I’m so happy!  live search now return links to a page !!! w0000t

 :D

Why I am happy, well live/msn has been key for me in the past for when I go hunting.. What makes msn different is that you can find the links to a page and add a keyword… Here is and example :

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%2Blinkdomain%3Awww.seohome.co.uk+gabs&form=QBRE

This then returns all the links to seohome which relate to the word “gabs” …

Massive tip here.. Have a look at your competitor links for the page the ranks with the keywords e.g. the above link will allow you to see why or why not seohome ranks for gabs

My info here on the link command and screen shots if you can’t see it yet: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015308.html

Sorry to anyone this may offend but come on…

To build links you don’t need to just go to TLA and spend $$$ or link sales in DP… So many ways to get “real” links..

Rember life before TLA ?

I blogging this cos I keep hearing people post that google is going to drive link buying “under ground” but come on.. Anyone who has built link has not just bought them.. The amount of emails I send asking for articles or competitions, you know “would you like to enter” create linkage…

But the above then suggests that that is sneaky, underhand and EVEN “underground” … At no point do any guidelines say your not aloud to approach a webmaster about the content of a site….

Super markets:
I’m not a fan of super markets but most lazy people are… 1 place to buy everything.. I really hate shopping centers (malls) why oh why…. Local shops.. small shops are much better..

So if I’m shopping in small shops then those are classified a “underground ?
 

Many many big and small sites have lost massive amount of green juice (PR) today and it would seem that a common factor is that each site sells / looks like it sells links…

One that hasn’t been effected is w3schools (but imho its been blocked from passing “any / much” PR to its advertisers a long time ago).. One interesting thing with w3schools is that its not linking to its advertisers from the homepage… hmmm..

So don’t linky from your hp and your fine ? Is the radar only working on hp links then…

Some massive sites have been hit like phpbb, statcount, forbes, sert and many more…

We shall wait and see…

Matt has posted over on DP about directories and what value there may have:

 ”Q: Hey, as long as we’re talking about directories, can you talk about the role of directories, some of whom charge for a reviewer to evaluate them?
A: I’ll try to give a few rules of thumb to think about when looking at a directory. When considering submitting to a directory, I’d ask questions like:
- Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.
- What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn’t speak well to the quality of
the directory.
- If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.
_

 Full post and other questions here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=4391628#post4391628

The one thing that got to me in the above post by matt is the 25% rejection… As a run a few “niche” directories myself and have for many years now, the 25% is so high imho… I’ve just done the maths on one i’m getting 8% inclussion, thats a 82% rejection!…

75% inclussion would imho = 75% of a free for all.. vs my 8%…

Hmm…

But on the positive side I’m glad matt has spoken against FFA …

The fuss keeping going about about the edu and gov links..

So many link sales offering links from such domains due to the fact that “most” .edu or .ac domain come from supper powerful site.. Imho the domain tld has nothing to do with it but if you looking for them why not try the following.. link :

click here

More info http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014048.html

Chrisboggs has write up “buying links” session held @ pubcon..

The info about what has been said has been talk about and agreed for while on many forums..

Some points from the main article are if you are going buy link buy quality one from high traffic and not footer links.. Content link (within the content of the page) and 100% on theme..

Here is a quote I was interested in which might be expaned ?

In QA, Thomas says that he feels that Google has directly penalized some sites including his own that used Text Link Ads. Andy says that typically what they see is that sites that have already gained a fair amount of trust prior to buying links can do very well doing this. However, sites that are newer may run into problems. 

 http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006713.html

Is it the end of TLA ?

 Hmm… The newsletter I just got saying that MediaWhiz has acqired TLA and is going to offer more… ummm…

Publishers: by leveraging MediaWhiz’s agency relationships and sales staff we will be able to sell more ad space on your website. We also will be adding the ability to monetize your website in new ways including: CPA offers and CPM display advertising.

Advertisers: TLA will be working with MediaWhiz to offer new ways to drive traffic and sales to your website including: email marketing, CPA offers, CPM display ads and more!

 

One of the things I liked about TLA was the lack of “other stuff” .. It worked for me..

I like this….

 Its seems to of been about for a while.. But hey I haven’t spent enough time over on digitalpoint of late..

Anyway here is a bit of linkage for you http://www.linkexperiment.com/

 The guy basically wants people to add links to the home and bid for them.. the minium bid is $20.01 right now..

This is how it work

 The link experiment started on May 15th, 2006 with links for sale at a starting bid of $.01 per link. The idea is simple. The homepage will hold 100 links which anybody can buy. Links are ordered by price from highest to lowest. For every new bid, all links below it are moved down one spot and the last link gets pushed off the homepage.

And this is what its for (bit like last time.. )

I created the page with 2 small goals in mind. 1) To support my running career in an attempt to make it to the Olympic Games for long distance running. 2) To make $1 Million Dollars

hmmmm nice idea.. but the olymic games runner who is already 23 ? .. Anyway good luck..!

“linkfromdomain:”

Wit today points out a topic from threadwatch here http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?p=38464#post38464

Tw: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/9360

A New Operator

We have one new, very exciting operator: LinkFromDomain. Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain. This complements LinkDomain (which includes all sites that link to a given domain) that was introduced back in June, 05.

The visual below depicts “YourSite.com” and a set of related sites. The Blue nodes represent sites with reciprocal links, while the yellow nodes are sites you link to, and the green nodes sites that link to you. Here’s how you would capture these domains with advanced syntax:

Full information on live.com blog..

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/10/16/search-macros-linkfromdomain.aspx

Anyway here seo home’s  

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?FORM=QBRE3&q=LinkFromDomain%3Aseohome.co.uk

Off to play with the new comand!!

Great look into a big site selling links..

Now when link hunting you often come accross some massive site flogging links for silly money in my opinion..

Anyway.. Barry / rustybrick blogged up on SEW about one site that i’ve come accross many times before..

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060818-093102

Why have I come accross this site.. Well simple .. Competitors had/have bought links on the blogroll…

A discusion then started with peoples opinion on if this would pass rank to help in serps … http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=13285

Anyway the link have whats called a onlclick event.. Which calls a function that redirects the user to the advertisers site.. However 2 google employees confirm this would not pass any value in ranking..

My thoughts before this article is that it would never pass link pop for the likes of google as it need to be clean imho..