Comments on: How the link economy benefits Reuters http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/ A slice of lime in the soda Wed, 22 May 2013 01:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: SeoKungFu http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/comment-page-1/#comment-25818 SeoKungFu Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:36:43 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/#comment-25818 Links are money ! Period ! Get it or get out of the web biz ! In fact, links are *huge* money. Each link you manage to attract is a potential that pays thousands of times in time for the effort of gaining it. Links are money ! Period ! Get it or get out of the web biz !
In fact, links are *huge* money.

Each link you manage to attract is a potential that pays thousands of times in time for the effort of gaining it.

]]> By: Adam http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/comment-page-1/#comment-5221 Adam Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:19:26 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/#comment-5221 Putting a price on links from Yahoo is hard to do. But no doubt, they're worth a ton. I'd hazard a guess that "clean", search-engine-friendly links from a prominent page on Yahoo would go for $50k/month at least. That's just for SEO purposes, and very rough. It'd depend on how it's structured/linked-to, and lots of other factors. Hard to put a figure on it, but Yahoo.com has ~1.2 billion other pages linking to it. That's... priceless for any website, even Reuters. http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com&bwm=i&bwmf=s&bwmo=&fr=yfp-t-152&fr2=seo-rd-se Putting a price on links from Yahoo is hard to do. But no doubt, they’re worth a ton. I’d hazard a guess that “clean”, search-engine-friendly links from a prominent page on Yahoo would go for $50k/month at least. That’s just for SEO purposes, and very rough. It’d depend on how it’s structured/linked-to, and lots of other factors.

Hard to put a figure on it, but Yahoo.com has ~1.2 billion other pages linking to it. That’s… priceless for any website, even Reuters.

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/sea rch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com&bwm=i&bwmf= s&bwmo=&fr=yfp-t-152&fr2=seo-rd-se

]]> By: Doug http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/comment-page-1/#comment-5203 Doug Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:48 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/#comment-5203 Oscar Wilde understood the link economy: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde understood the link economy: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

]]> By: Leigh Caldwell http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/comment-page-1/#comment-5176 Leigh Caldwell Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:16:06 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/how-the-link-economy-benefits-reuters/#comment-5176 Intriguing post, Felix. It has some resonance, because I was just interviewed by your colleague Christopher Swann who kindly wrote up some of my ideas in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService4/idUSTRE56S4FO20090729" rel="nofollow">a commentary last week</a>. I was pleased to see the article come out but, being more used to blog coverage, it was unusual to notice that it did not include a link to my blog or article. In fact, I think it has since been updated to include a link to one of my papers - I believe the hyperlink wasn't there originally. I was very happy of course to link back to Chris's article anyway...I trust that's OK with Reuters! Intriguing post, Felix. It has some resonance, because I was just interviewed by your colleague Christopher Swann who kindly wrote up some of my ideas in a commentary last week.

I was pleased to see the article come out but, being more used to blog coverage, it was unusual to notice that it did not include a link to my blog or article. In fact, I think it has since been updated to include a link to one of my papers – I believe the hyperlink wasn’t there originally.

I was very happy of course to link back to Chris’s article anyway…I trust that’s OK with Reuters!

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