[LINK] RFI: Backtracking Links

[Roger Clarke]

At 19:05 +1000 28/1/11, rene wrote:
>Suggest (if you haven't already done so) that you try playing around with
>the range of "SEO tools" provided by the new search engine:
>http://blekko.com

This gets really interesting.

The expectations would be that:
(a)  Google would have the bigger catchment;  and hence
(b)  Google would generate the larger link-count

For the APF home-page - sorry about the advert, but would you 
*really* prefer I use one of my own domains  (:-)}

Google gives 118, which reduces to 53:
http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=link:privacy.org.au&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=yI9CTcyWAoqwuAOqoZT-AQ

Blekko gives 820, which reduces to 642:
http://blekko.com/ws/http:%2F%2Fwww.privacy.org.au%2F+/links?ft=&p=14

Spasmodic sampling, biassed to the later entries on the list found no 
spurious entries in either case (although I had to search the source 
of the Google-discovered page that's entirely in Cyrillic).

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>For example, Q2 above *appears* to be answered by entering this in a
>browser address bar (without the quotes):
>
>"http://blekko.com/ws/http://www.privacy.org.au/bba/ /links"
>
>Alternatively, entering this (without quotes):
>"http://blekko.com/ws/http://www.privacy.org.au/bba/ /urlseo?strict=1"
>
>appears to provide more info/different display concerning inbound links,
>together with a range of clickable things.
>
>NB: I've no idea how accurate the data is (which would depend in part on
>how much of the Web Blekko has or hasn't crawled yet, and/or where from/how
>else it it gets its data e.g. I think also Bing), nor much about what else
>might be apparently finadable/achievable using Blekko's SEO tools. Blekko's
>site provides next to no help/info about using same, and I only became
>aware of this site and its SEO tools about a week ago. If you do a search
>for e.g. "Blekko SEO tools", you'll find various reviews/people talking
>about what they've discovered can or can't be found/done. My fairly brief
>playing around with it a few days ago tends to suggest its SEO tools
>*could* be quite helpful/useful/interesting to some webmasters.
>
>Irene
>
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