Gotten any awesome natural links lately?

Hey Everybody, thought I'd start an inspirational thread to see if anyone has picked up any awesome "natural" links to their site lately. By "Natural" I mean not a link exchange, not a purchased link but a place that linked to you because they liked your content.

Here are the two I've discovered that put me in a really good mood:

http://www.isme.org- PR7 site for the International Society for Music Education, very important it will lead to other links from local music education societies i'm sure, hurray for a .org too! It's a redirect, they're using a directory script (?url=www.tubanews.com) BUT I've gotten over 80 visitors in a week, I must be on some kind of "new links" list and who knows...that syntax might be picked up by some SE's.

http://www.oberlin.edu - link to my site posted in a news release on a PR6 page . They're using direct links and the anchor text is perfect! Their news release system has archives and it looks like it will go there starting in the spring semester - this is a good thing, it's permanent!

So what surprises links have you come across lately?

 

The best I've had recently was a natural link on a PR7 page to a review I did on www.coolest-gadgets.com more importantly it's sending me 100 visitors a day at the moment As the link is to one of my internal pages it will be interesting to see what PR it gets on the next update.

 

ifkgoteborg. blogspot. com linked to my site yesterday and in the 36 or so hours that it's been up I have gotten over 600 visitors.

 

Congrats for both of those - I just found another one in my logs: http://library.sbts.edu - a college library linking to me as one of only two important resources for my instrument. PR4 page, has a million links on it and only 1 visitor to me but it's still signifigant.

 

nope none at all

 

I don't think I was that lucky

How do you discover them anyway? Especially when they don't bring much traffic... do you just check your whole referer log?

 

I've got two natural links from Slashdot articles, and a bunch each from LifeHacker.com (weblogs, inc.) and Lifehack.org.

Sadly, I think Slashdot uses Nofollow on links in their articles.

 

In Awstats, if they show up in my top 20 site referrers, I consider that a good natural link.

I have had a few good ones from forums and such, and even one dude who linked right to a download of one of my games but I don't care because he barely gets any traffic so he doesn't kill my bandwidth.

 

how u see ur site been linked???

 

I check referral logs, and technorati

 

I use AWStats, and I just notice them from time to time, today I noticed three!

 

Two ways I know of...
1) check your referrer logs
2) Go to Google and type:
link:www.yourdomain.com