Well, remember Google only publishes some (seemingly) random sampling of backlinks. I forgot to mention that would be a major flaw in any algorithm you are writing if you put any emphasis on backlinks reported by Google. Only use the backlink counts from Yahoo or MSN. The counts from Google are meant to confuse, not inform webmasters.
Yup I know that, but for the most part Google is normally right on. And I came up with a way to speed up the site. I am thinking about doing sponsorship links or something that I could sell for a higher price that will be permanent. Would anyone go for such a link to help buy a server?
NO! Google is never correct - never. Show me a site that where Google represents backlinks correctly.
pbkill.com - my old photoshop site that i sold a year ago but i do understand what your saying. While the baclinks do play a value in the algo, there are some if statements involved if there are no backlinks to do some further checks.
Well, I would not use Google at all, but it is your algorithm. Google shows 683 backlinks for my site - www.deepmarket.com - yahoo shows 41,861. How is that even close? For pbkill.com Google shows 25 backlinks - yahoo shows 993.
I am going to sell a site for cheap to make room on my other host so I can transfer siteamount over and hopefully speed it up. Check the sales thread here Thanks for the support.
A big update today. I just put v2.0 out on the server. There has been a lot of changes made this time around including the addition of Digg links You can see the full list of changes here I need some more input from you guys... Thanks. http://www.siteamount.com
I like the concept... however there are way to many factors in the worth of a site to actually calculate with a computorized formula. Revenue is the most important and I got a sell value of 1/6th of my monthly revenue.
Then you must have done something wrong because it can not be 1/6 your monthly revenue if the revenue is directly applied to the selling estimate?
I really like the changes...I checked two sites that I have sold, and it was pretty close...with all that room on the bottom, you could easily open up to some advertisers...let me know if you do, I am interested.