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I view links as entrance paths into your website enabling the robots to enter
Bingo! Every link is a entrance, but SE spiders only opens a finite number of doors daily.
As such, one of the biggest pluses for a link these days is a fresh date in the SERPS. By acquiring links from pages that are spidered daily, you more or less guarantee inclusion for your target page. It's actually better than the old Ink PFI; because, updates are indexed every single day. Of course it doesn't hurt that pages being spidered daily, usually have a high link popularity.
Finding Fresh Links In Google:
1. search Google for your phrase of the day
2. set to 100 results per page
3. search the page for the most common fresh tags of the day "Apr 27, 2004"
I imagine this is hold hat to many, but it takes me a while to catch up sometimes. Of course, freshness is the only factor to take into account when acquiring a link, but it has become a main part of my strategy.
Another consideration is that Google isn't the only search engine in town, so it's good to do a link hunt through other search engines. I like Ask Jeeves' subject specific analysis and am able to find good link candidates because of the way AJ views the web. Despite AJ's freshness issues, mining AJ for links ranks just behind digging through dmoz.
It's an interesting idea. Anybody have some more?
Even today's date... presumably you could restrict a search for your theme keywords to sites modified in the past few days, which would most likely fit into the criteria suggested.
However, the freshy mainly indicates that a page has been modified latelyI don't think this is quite true. I have a number of pages that receive fresh dates daily that haven't been modified in a month. Is there a modified since threshold for receiving a fresh date? I have followed the above strategy on all of these pages though. Maybe backlinks changing could flag the page as modified?
Another consideration is that Google isn't the only search engine in townI couldn't agree more. However, when I'm paying to play, I have to pick my battles wisely. In the past, it's been rare for me to pay for a page to be included at Ask, whereas every new page was listed with Ink. Now, I try to get a fresh link for G & Y for every new category I launch. I guess this would be less of a problem for informational sites than for my online store.
Thank you for the AV tip. It's been a pain finding fresh pages in Yahoo; because, the advanced search can only restrict the search to a max of 3 months.
That may be true, and I'm not disputing that. I'm only pointing up a limitation to your link hunting tip.
For instance, if during the course of keyword research I find that I need to beef up a certain phrase, I will pick an appropriate page, modify it, then within days it's up with a fresh tag. That page, and website as well, would have been overlooked by you had I not updated the page.
Also, there's the If Modified Since [webmasterworld.com] server configuration to be considered.
I'm not discounting your link hunting tip, only pointing up some limitations to it.
