Wiep has done some great SEOmoz style link value survey: Link Value Factors. Among those surveyed: Aaron Wall, Eric Ward, Debra Mastaler, Jim Boykin and my Dutch friends Peter van der Graaf, Martijn Anschutz, Andre Scholten, and ow yeah, me, of course ;)
Link Value Factors
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Joost, to what extent do you imagine the chosen figures are based on testing vs. intuition from experience over time?
Which is not to suggest that the average of a group’s experience is not valuable – but I’m curious as to the extent to which you and others formally test such hypotheses (given that any results are potentially immediately out of date), and the extent to which you value such reports.
That’s enough ‘extents’ for one comment! Cheers.
Hey Joost,
What’s your opinion on Image versus text links ? I just can’t agree with comments like this :
Hamlet Batista: “The alt text of an image when placed inside a link carries the same or similar weight to the link text alone�
Maurizio Petrone: “If the link is an image, the value of ALT attribute counts as an anchor text.
Thxs,
dave
@Web design Glasgow: a little bit of both, I assume
@dave: neither can I :) It’s obviously less…
Ok good I’m not the only one thinking this :) Aren’t these tags just important for onpage factors and less or none for external stuff..
Nice to see so many ducth people on places like that ..were the hell is Belgium :D
dave
@dave: I’m with Joost, I’ve seen clear evidence an image link is worth less.
Joost,
Many thanks, very interesting
Thanks Joost!
It’s very interesting to read.