Link Value Factors

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 ;)

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7 Comments to “Link Value Factors”

  1. Web Design Glasgow

    Web Design Glasgow Dec 10th, 2007 at 13:55

    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to the extent to which you and others formally test such hypotheses (given that any results are potentially immediately out of date), and the extent to which you value such reports.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.

  2. dave

    dave Dec 10th, 2007 at 14:16

    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

  3. Joost de Valk

    Joost de Valk Dec 10th, 2007 at 14:30 Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Twitter

    @Web design Glasgow: a little bit of both, I assume

    @dave: neither can I :) It's obviously less...

  4. André Scholten

    André Scholten Dec 10th, 2007 at 14:36

    @dave: I'm with Joost, I've seen clear evidence an image link is worth less.

  5. dave

    dave Dec 10th, 2007 at 14:45

    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

  6. Ash`

    Ash` Dec 14th, 2007 at 12:05

    Joost,
    Many thanks, very interesting

  7. Chris

    Chris Dec 17th, 2007 at 19:16

    Thanks Joost!
    It's very interesting to read.

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