Quite an accomplishment, congratulations are in order.
Will Rowan
· 2 years ago
I'm so glad you made the point that visitors' first reaction to a page has to satisfy - just driving traffic with huge link numbers is pointless unless it's traffic that's interested in your content. thanks!
Will Rowan
Bill Hartzer
· 2 years ago
Great post, Lee...is an interesting post that will definitely help me with some link building.
So if I use my personal network to link to SEO Theory and get 100,000+ links overnight, will that count?
What about all the RSS feed scraper sites that link to me? If I seed those feeds with links to SEO Theory, will they count?
Link popularity means nothing. It's a number.
Lee Odden
· 2 years ago
It's funny you put it that way Michael as I've noticed that many of the links Yahoo detects are not really links at all. For example, when one site "borrows" another site's image, Yahoo site explorer sees that as a link.
Am not sure if you caught it, but the reason I did this post was because of OMB's exclusion from Rand's list.
By the way, let's see that 100k links put into practice. I'd like to see if you can really do that.
Michael Martinez
· 2 years ago
My links have to be earned, Lee. Even I have to earn them. :)
Teejay
· 2 years ago
An interesting post but makes me think if all those links really relevant to the blog. SEOBook's links might be just because the affiliate links.
Congrats to those blogs that made it.
Gray
· 2 years ago
More information that i will put to use. Thanks.
Daniel
· 2 years ago
That's a quite interesting comparison. So Aaron Wall is on top, and his just one. He wrote a Book, but not any book. The SEOBook. Ok, I agree, links mean that they are all worthy, but can you quantify and say that if Aaron Wall's SEOBook is 4 times larger than SERoundtable with 403,000 links, the SEOBook is 4 times better or 4 times more appropriate? Probably not. What do you think?
Zen Zoomie
· 2 years ago
Very interesting...I suspect one reason Aaron Wall's SEOBook site is on top is the number of affiliates gunning for a commission on a sale. Just look around and see how many Blogs about Blogging, SEO, SEM, etc. have an affiliate link back to him on their sidebar (which means it shows up in every permalinked post in many cases). Is there a backlink counting tool that counts the number of unique domains (not URLs) that link to a particular URL?
Jason Bartholme
· 2 years ago
Those are some massive numbers. It give me something to shoot for with my paltry 9k links, according to Site Explorer.
Michael Visser
· 2 years ago
Hi Lee,
Haven't crawled your site in awhile, good to see some nice posts waiting to be consumed!
These link popularity contests has stirred up quite an uproar with Australian bloggers as neither Google (using "link:"), Yahoo (using Yahoo! Site Explorer) or MSN (using "link:") give reliable results, the number of inbound links varies enormously. What are you thoughts on the inconsistency of reported links?
Cheers. :D
Matt Keegan
· 2 years ago
Amazing numbers, indeed! I guess I'll have to work on raising my 12K score a bit, maybe doubling it over the next year or so.
Lee Odden
· 2 years ago
Hi Michael, I think the inconsistencies with link data has to be taken with a relative grain of salt just like we do with the search volume numbers given by keyword research tools.
Over time, these sorts of measurements can provide insight, but a one time snapshot is pretty much useless.
Jun Valasek
· 1 year ago
How I wish my blog will be included in this list a year from now... I think everything is possible if we continue the hard work in promotion..
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Will Rowan
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What about all the RSS feed scraper sites that link to me? If I seed those feeds with links to SEO Theory, will they count?
Link popularity means nothing. It's a number.
It's funny you put it that way Michael as I've noticed that many of the links Yahoo detects are not really links at all. For example, when one site "borrows" another site's image, Yahoo site explorer sees that as a link.
Am not sure if you caught it, but the reason I did this post was because of OMB's exclusion from Rand's list.
By the way, let's see that 100k links put into practice. I'd like to see if you can really do that.
Congrats to those blogs that made it.
Haven't crawled your site in awhile, good to see some nice posts waiting to be consumed!
These link popularity contests has stirred up quite an uproar with Australian bloggers as neither Google (using "link:"), Yahoo (using Yahoo! Site Explorer) or MSN (using "link:") give reliable results, the number of inbound links varies enormously. What are you thoughts on the inconsistency of reported links?
Cheers. :D
Over time, these sorts of measurements can provide insight, but a one time snapshot is pretty much useless.