For value fo rMoney its hard to Beat a Permanent Regular Listing on www.Map100.com at just $10.95 Its listed in the top 30 Strongest directorys by Aviva and now also is listed on the Aviva list of directorys with the most back links.
I'm sure you'll get there fast! Thanks so much! I've looked at this and I can't figure out what the difference is or even any evidence that this is the "real" number of backlinks. Can you let us know more?
Ask Directory Total Backlinks – 104,356 Homepage backlinks – 64,599 Deep Backlinks – 39,757 (total links - home page links) Deep link Ratio – 38%
I remember hearing a while ago that the api's supplied by both Yahoo & Google pulled their data from servers that had been somewhat sequestered, I.e. not entirely live load bearing data, Technically it makes sense, live load bearing servers are customer facing devices whose performance must not be degraded by webmasters anxious to check their serps So provide webmasters with a separate, but regularly updated server bank whose performance is not critical, afterall its providing freebies crucially, this data always lags behind the live data Where does site exploreer get its data, probably live cos its accessed from the main Yahoo search screen
That's a great idea! I've added this in as well. Given that the Yahoo! backlink results seem to fluctuate I'd say that the accuracy is + or - 5%. For instance, when I checked Ask-Dir, I got a deep link ratio of 35%, whereas you got 38%. Not sure I see any patterns in the results - they're really all over the board.
Wouldn't it be a more accurate depiction if you used the external links only option? Counting hundreds of thousands of internal links skews the numbers a bit...
One difference is use of link: command. And from my experience with Google/Yahoo API i have noticed that API gets up to date results which are some time not reflected in search queries. But after few hours or couple of days API results start to show in normal queries.
Hi Greg, Thanks for your valuable input. Heh, I assume the question is rhetorical, and the answer is obviously yes. I hadn't actually realized that option existed. Also, I'm quite surprised at the difference it did make. The list has been revised along these lines. There have been some pretty dramatic changes - it is worth checking it out.
Well Ask is out of the list now! I think you should also try to get the domain popularity numbers, I think is more relevant than link popularity. Great work thanks
I have a question....if somebody has a sitewide link on a site with 50000 pages....yahoo will count 50000 links, right?
Another great resource, Jeff. Thanks for taking the time to do it. I find the deep link ratio surprising, actually. I knew it would not be high, but I thought it would be a little higher than that. Anyway...again...awesome resource.