yesterday I received a mail from high pr society...
First, let's go over what's different:
As always, in the interest of full disclosure, some things you may or may not like:
what do you guys think about it? last time I used it before the G update then I was hitted!
First, let's go over what's different:
- The focus is on overall network health. No nickle and diming for extra PR on your links. All of your links will average out to be on awesome sites and we want to eliminate price confusion.
- We added global network statistics so you can see at a glance where links are going. These numbers should be relatively stable and reflect the current network.
- We added an OBL counter for your links. This is the most important metric because it's the slice of link juice love you get for a given link. Most sites and services will be over 50 OBL with many over 100.
- We've removed sites that no longer had value and added a new batch ~800 sites. We now have just under 2000 sites on the network.
- We determine a site has value based upon the indexing status at Google, Bing, and/or Majestic, backlink counts, age, PR, DMOZ listing, OBL, etc. We compute the site value using a weighting formula we devised internally, and if a site is no longer strong, we'll remove it from rotation.
- We've streamlined home page, contextual, and article links to be a single flat fee. (Any existing links are grandfathered in at whatever PR and price you had)
- We've isolated the network into 9 different mini-networks for security.
As always, in the interest of full disclosure, some things you may or may not like:
- We have several templates for the site designs. They are ugly and may not pass a manual review. This isn't important as we learned from the earlier Google attacks, so it's not a big focus of us. We don't have an HTML footprint on the primary templates and randomize the HTML tags, privacy policy page, etc.
- We don't allow crawlers other than Googlebot. Your links won't show up in Majestic, ahrefs, etc.
- We've learned that a blog's indexing at Google isn't important for passing link juice (and thus improving your ranking). Therefore a deindexed site may stay in the network if the other strength indicators are there (PR being an important one). We have a detailed case study on this shared from another big network owner if you're interested in learning more - just shoot an email.
what do you guys think about it? last time I used it before the G update then I was hitted!