoursite.com results.

Tracking comes in many flavors. You can track the traffic from other sites (there has to be a link there by default) or you can have an automated script check that links are where the other sites said they were and in fact are of the correct form to get counted.

You also must take into consideration that the PR of the page your link is on can change over time and the amount that gets sent your way can change even if the sending pages PR doesn't.

Cheers,