Strange link backs
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Hi all
been looking at the keyword research tool , phrase is dog beds site at number 10 is
**www.ideas-4-pets.com **
opened site explorer
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains?site=www.ideas-4-pets.com%2F
Took at a look at linking root domains
ths guy has some huge linking domains , so thought I would take a look at how they managed to get links from sites like Samsung , the UN , Php.net,
Linking Root Domain Domain Authority Linking Root Domains *.parallels.com/ 97 129,927 *.php.net/ 97 201,007 *.dmoz.org/ 94 80,621 *.swsoft.com/ 92 24,586 *.samsung.com/ 89 54,125 *.oreilly.com/ 88 48,350 *.undp.org/ 88 21,578 I cant understand how he has got links off psd files or on page assets like embedded swf files. Anyone know how they are dong this , is this pure Darth Vader black hat >>???
Thanks in advance
May the Google be with You
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Please see Carin's response to this issue in another Q&A: http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer
In short, it's a bug with the last Linkscape index. OSE is scheduled to be updated on Tuesday and that will (hopefully) resolve this issue.
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I've seen that too.
one of my competitors has a link from data.london.gov.uk
which looks like a strange file download
First I thought it was some sort of a bug,
but he has a couple of those.
Asaf
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