Comments on: What’s That Link Really Worth?

By: Is Your Link Building Strategy a Time Waster?

Is Your Link Building Strategy a Time Waster? — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:10:57 +0000

[...] isn’t nearly worth it. Most of the time these “top secret” high PR pages aren’t nearly as valuable as you think and how long did it take you to find it? It’s just not worth it. The time you spend searching [...]

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:20:51 +0000

P.S. There is also talk that Google may be partially reading some java as well.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:38:27 +0000

Hi Stephen,

I wasn’t sure what you meant at first, but after reading that thread I remember reading something about it a while back. The “onclick” within the links on this blog are generated from Rich Boakes Analytics plugin and everything has been followed and indexed pretty nicely actually. For the past month or two every new post is indexed with Google within 24 hours.

Thanks for the compliment on the article directory, although I’m not too happy with it. It’s run off horrible software (StarArticles) but it’s somewhat established so I keep it up. I have a few others up now that I’m working on, which run on better software.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:50:33 +0000

Hi Josh,

I just wanted to clarify what I was saying about the onclick stuff. I read somewhere that the search engines may not follow links which have onclick in them. There’s quite a bit of confusion about this. Here is just one discussion I found about it: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=14132.

However it’s not confirmed that its a problem and when I had a closer look at the links in your comments, I noticed that what you’ve got is : onclick=”javascript:urchinTracker…

That looks like it’s from Google Analytics. I’d be extremely surprised if the Google bots don’t follow links with Google Analytics onclicks in the link. So there is almost certainly no problem here.

Sorry for getting away from the point of your post, which I completely agree with.
By the way, I just had a quick look at your article directory and it looks pretty good.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:29:42 +0000

I think some links are worth paying for, but I like those that are contextual.

The comment links on this blog are followed after the commentor contributes more than 3 posts. There is nothing restricting the SE’s after that.

I’ve always liked sitewide links as well, but I’ve been hearing that Google may be discounting them anymore. I do know Yahoo loves them. I have an article directory with just a couple sitewide links on a couple other article directories and it’s ranking ranking 3 on Yahoo for “article directory”

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:08:42 +0000

All very good points! To be honest, I don’t think I would ever pay for one link on one page. Why would I pay, when I can come to a site such as this (with nofollow disabled) and leave a comment that gives me a link.

I know exactly what I’m getting when I make a comment on a dofollow site (although the onclick part of the links on your site may actually stop Google from following – I’m not sure).

Now if we are talking about buying a link in the sidebar, which will show up on every post for a particular site, then THAT may be worth some money.