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Hello,

We have a question regarding inbound link measurement.

We used to measure our inbound links with yahoo site explorer. Now that it's been shut down we use opensiteexplorer.org. However, Open Site Explorer only shows a fraction of inbound links compared to yahoo site explorer.

For our website www.theprintspace.co.uk yahoo site explorer measured approx. 14,000 inbound links, whereas open Site Explorer only counts approx. 3,000. This is more than 10,000 links less. For our other website www.theprintspace.de Open Site Explorer also shows 3000 links less than Yahoo. How can this be? Does Open Site Explorer count the links in a different way to Yahoo?

Please explain. It would be great if you could help us with this.

Thank you!

Hi Pashmina,

Thanks, that seems to correspond with the type of information I've been finding. So, we could integrate something like TrustPilot or Trusted Shops on our website (so people can make product specific reviews).

And then - is it automatic? Do they automatically show up on our google places page and on our adwords, or do we need to switch something on/do something else?

Thanks so much for the help!

Hi Semil,

Thanks for your answer. I had checked the link before, we were just wondering, which review sites google uses as a source. We have the impression it is only the big e-commerce sites (http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185155). Our reviews are on

Yelp, Qype, Scoot, Remotegoat, viewlondon, tipped.

Do you know if these rating website are in google's "base of sources" and will thus be recognised and used in google adwords as rating extensions?

Thanks for your help, everyone!

Hello,

we have 2 questions, regarding reviews from rating websites.

1. Reviews on google Search

We have several reviews for our website www.theprintspace.co.uk from various rating sites (e.g. qype, yelp, remotegoat, etc.). When searching for theprintspace on google, only some reviews and only some rating website are shown, most are not.

For qype, for instance, we have 8 reviews, but google only indicates that we have 3. The yelp reviews (and many others) are not shown at all. According to google, it takes a maximum of 2 months for the correct number of reviews to be shown on google, but the reviews have been online for over 2 months now.

Is there any way this problem can be solved, so google shows the correct number of reviews?

2. Seller rating extensions on google adwords

We would like the reviews to be displayed in our google adwords as a seller rating extension. These will include the merchant star rating for advertisers that are highly rated on Google Product Search. We are setting up a google merchant account to do so.

Google says:

"Ratings are based on the user reviews collected by Google Product Search, which aggregates reviews from a broad base of sources across the web, including Reseller Ratings, Bizrate, ReviewCentre.com and Viewpoints."

Do you know if the following rating website are in google's "base of sources" and will thus be recognised and used in google adwords as rating extensions?

Yelp

Qype

Scoot

Remotegoat

viewlondon

tipped

Or does google only source from big e-commerce rating websites? How do we get the ratings into our adwords?

Thank you for your help!

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the fast reply, that's great news! We'll crawl our site to sse if everything is ok.

Have a good day!

Hi Ryan,

thanks for all your help so far, we've made most of the changes you suggested. However, I still have a question regarding

- review your site to ensure 100% of your internal links use the "www." domain

Our programmer uses relative addresses in the script for internal links, i.e.

.echte-fotoabzuege.php

instead of

www.theprintspace.de/echte-fotoabzuege.php

However, when hovering over a link on the site, the full address is shown.

Do we have to use the full link address in the script to optimize www.theprintspace.de?

Thanks!

Hi Ryan,

Thanks very much for the fast reply. Really helpful!

At the moment, google indexes our theprintspace.de domain rather than our www.theprintspace.de domain. Would you suggest changing the indexing preference on webmaster tools to www.theprintspace.de or does it not matter, since we have a 301 redirect?

Thanks again for your help!

When checking our domain on yahoo site explorer, different results are shown for www.theprintspace.de and theprintspace.de. We have done a 301 redirect, as we want to optimise our www.theprintspace.de domain. However, we have a lot more backlinks for theprintspace.de. Is there any way of merging the two, so we don't loose all the linkjuice we get for theprintspace.de and use those links to optimise www.theprintspace.de?

Thanks for your help!