Not what I'm saying at all!
But Luke wants to use it to detect ownership of the backlinks rather than whether the links are meaningful.
Not what I'm saying at all!
But Luke wants to use it to detect ownership of the backlinks rather than whether the links are meaningful.
Ok, thought this was an SEO issue, my bad.Originally Posted by Clinton
Not what I'm saying at all!
But Luke wants to use it to detect ownership of the backlinks rather than whether the links are meaningful.
It could also be an SEO issues. There has been suggestion that Google sniffs out links form the same c-class. It would be pretty easy for them to smell a rat if all a site backlinks came from the same c-class.
Well now I'm curious what other reasons you'd have for wanting to know "indication of a website owner's controls over the backlinks to a site." I don't buy and sell domains names and frankly hadn't realised that there were reasons other than SEO for wanting to know something like that?
JJMcClure, when buying a website it would be good to know how much control the owner has over the backlinks. Sellers with networks have the ability to pump up their PageRank and build backlinks before a site is sold, then remove the backlink post-sale.
Why does that matter, is this about human traffic coming from those links? Pagerank is an SEO issue for sure.
As has been said before, Luke wants to be able to detect whether inbound links are in the control of the seller. If the seller can give those links pre-sale to boost the value of the site, they can remove those same links post sale too. Then traffic/rankings/PR/whatever - and value - is reduced. Luke needs to know whether that risk is there.
This discussion isn't about what value inbound links give, it's about identifying the risk of those inbound links being removed by website sellers.
Wires getting seriously crossed here.
If the links are all in the control of the seller then there's a good chance they're not worth anything anyway from an SEO point of view because it would clearly be a contrived link structure and Google is very good at sniffing those out. So in post No8 on this thread I suggest that the best way to know if those links are meaningful and worth worrying about is to check how they affect rankings, if there are some good rankings then it matters whose control those links are under but also makes it less likely that it's the seller who controls them all. On top of all this is the fact that SEO benefits from links being passed to a new domain owner can't be assumed anyway, because of the fact that Google is a domain registrar.
So from an SEO point of view (PR and rankings which is two out the three issues) I don't think it matters whose control the links are under. If this is purely about direct human traffic from the sites where the links are then they could all be under the control of the seller and get yanked after the sale, which is why I was asking Luke that question.
That's a whole different discussion that I'm sure we're going to have one dayPagerank is an SEO issue for sure.
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