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You have guessed by the name of the thread, that I seek some help in the taks of finding:
1) the theory about authority sites ( How to determine the quality of a site that most hubs link to? )
I guess you'll have to look at pr, amount and quality of backlinks. The authority site seems to be a site that is linked to by most of respected and quality hubs in the industry. I started looking out and playing with this hubs concept and found more than a 100 sites I could ask a link from.
If I understand this correctly, one as to analyse all those so called hubs, to find only the top quality ones.
Would those be the ones with higher pr? Best overall look, number of inbounds? Quality of those inbounds?
Seems like a lot of things to check out, but ok.
One you have selected the real quality hubs.
How do you analyse the outbound links of those hubs and compare them to have the authority sites? Is there program, technique?
Then, once you have identified all those links (good hubs and authority sites, you have to submit your link to all of them?
Is there anything I'm missing here, and could you guys try to give me a more detailed explanation about the whole process and the tools needed? Or point me to the right place?
Thanks, a lot
Alex
Sorry if that doesn't help.
Links
You mention "PR, amount and quality of backlinks". I would agree that analysing any outbound and inbound links that the sites have is important.
PR: I'm not sure that PR in itself is vital, it is more a by-product of what makes an important site in the area. There are sites which have high PR but whose links have been discounted by the search engines. Conversely, there are sites with little or no PR which may end up being an important source of search engine value and traffic. And don't forget that PR is not PR but toolbar PR...
Amount: Again, amount of incoming or outgoing links is not a guarantee of authority. Sites in the ODP or who have been scraped can have uncommonly large amounts of inbound links. Sites with large numbers of outbound links may well be promiscuous with their linking policies
Quality: Yes, here is where I would look at links as a factor. Does a site link to the most important sites in the industry or the region? Does it receive links from sites of equal or more value (see next section)?
Topic and Scope
This is where I put in quite a bit of research. What is my site about? What would a site about these topics be expected to include? What are subsidiary topics? What are parent topics?
Let us say that you run a site about widgets in Dustbowl, Elbonia. What would be important links for you to have? What would you choose between the following:
i) a reciprocal link from a Dustbowl widget supplier for listing them in your resources section
ii) a link from another widget site in Verdant, Elbonia
iii) a link from the Elbonian widget manufacturers' association
It used to be the case that if you ran an apple site, you could target fruit as well. Nowadays it's just as easy to hit terms like core, skin and pips, but it takes far more effort to have success with oranges and even more for fruit.
Tools
Yes, there are tools which do a lot of link analysis. Mainly they automate stuff that you could do yourself with advanced search in the different engines. Some are parts of commercial suites, some are free stand-alone tools. It's not a good idea to link-drop any of them here since they are either made for money or reputation but a search in your favourite engine will find them easily enough.
Useful free tools which are easily available are provided by your friendly local engine as well: particularly the tilde search (~ followed by your phrase); related sites; Google Sets; Google Suggest; local search on all engines.
I've got 2 of these little web guides and they are so helpful sometimes.
