A really interesting post over at Search Engine Roundtable hints that Google knows a lot more about your linking practices than you may think. Read here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002818.html Shudder.
I'd like to see that. Does anyone know of a "link mapping" program or website? Something that gives a visual representation of link networks.
There was a java applet that I saw a demo of once that did something like this. It was really a demo for a layout manager, but someone had adapted it to generate link networks. Clicking on a node would show stats about it, open the url or find other links to it. It was slick but the site quietly disapeared. This was about a year ago. I'm trying to find a reference to it.
Yeah, it is scary but I wonder now how can they do what Matt did in an automated way? And if they can, how would it work? Sure reciprocal links can be sniffed out but one way links are much harder to determine intent.
I can't remember where it is now, but there was a flash thing, where'd you type in a domain name; and it show every site linked to that domain; and who linked to those domains etc etc etc. It was very interesting.
Very interesting. I'd like to know whether or not they use Google Adsense IDs to determine what sites you own, and possibly devalue links between them, and determine what "networks" you're linking with.
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for....I've always found this to be an interesting tool for getting a visual representation of your "neighborhood"
That's exactly what i was referring to- thanks. I had it in my old firefox bookmarks that got deleted!
That is what I was thinking ok. Thanks IIRC the google browser was just a demo of the layout manager. Not a bad demo!