Comments for SEO Link In | Link Building & SEO http://www.seolinkin.com/blog Tips, Tricks, Tools, and More... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:46:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Is the link Good? Determining the SEO Value of a Link by Robert White http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/2009/10/08/is-the-link-good-determining-the-seo-value-of-a-link/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Robert White Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:46:25 +0000 http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/?p=39#comment-11 Checking the cache date is just a way to <strong>trend</strong> how often Google crawls the site but don't pay too much attention to it. As well, a site that is regularly crawled does not necessarily get cached as frequently as it gets crawled. Knowing how often a website is crawled is more important - but you can't get this information unless you are the webmaster or the webmaster makes it available. It's good to quickly check a cached version to make sure there is nothing strange going on (changes in content, sudden influx of o/b links, malicious scripting, spam, etc.) - but don't fall into the trap of thinking that an old cache date means that the site was not crawled recently. Take a look at this for more details: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/better-details-about-when-googlebot.html What you want to do is examine a sites link portfolio carefully and determine the authority of site through it's own rankings. Checking the cache date is just a way to trend how often Google crawls the site but don’t pay too much attention to it. As well, a site that is regularly crawled does not necessarily get cached as frequently as it gets crawled. Knowing how often a website is crawled is more important – but you can’t get this information unless you are the webmaster or the webmaster makes it available. It’s good to quickly check a cached version to make sure there is nothing strange going on (changes in content, sudden influx of o/b links, malicious scripting, spam, etc.) – but don’t fall into the trap of thinking that an old cache date means that the site was not crawled recently.

Take a look at this for more details: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/better-details-about-when-googlebot.html

What you want to do is examine a sites link portfolio carefully and determine the authority of site through it’s own rankings.

]]> Comment on Is the link Good? Determining the SEO Value of a Link by Lav http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/2009/10/08/is-the-link-good-determining-the-seo-value-of-a-link/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Lav Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:08:12 +0000 http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/?p=39#comment-10 I like the bullet format approach better compared to the original article. You mention that checking the cache date can be misleading. Is there a way around this, to know how often a website is cached? Thanks! I like the bullet format approach better compared to the original article. You mention that checking the cache date can be misleading. Is there a way around this, to know how often a website is cached?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Site Redesign Launched by Mark http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/2009/09/14/site-redesign-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Mark Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:27:59 +0000 http://www.seolinkin.com/blog/?p=30#comment-4 Looks good right? Told you so! Looks good right? Told you so!

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