All Links are Not Created Equal: 10 Illustrations on SEs' Valuation of Links

An outstanding piece from Rand Fishkin detailing research into different types/aspects of links and which affect SEO more. The list in brief:

#1 - Links Higher Up in HTML Code Cast More Powerful Votes
#2 - External Links are More Influential than Internal Links
#3 - Links from Unique Domains Matters More than Links from Previously Linking Sites
#4 - Links from Sites Closer to a Trusted Seed Set Pass More Value
#5 - Links from "Inside" Unique Content Pass More Value than Those from Footers/Sidebar/Navigation
#6 - Keywords in HTML Text Pass More Value than those in Alt Attributes of Linked Images
#7 - Links from More Important, Popular, Trusted Sites Pass More Value (even from less important pages)
#8 - Links Contained Within NoScript Tags Pass Lower (and Possibly No) Value
#9 - A Burst of New Links May Enable a Document to Overcome "Stronger" Competition Temporarily (or in Perpetuity)
#10 - Pages that Link to WebSpam May Devalue the Other Links they Host

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Frank

 

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