One MONSTER back link....

Gets you a lot of cred with Google.

I got a major "follow" link on a site with around a 2500 Alexa (just for an idea) on April 7th, and yesterday my Google traffic went up 600%

Wish I could duplicate that, but the way I got the link was the site owner/s picked up the link on their own (probably from my paid SE listings).

Anyone else have this happen from one single link?

 

Errrr... you won't mind sharing what site that was?

 

Edit: This is the backlink site's info:
SeoQuake: PR: 6 I: 96,400 L: 3,677,725 LD: 3,815,186 I: 99500 Rank: 2539 Age: Jan 20, 2002 I: 497

 

Congratulations,it seems that your site has lot of information to give.

Please share the url with us.

 

I just noticed that Google crawled the sitemap yesterday, hope that doesn't mess anything up!

 

Why would crawling a sitemap mess it up? a backlink is a banklink! am i correct?

 

Why? Because Google doesn't like me, and will screw me any chance it gets!

 

lol. explain?

 

Yeah, I'd like to hear that myself

 

Well I'm pretty sure there's no duplicate titles or descriptions, but I'm hoping there's no dup content issues because within the sitemap there's a ton of variations of a single page because the content is sortable (I think this is blocked in the robots.txt, but once again, this is the first time the sitemap has been crawled).

I'm always afraid of new factors that Google will see once they crawl a sitemap for the first time in a long time. I'm afraid of anything Google does when my listings are good, really, whether it be backlink update, PR update etc.

 

I have a experience that w3c featured my website with a "follow" link. The result is the rapid boost of traffic from google organic search.
Not only the SERP ranks of a lot of big/small keywords became much higher but also the number of indexed pages increased quickly.

Recently a lot of people say that PR has no value at all any more, but I confirm from that experience that they have no experience to possess such high PR sites. A link from high PR page, or a authority site, still have a big impact on the search rank as long as it is acquired by natural activity (not a paid link or something similar).

 

What's your idea of a lot of traffic?

 

"paid SE listings"? which ones? it looks like you made out like a bandit.

 

i've good a back-links from Alexa Under 75 Rankn Site. Is that good?

 

I got a link on wiki ("nofollow") for the exact kw as my domain (keyword.com) and got a ton more Google natural listings almost instantly... then when wiki kicked my link off, my organics were gone as well.

So PR seems to make a difference, but it also seems like a backlink is a backlink in some ways.

 

That depends, blogger.com has an alexa of 9, google groups, yahoo groups, other blog services etc all have high alexa, but it means absolutely nothing.

 

I am saying about Adobe.

I've got Back-links from Adobe, (as an author) will that do so?

 

http://blogs.adobe.com/

Nope, the Alexa, PR etc by themselves mean nothing, if the site has valuable content, good search listings, traffic etc, then it'll be more valuable as a backlink.

I know people that do thousands of blogger blogs with unique content all linking back to the e-commerce site and it actually does really well. I hate that, but it works. Whereas if you have one link to one of those it won't do much...

 

no,,,, not that... not Blogs...

http://tinyurl.com/3zj46u

check this link

 

Ahh rounded corners

Sure, that's not a bad place to have a link, there's valuable content, it's on a reputable site yadda yadda yadda, but I'm not sure if it's a monster.

You'd know if it was tho.