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Backlink Descrepancy?

by RunningBear
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I went to Yahoo's Site Explorer and it showed that I had 139 pages and 199 Inlinks, but when I checked out another blog in my niche, it showed that it had 1 page and 1500 inlinks.

Why would the other blog only show 1 page?

I refreshed my browser several times and got the same result. I know for a fact that the other blog I checked out has more than one page. Plus it has an Alexa rank around 165,000.
#backlink #descrepancy
  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    All those stats should be taken as rough guides, I understand the explorer results van vary day to day, depending on the data center serving you. A robot directive could be limiting page indexing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      The internet is a really big place with millions of new pages being uploaded every day. No matter what the commercials on TV say, there is only ever a certain percentage of pages indexed and it is less than 100 percent. it is kind of like a living, breathing organism kind of thing. That sounds a little weird but that is a fairly accurate way to describe it.

      So pretty much the best you can hope for is a fairly accurate snapshot of what is going on right then and there.

      I believe that the search engines do the best they can and it is good to take a look at some of the statistics they produce but not worry about it a lot. The number that counts the most is how much profit you are making from your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author RunningBear
        Thanks for your quick response. I just don't understand why a site with more than one page, would only have one page show up in site explorer. What I am gathering from your responses is that is just the way the internet works. Oh well....
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