RustyBrick - a frequent poster on SEOChat and many of the other major search engine forums released a tool over the summer that conducts an advanced analysis of the links listed in Google's link command. The link popularity analysis revealed some fairly interesting things. In addition to showing how PageRank is being passed, I discovered that several links which I presumed were not counted because of re-direct scripts actually have been counted by Google. If only Rusty could provide the same analysis for the Yahoo! linkdomain command...
p.s. Check out this new post for a more up to date view on Google's link command.
Does this count as the first ever comment? ;)
And does this count as the first reply to the reply to the first comment reply since SEOmoz has been rebranded as Moz?
If so, I'll take it.
Word count wasn't important back then, 500 words or more Rand!
At the end of the post you have linked to a post from 2009, did you forsee that post 5 years in the future and linked to it? Rand, Do you know some magic or what? :P
Haha, old trick of providing UX enhancements and building page authority forwards :)
I reread the post in 2009. The predictions and statements myths are still valid :) Some tricks still work today. Rand, you're a genius!
Classic first post! Which redirect scripts were you surprised about?
The post is a little short, a little outdated. But very well written. Thumbs up :-D
Inbound.org rocks
Get the point, re-direct scripts and similar things matter.
I just I wondered what it was the first post to be published in Moz blog. Almost 11 years later and still useful, this is true evergreen content.
Just Wondering, how you started from a small post, and now the world is looking for more text and information. Thats why now an average post contains thousands of words.
Shall give a try
important information thanks.
The link is still up and works great actually. Pretty cool stuff for seeing how long SEOmoz has been a major authority.
I see that the post is old and was on the website but the tool is probably not working anymore.
Thanks for this - much appreciated.
nice article, it will help !
thanks - Sebastien
Thelink command is cretainly useful to track and measure a search engine optimisation campaign. For some reason though I find a lot of discrepencies. The number of links I see to my website using the link command in Google are far less that the number of links I see in webmasetr control panel of Google. I have never understood the reasons for such differences.
It's very good! Support it!
Hi Rand,
It this your first post?
As an SEO consultant working with many ecommerce websites, I found this article very interesting :)