Am i getting backlink benefits from sites i design and host

[nooptee]

I own & host over 300 domains for as many businesses. They all link back to my site from every page. but seomoz shows only hundred. so do other seo tools. why is that?

[EGOL]

I didn't attribute the thumbs down to any specific person and did see that you gave the "good answer" award.

Lots of people think that their attribution links are good as gold.  I thought it was one of them giving the thumbs down.

If you click thumbs up, I think that the thumbs down will disappear.  

[nooptee]

Not sure why you concluded I gave the thumbs down intentionally!

If you notice i clicked good answer as soon as I read it and I thought it was helpful, which is also evident in my reply. If anything it would have been inadvertent. Please, be gentle..

Lynn, your answer was awesome.. thanks once again..

[EGOL]

For your question regarding the benefit, site wide links especially on the same host (or a handful of hosts) all pointing to you are not going to give you much benefit and could potentially bring penalties...............

This was a really good answer... don't know why anyone would give it thumbs down.   Probably same type of person who shoots the messenger.

[AlanMosley]

I also used to put a link on sites I made, because the sites were rarely relevant I did not think they would be of much value but it wouldn't hurt.

That has changed, my site dropped of the map when penguin came in, it only came back when I removed lots these but not only these types of links.

[nooptee]

Not parked. active domains with thousands of pages each that we have built for our clients over the last 6 years.

[LynnPatchett]

A million pages linking in is a whole lot! I would be very careful if those are mainly site wides, it is asking for trouble.

As for the seomoz tool, I too sometimes wish it would show a link it is not, but patience is a virtue. If the site is decently linked, the seomoz bot will likely get to it at some point.

Try looking at it another way though. If a link is continuously NOT showing in the seomoz report it is a pretty strong indication in many instances that the link/page has a really low benefit. Really low in this case would mean pretty much non existent. So in that respect I find the seomoz link reports useful for focusing much more on quality than quantity if you see what I mean.

[giasungoaithuong]

you can use the private ip service. I think that is very good like ix webhosting

[nooptee]

That helps..

I did a google webmaster tools link lookup and i see all my sites with over a million pages linking in.

I guess that makes me somewhat happy that google has found them. I understand what you said about site wide links. i will work on that.

But makes me wonder how much importance I should give seomoz tools at this point!

Thanks for your reply!

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Anoop,

For your question regarding the benefit, site wide links especially on the same host (or a handful of hosts) all pointing to you are not going to give you much benefit and could potentially bring penalties. Be especially careful about stuffing keywords into those links. Your best bet if you want to keep the reference to you as a designer is to put the links only on the hompage or alternatively on a site credits type page and keep them to branded links only (ie the name of your company).

As to why all of them are not showing up in your reports, seomoz and other tools can only ever index a subset of all the links/pages on the web. I would think that the sites that are not showing up maybe have small link profiles (few external links from other sites) and as such are just not getting crawled that often because references to them from other sites are not found that often. Over time if their link profiles get stronger then you will likely start to see more of them appear in the reports.

Hope that helps!

[Bondara]

They have to be found before they can show.

I assume these are parked domains?