Bad Link Data

To block or not to block?

[Kahless]

I put up several domains for resale at one of the top resellers. This reseller places a link for each for sale domain to URL Link analysis statistics that, <according to my personal data> are inaccurate.

Some of the domain data is completely invalid since the sites were never live until I parked them, which may lead buyers to believe that the sites poorly performed for years when actually they have never been live.

Therefore would it be bad form to block this data and stop these stats from being tracked?

[edited by: Webwork at 4:07 pm (utc) on Feb. 13, 2006]
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[Webwork]

Most domain buyers of any sophistication will do their own analysis of domain related data, so I wouldn't be overly concerned about the robustness of the data. I'd be inclined to toss it, especially if my own, more robust testing, showed it to be in doubt. IF the tool is known to be "weak" then it will have that reputation in the domain buying community at large, and therefore the value of the data will be diminished.

Most buyers, when it comes to metrics these days, look at direct (type-in) navigation data only and, the higher the price, the closer the scrutiny - including demands for referer strings and demands for testing of traffic.

Links can be a bad thing for a variety of reasons, including "bad neighborhood" issues, so providing link data - especially for parked domains - can actually be detrimental.