Comments on: What Is A Link Worth? Part 1: Valuing PageRank http://searchengineland.com/what-is-a-link-worth-part-1-valuing-pagerank-34526 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:39:57 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Martinez http://searchengineland.com/what-is-a-link-worth-part-1-valuing-pagerank-34526/comment-page-1#comment-8696 Michael Martinez Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:25:33 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=34526#comment-8696 I tried your formula and found it was way off for three link-popular/reference-popular sites. I suspect it's not of much value to the broader audience. I tried your formula and found it was way off for three link-popular/reference-popular sites. I suspect it’s not of much value to the broader audience.

]]> By: IanLockwood http://searchengineland.com/what-is-a-link-worth-part-1-valuing-pagerank-34526/comment-page-1#comment-8670 IanLockwood Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:53:51 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=34526#comment-8670 Thanks Ted, that is very interesting indeed. One thing I would like to query is this: "It also includes references to the website that are not a link... but many in the SEO industry speculate that the search engines then convert that into a link and count it." I honestly haven't heard this elsewhere. If it is correct, doesn't that have massive implications for linkspam? You can't apply nofollow to something that isn't an anchor, so surely there would be huge benefit to a spammer to simply write their URL into blog comments rather than making them links, thereby getting it converted into a link without a nofollow? I can't believe that this is the case, otherwise we would see a deluge of such "links"! Thanks Ted, that is very interesting indeed. One thing I would like to query is this:

“It also includes references to the website that are not a link… but many in the SEO industry speculate that the search engines then convert that into a link and count it.”

I honestly haven’t heard this elsewhere. If it is correct, doesn’t that have massive implications for linkspam? You can’t apply nofollow to something that isn’t an anchor, so surely there would be huge benefit to a spammer to simply write their URL into blog comments rather than making them links, thereby getting it converted into a link without a nofollow?

I can’t believe that this is the case, otherwise we would see a deluge of such “links”!

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