What are all the things to take into consideration when measuring the value of a link to your site in terms of how much link credit the link gives to your site: Obviously, PageRank, Alexa Rank...what else?
Well Exactly every link have can have four kinds of effect such as : It can help your pr It can help your SERP It can boost your traffic and as a consequent alexa rank. It can Harm your serp (this is the case usually happen when you do some reciprocal link exchanges with irrelevent , bad neighbourhood , and less pr sites) . These are the main four scales with the basis of what you can measure a link's credit. Looking forward to other member's reply. Regards to you all. Ashwini
Those are actually at the very bottom of my list, well, almost bottom. At the bottom would links from worthless sites outside of my niche. I don't really care what the Alexa rank is, as no one that visits my site really has a clue about, and I don't really care if it's from a PR 10 site or a PR 0 site...as long as the site is relevant to my content. However, PR can play an indirect roll in it, as a PR 10 site is more likely to get more traffic (and therefor better CTR, or ROI) but a relevant link from a PR 0 site also has it's worth, as I have clicked through "link pages" to find other sites. Many of these pages had little to no PR. I am also more inclined to click through a links page then I am a footer link, as I generally treat them as "ads" *shrug* A PR8 site that has little to do with your site will likely do little for you in anything but PR where as a PR2 site that's a perfect match will likely generate exactly what the link is placed there for...traffic. So relevance should be placed at the very tip top of the list, and should also play a roll in all other criteria.
Well in that case these article may help you find your answer There are mainly 7 types of links: High Ranking, Relevant, Authority Links - Expensive, but very powerful for ranking, need relatively few Content Embedded Links - Expensive, but very powerful for relevance, need relatively few Viral Marketing Links - Expensive, but very powerful for continuously building links without any extra effort (viral) Medium Ranking, Relevant Links - Median cost, mostly relevant, median number of links needed Low Ranking One Way Links - cheap, but not always relevant or high quality, need many Low Ranking Three Way Links - cheap or free, but not always relevant or high quality and usually involves lots of work, would need many if recomended at all Low Ranking Reciprocal Links - cheap or free, but not always relevant or high quality and usually involves lots of work, would need many if recomended at all
i think the criterias for the value of a link * ip * relation to your site * outgoing link number * page rank