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Thanks for the Sphinn and kudos! Jill I mistyped in my interview - most of the tools on that page are free, not all. I will mention this to my interviewer and see about a correction. G
THANK YOU! I'm glad you all dug our article! I wrote the body and then Ben Wills edited and made it sing/sell ;). Also he compiled the list of top deal and coupon sites for deal submissions :) Happy holidays, happy selling to all.
Doh! You beat me to the submit! Here’s my intro:Watch Neal deliver good LOLs and great advice on leveraging social news for link building, brand building and maximizing social news return. Fast paced video of his presentation at IM Spring Break, in Deerfield Beach Florida - April 2, 2009.Good stuff Neal.
Hi Harry - thanks for the Sphinn, and glad to hear you’re incorporating some of the link acceleration tactics. May I be so bold as to ask which ones? and in what situations?
NICE! Thanks for addressing my cheesy question :)I am very impressed with your operation (and this tool of course)!G
Trivial to code a scraper to capture all that data? Now who’s teasing? ;) Especially when you’re working at large scale... I’m not saying it’s rocket science of course, but it’s certainly not trivial.We’ve found that TBPR is useful in aggregate - especially alongside relevance metrics.Very interesting thoughts re: cache dates and crawl frequency. These dates could certainly add a nice layer of insight into a site’s value within a set of link prospects. If we were to add something like this to the by-hand worksheet we already made, what do you think it should look like so that curious SEOs could try it themselves?G
@linkmoses - hey Eric, thanks again for your comment - I responded at SEL :)@halfdeck - It’s highly tedious and less accurate to gather information for qualifying link prospects by hand. However, for link builders who haven’t created tools our process should help to process and qualify reasonably large sets of urls for faster and more efficient link building... so long as it’s interns/outsourcers putting all those 1s in the columns ;)We use scrapers/crawlers to gather over 70 points of data per link prospect, on link prospect sets of 150k+ urls. At that scale, well, yeah. Gotta keep it automated.Can you link to methods/metrics for measuring real internal PageRank?G
Thanks for the Sphinn vermasaurav! I’d like to add that there’s also a downloadable worksheet we created for this article (a prize inside ;) that comes pre-programed with calculations that enable link builders to measure the relevance, value and potentiality of any link prospect.Try prospecting with that new SEOMoz tool (http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/) and then qualify your link prospects using our worksheet :)G
lol :) that’s what Ben tells me... luckily I’m the content link builder, he’s the developer/CEO ;Dstealth pitch:BTW we (Ben and I at Ontolo) spend ALL our time looking for links - the market "encouraged" us to specialize as a link research company, rather than as link builders. We got really good at finding, organizing and ranking link opportunities and so far that’s been highly attractive to link building firms.btw I really really dug this thread you added to at WMW GREAT BRAIN FOOD:http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3893713.htm
Hey PageOne,I have not personally received a 403 - and Ben Wills, my business partner in Ontolo, doesn’t anymore ;)I am researching/aggregating for an article on linkbuilding search operators and Brian Gilley wrote this article in response to my request for input...We would not conduct the types of searches associated with Google Dorks... I assume you’re referring to the more exploitative types of searches?G
Great article by Loren Baker - excellent advice and a good experience-based comment thread starting there too.
Apparently Google’s launching a site/page about their servers:http://twitter.com/google/status/1440093160Also see: Rough Notes: Data Center Efficiency Summithttp://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/01/RoughNotesDataCenterEfficiencySummit.aspxAnd, based on the comments at that CNet story, the choice of April 1st to begin discussing this was unfortunate... it’s not a prank though :)
This article offers astounding insight into the scale that Googlers have to think...Hints of future revenue growth for Google too:"Google has patents on the built-in battery design, "but I think we’d be willing to license them to vendors," Hoelzle said."Great find.
Story: Paid Links Aren't Bad -- Disruptive Links Are