ILQ (Inbound Link Quality) Tools Well its been a lot of hard work but I have my v1.0 of my web based ILQ Rating and ILQ Directory finished and my Firefox Extension ILQ Rating tools are finished. You can find these tools at www.seocompay.ca in the first starter block. Web Based Tools ILQ Rating Tool: This is a JavaScript tool that shows the number of dir.yahoo, dmoz.org, .edu and .gov inbound links a web site has and the ILQ value. The information that this tool provides is acquired from Yahoo via their API. www.seocompany.ca/directory/ilqtool.html ILQ Directory Search Tool: This tool is a form tool that shows which directories the entered site are in. This tools is in Beta but I have released it any way. This tools is being converted to JavaScript and will have a better look when finished. It also accesses link information from Yahoo via their API. www.seocompany.ca/dirtool/ ILQ Directory Search & Buy Tool This tool is a JavaScript tool that shows which directories the entered site are in. What is different with this tool is that it is integrated into my Top 40 ILQ Directories purchase form. That means you can go to the purchase page and enter in a domain and it will check the purchase check boxes of the directories the domain is not in and give you a price of what it would cost. www.seocompany.ca/directory/top-web-directories.html#ilqdir FireFox Extension FireFox ILQ Rating Extension This extension shows the number of dir.yahoo, dmoz.org, .edu, and .gov inbound links a web site has. It also shows the sites age, the daily Alexa (this will be changed to 3 month average), and will show the PR in the next version. You can turn any or all of the values off. www.seocompany.ca/downloads/statusextensionilq.xpi [size=2][b]Short primer on IL...e for the value of having a link from a site.
In this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1756437348670651505 Matt Cutts says that no special weight is given to .edu and .gov links. So, basing an entire linking or directory submission strategy around this is somewhat bunk, IMHO. ILQ is meaningless as it rates directories on a factor that Matt Cutts specifically says Google doesn't use. While I agree that a better tool than PR needs to be devised, the best I've seen so far is the SEOMoz strength tool. Ignore ILQ.
Next week we will be launching our buy and sell link service. All trades in the BETA phase will be free.
Christine8: Ya www.bluehost.com is going though major problems, especially with there PHP5.x.x servers. It's up now : )