{"id":3119,"date":"2008-05-14T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2008-05-14T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:49:11","slug":"number1experttrulia-widget-link-count-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3119\/number1experttrulia-widget-link-count-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Number1Expert\/Trulia Widget Link Count Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, I posted a mock story about Number1Expert rebranding as Number2Expert<\/a> due to their decision to automatically include Trulia widgets on their template sites, and thus give Trulia over 11k links<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Well, I never claimed to be perfect (only close,) and ummmmm, I screwed up. Number2Expert is actually providing Trulia with 36,400 links.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me explain…<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first checked the total # of links to Trulia from N2E sites. Because N2E currently tags every site w\/ the text “Number1Expert” at the top of each page, it was pretty easy to find. I ran this link analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But jogging through some of the link pages, I realized that many of the webmasters linking out were doing so on their own<\/strong>. Sites like this guy<\/a> were putting the widgets on their home page, and I’m only concerned about the links that N2E is placing on the sites through corporate policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So this meant that we needed to find the template pages where N2E is automatically placing the widgets.<\/strong> N2E uses the same page naming structure on all of their templates, so again, it wasn’t that difficult. We already knew they place the widgets on all of the “myhomes.asp” pages, and are providing them 11,200 links on these. I dugg a little more, and found a TON of dynamically generated pages that all have “myhomedtl” in the URL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I ran this link analysis<\/a>, and found an additional 25,200 links coming from N2E sites. Add that to the 11,200 links coming from the myhomes.asp<\/a> pages, and we’re at a total of 36,400 links that are automatically placed on Number2Expert site<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n

To put it in perspective, BloodhoundRealty.com has a total of 48,600 incoming links<\/a>. Activerain has a total of 13,500 incoming links<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trulia has a total of 164k backlinks<\/a>. Number2Expert sites make up over 22% of their link profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you guys think this might be partially responsible for Trulia’s rankings?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here’s a basic resource on how to check backlinks using yahoo.<\/a><\/p>\n

More in the blogosphere:<\/strong><\/p>\n