how to review inbound link partners

How can I check out the quality of a link partner

[fourchette]

Hey there,

I'm looking to get new inbound links for my site. I already bought a couple of good directory links, but I'm looking at some other sites to add my listing to.

My question is, how can I check out the quality of the site I want to submit too.

I figure that I have to check out the number of backlinks the site has, but how can I verify the quality of those backlinks? Should I check out all the sites that are linking to that site, check their pr and their backlinks too? Especially if the site I want to add my listing to is charging money for inclusion, I guess this is important.

But is there other things I should check on the sites? How can you be sure that the site is good and you're not wasting money on it.

[Event_King]

Every site will have a mixture of bad and good to very good links to it.

If you get say 5'000 links (early on) reviewing 5k worth is a monster task, and I wouldn't fancy monitoring/reviewing that lot every month or whatever. You can spend all day monitoring this stuff when you should be concentrating on running your site. I mean some of these sites have upwards of 20'000 links, will you actually check all these one by one?

But you can always try Alexa, as it has a lot of site info on it. The only true way is to use your own judgement and visit sites. Most just compile a list of good sites and go from there - checking each one for usefulness or other criteria. It's probably the best way to do it.

I reviewed 60ish sites last month, but as I understand it gaining links is about popularity and little to do with targeting. Targeting seems to be replaced by 'amount' of links.

I give up lol.

[neuron]

fourchette, you have the right idea and a good grasp of the concept already. However, the most important thing when checking a site's quality in considering whether to link to it or not (aside from it's usefulness to your site visitors) is checking not what other sites link to that site, but what sites that site links to.

A site really cannot control who links to it, so if a lot of spammy sites link to the site you are looking at, that doesn't mean the site is a spammy site itself. However, a site does control who it links to, and what sites it links to says a lot about the integrity of that site because that is the one aspect of linking that is within it's control.

[fourchette]

hey there,

Thanks for the answers,

Are they any tools that can automate part of this process? I mean is there a tool that could fetch for all outbound links from a site, and also verify that any of those links are banned from google or something like that?

Is there any tool that permits to verify if a site has been banned from google?

Thanks

[sugarrae]

I'd scan the sites inbound backlinks for quality - no need to visit each and every site. Use a backlink checker and then check out the urls structures and title tags of the inbound links...

Check how well the site is indexed in the three mega engines - do the engines cache the page your link will be on? Are the links direct?

Check who they are linking out to as mentioned above... you can run a check on the sites links and scan to make sure they aren't linking to anything you wouldn't want to be associated with.

Is the site quality? Would you be happy to find it if you were someone searching on the topic it targets?

How many outbound links will be on the page that your link will be on?

etc etc ...

As far as programs, you can sticky me for some suggestions if you'd like.