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"Measuring the value of links"
 
   Is there any practical way of telling which links are helping you, and by how much? I know there are ways of measuring the value of a link (most notably PR), but at the end of the day, it seems like it's nearly impossible to get tell what's actually working for you and what's not if you're building links from many different sources like you should.

Maybe I'm just thinking about this the wrong way?


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1. "RE: Measuring the value of links"
 
>Is there any practical way of telling which links are
>helping you, and by how much? I know there are ways of
>measuring the value of a link (most notably PR), but at the
>end of the day, it seems like it's nearly impossible to get
>tell what's actually working for you and what's not if
>you're building links from many different sources like you
>should.
>
>Maybe I'm just thinking about this the wrong way?

There's a number of ways to guess, such as high "authority", low number of links on page/site, PR, relevance, etc.

You can also test to some degree. Set up a few sites and use 1/2 the bookmarking sites for these, set up other sites and use the other 1/2 of bookmarking sites.

Compare these to other sites that used, RSS, etc.

However, even this leaves many holes in conclusions. It may be best to use a few bookmarking sites and RSS, for example.

However, our goal here is to build a number of sites and "gently" cross-link them, bringinh in more links to the network from resources offered in Think Links, etc.

The goal is to raise the "value" of all of our resouces just a bit, making our resources "high quality" link sources.

I believe this is best done by having many resourcs, many links of different types, and linking to pages that link to us, as much as possible.


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