Online Marketing Blog - Latest Comments in Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Jun Valasek — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:11:37 -0000

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..

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Lee Odden — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:05:39 -0000

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.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Matt Keegan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:41:32 -0000

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.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Michael Visser — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:32:16 -0000

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

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Jason Bartholme — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:42:33 -0000

Those are some massive numbers. It give me something to shoot for with my paltry 9k links, according to Site Explorer.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Zen Zoomie — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:30:58 -0000

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?

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Daniel — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:36:16 -0000

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?

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Gray — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:33:26 -0000

More information that i will put to use. Thanks.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Teejay — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:34:41 -0000

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.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

@Michael_Martinez — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:10:22 -0000

My links have to be earned, Lee. Even I have to earn them. :)

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Lee Odden — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:04:54 -0000

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.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

@Michael_Martinez — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:48:03 -0000

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.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Dan Schawbel — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:15:41 -0000

Good to see your right in the prime spot.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Lee Odden — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:04:47 -0000

Hey Dave, you've been added!

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

DaveN — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:00:56 -0000

me :)
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Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Bill Hartzer — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:28:58 -0000

Great post, Lee...is an interesting post that will definitely help me with some link building.

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

Will Rowan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:23:07 -0000

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

Re: Top SEO Blogs by Link Popularity

JLH — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:13:03 -0000

Quite an accomplishment, congratulations are in order.