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Links & SEO: The Huge Link Value Factors Survey

Went Hot: December 11, 2007 - 5:28 am
Posted By: hugoguzman 573 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building

A pretty cool survey of 17 notable SEO folks like Aaron Wall, and their opinions on what the most important link-building factors should be. The various factors are ranked on a 5-point scale. Seems fairly useful.

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from keepsakes56 573 days ago #

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How do you determine if a page Link to your site is on penalized page?

from HamletBatista 573 days ago #

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Answer these simple quetions:

1)Is the page indexed?
2)How old is the cache?
3)Is the page ranking for obscure terms found on its contents?

from Sem-Advance 573 days ago #

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Just a question

Do any of the 40 people interviewed work for the company that actually scores the links????

No!

What good was this then???

What is amazing is what worked for SEO 5 years ago still work no matter how many SEO conferences or experts seem to be running amok.

I think the next interview should be how many people love to waste time reading speculative answers without any clear answer as to what works,

from hugoguzman 573 days ago #

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Wow! If ever there was a comment deserving of the old Paul Simon line "a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."

People who know how to build inbound links end up ranking very well for competitive phrases. Therefore, even though they don't work for Google, they can be considered an authorativite source on link-building.

Furthermore, even if you don't work for Google, you can deduce what factors influence rankings.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, this is a site for people that want to read interesting articles about SEO techniques.

If you don't feel that this article is worthwhile then don't sphinn it and just move on.

Don't waste our time with negativity and short-sited rants.

from controltheweb 573 days ago #

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Blogspam? Direct link: http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/#33
(Also see http://sphinn.com/story/17964)

from controltheweb 573 days ago #

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Sem-Advance: Testing, testing, testing.

The same way science works :)

from Sem-Advance 572 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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@Hugo

I have over 500 keywords on googles front pag...including terms over 500,000,000 competing....thanks for the input.

Beside the fact, my rights as a US citizen allow me to post how I wish and not by your rules and regulations ...go try to tell someone without free thought what to do.........

@Control

Point taken :->

Peace!

from hugoguzman 572 days ago #

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Ooh, you have 500 keywords on Google's front page, huh? Wow.

And did you just use the number of results for a search term as proof that it's competitive?

You're most definitely entitled to post whatever you like. And I am most definitely entitled to critique your point of view.

P.S. Controltheweb - thanks for pointing out that this was spam blog post and that the original piece is over at http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/#33. Frankly, I'm pissed at myself for not taking the time to notice when I first posted this. Wish I could change the url my sphinn was pointing to.

from jaybong 572 days ago #

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Also discussed at
http://sphinn.com/story/17964
http://sphinn.com/story/17942

(Above link from controltheweb caught a braket)

@Hugo "Wish I could change the url my sphinn was pointing to"

People could link to reputable sources and then switch to their own sites if the the story became poplular. I assume that's what Pligg (The CMS) is trying to avoid.

Direct link to story (no /#33) http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/

from hugoguzman 572 days ago #

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Good point, jaybong! Maybe there could be some sort of manual edit, if both the poster and admin are in agreement as to the original source.