No links in google? whats wrong?

[MPinelli]

So my site www.lbfoodie.com is showing no links in google. But i get a majority of my traffic from google searches. What gives?

Am i doing something wrong? Are there some tools out there that I can use to check this? The ones I'm using come up 0 as well, but i know my site is #2 for long beach ny restaurants.

also are there any other sites on how to get better rankings and to check if the site is setup correctly for SEO? never really optimized a wordpress site.

 

[silentg]

Did you use Google Webmaster Tools? If not try that. I have noticed that your site gets faster index. Submit a sitemap and it would be quicker too.

 

[MPinelli]

yup i have been using it for a year. thats why im confused

 

[Gerry]

Don't underestimate the power of keywords, metatags, and tags.

Some folks say that Google no longer pays attention to metatags but I always include them (as well as tags for each entry).

 

[Jeroen]

You can use Yahoo Site Explorer to check links.

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.lbfoodie.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

Are you using Google Analytics too?

 

[Biggie]

i see plenty of links or references to your site in G

http://www.google.com/search?q=:lbf...=ivns&ei=vlI3Te70LYXGlQestrGeAw&start=10&sa=N

 

[MPinelli]

wasnt using analytics on this site. im just confused why link:www.lbfoodie.com provides no results

 

[Gerry]

I like URLtrends.com:

General Page Information
Title: Long Beach, NY Restaurant and Dining Reviews
Description: LBFoodie.com is dedicated to bringing you an unbiased report of all the wonderful places to eat in Long Beach, NY. There are many restaurants to choos...

Online Since: Unknown

TIP: Use this menu to navigate this report.
Quick Summary
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This section only shows a small portion of the data we gather. To see all of the information, including the previous trends, use the Trend Report menu to navigate to the information

Google PageRank™: 1/10
Alexa Traffic Rank: 5,350,632

Incoming Google Links: 0
Incoming Yahoo Links: 73
Overall Incoming Links: 75 (Overlap is possible - Estimated 47 unique links)
Outgoing Links: 81 (Ratio: 0.000% - Each Link Receives Approx. 0.010 PR) [ View Outgoing Link History ]

DMOZ Listed: None found for this exact url (View all listings for this domain)

 

[Aleksandar]

It does return results, site:lbfoodie.com 131 results. site:www.lbfoodie.com 59 results.

And yes, it does show up at the second spot for long beach ny restaurants. You're fine, keep up the good work.

As for links, make sure you use yahoo site explorer, google will show only a portion of your backlinks when you use the "link:" operator. Also, www and non www do not return the same results. Always settle with one "url" since those are seen as two different websites.

One more tip, try to optimize the load time, it's too slow, at least for me. Google loves faster sites as well as users do.

You can also use checkpagerank.net for a quick stat summary.

 

[MPinelli]

see urltrends says 0 in google.

site loads pretty quick for me.......anyone have this issue?

 

[Gerry]

it is not unusual to see 0 for google links.

I have a 6 year old site with high alexa, pr3 site and it says 0 "incoming google links"

 

[Jeroen]

wasnt using analytics on this site. im just confused why link:www.lbfoodie.com provides no results

The 'link:' operator in Google doesn't work very well. Other tools do better.

 

[robmac]

try backlinklinkwatch or similar as you def have backlinks to your site. i just checked