Link Popularity- An useful SEO tool March 15, 2006
Supatra ChowdhuryWhat is link Popularity? Link popularity is a helpful SEO tool that gives a general representation of the total number of web-pages linked to a website (or individual web-page). Major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN support the “link:” operator. You have to type in “link:” (without the quotation marks) in front of the URL that you want to learn about.
How does this tool function? This tool will make a search in all the major search engines when you type in ‘link:’ infront of your preferred URL. It will give you the result of the total link count for each URL.
Does the result vary? However, the results will vary from one search engine to another. You will notice that the totals vary greatly because the figures shown actually represent the number of inbound-links that are fed to that search engine (which ofcourse varies on the size of their database). Search engines like Google even applies various filters against the inbound-links- as a result representation of inbound-links vary from one search engine to another.
Is link popularity important?. ? Link popularity is a major factor in influencing a site’s ranking in search results. Sites with more inbound-links generally rank higher than a similar site with less inbound links. However, anchor text is also a key factor besides inbound links to determining the positioning of a website.
- Posted in : Real Estate Biz
- Author : Supatra Chowdhury
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I very much enjoyed your post. I can say from experience that link popularity is one of the most important tools for SEO. We’ve been trying out a lot of differnet techinques to get good rankings on Google, MSN, and Yahoo. You can check out some of what we’ve tried with a couple of our websites, such as our Property listing in Edison website.