internetheaven - 3:31 pm on Feb 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have found that 4-5 links from an authority/trusted site can have more effect than 100-200 links from "other" websites whether link pages or not.

I would imagine that your data is tainted because those offering links from links pages will be low quality sites and those offering links from their content pages will be quality sites.

You may be right that links pages vs. content pages is better for linking (I believe so myself as do most webmasters) but your test does not conclude that.

A test to conclude such would be 4000 sites linking to one site from their content pages and the exact same 4000 sites linking to a different site from their links pages. Different sites/industries/pagerank/trustrank etc. etc. etc. can open a whole host of possible corruptions in your test.