Get backlinks from pages that have backlinks.

Posted Sunday, December 3rd, 2006. Filed under Google.

Last week we released a handful of new SEO tools and updated some older ones. One of these has quickly become my new favorite: the Strongest Subpages tool, which helps you find the best pages to get links from.

If I found what appeared to be a great site that might give me some advertising space, I'd run it through this tool to find the most powerful subpages and try to get ads there. These are the pages that have been referenced the most, so the content must be of quality, and they probably get the most traffic and click-throughs.

If you're getting a link from a page that no other site links to, what is the true trust of that page? But if you get a link from a subpage that has lots of links to it, there's outside trust flowing there.

I sealed a deal already from one of the sites I contacted today. The first page I got an ad from had more backlinks than the site's homepage (the homepage had ~300 outside backlinks, the most powerful subpage had over 2000). This page was relevant to one of my clients, so I got an ad there, and another subpage with close to 200 backlinks got another ad for a different client.

41 Responses to “Get backlinks from pages that have backlinks.”

  1. Martin Muller Says:

    The only response which I have got from this tool is:
    Status: Bad Request: limit exceeded

    This tool sounds good, but I am not able to try it .

  2. Alfa Says:

    A few days ago, it was doing well. But I got that “Bad Request: limit exceeded” result just today. I’m sure this is just some bug that will soon be fixed.

  3. Jim Boykin Says:

    that happens when we’ve exceeded the yahoo api. Try again later.

  4. Mcfly Says:

    Same error msg for me

  5. Jim Boykin Says:

    yea, and you’ll continue to get that error until a certain time period has passed.
    Read this:
    http://developer.yahoo.com/search/rate.html
    just try again later.

  6. Content Blog Says:

    Get Backlinks from Pages that have Backlinks…

    Backlinks are more relevant if you get them from pages that have relevant backlinks — lots of them.

    ……

  7. Michael Duz Says:

    Jim how about letting the users input their own Yahoo application IDs.

  8. Igor M. Says:

    Jim this is an excellent tool not only for SEO for also for advertising. More links coming in … more traffic that page might see.

    Thank you.

    P.S. I’ll be sure to mention it on my blog.

  9. Christoph C. Cemper Says:

    Hey Jim - good writeup on the strongest subpage tool…

    @Michael - that won’t work … Yahoo does the rate filter based on the IP number that the request comes from, so you have to convince Jim to build a network of proxies to allow that - it’s not about the API ids (you can get as muchas you want), it’s about the IPs

  10. Jim Boykin Says:

    Christoph is correct in his response to Michael.
    We can make free, and overuse will stop some tools for working for a bit….or we can charge, and limit the use…but not sure if I want to charge….at least I’ve got my own private versions that always work

  11. Michael Duz Says:

    Christoph of course, silly me! Bad hair day

  12. Christian Müller Says:

    Hi Jim,

    I´ve tried the strongest subpage tool but it wouldn´t work for me because it automatically adds “www” to the domain name.

    As I have a 301 redirect from www to non-www version on my domain there are only few links pointing to the www-version and only the main page is indexed in Yahoo.

    If you fix this your tools could help a lot more webmasters.

    Christian

  13. Tudor Mateeescu Says:

    Yes Jim, let us input our own Yahoo application IDs.

  14. Tudor Mateeescu Says:

    waw.. is the de yahoo api

  15. Tudor Mateeescu Says:

    waw.. is there the yahoo api now i’ve seen it

  16. Tudor Mateeescu Says:

    4h post

    I’ve made myself 3 yahoo apis and with each one got the error
    Bad Request: limit exceeded

  17. Christoph C. Cemper Says:

    hmmm… I already added that this “own api-key” field is useless as the IPs of Jims server are tracked…

    for yahoo it is NOT an API-key (for a user, as with the Google API) but an “application-id” to help you track the requests made from one application over multiple servers/IPs

    in short - that change didn’t enhance anything, except Jim won’t be able to track the use of your application anymore if you all use different api keys

    if anyonedoesn’t want to register an own api key use this

    “strongestsubpages”

    cheers,christoph

  18. 97th Floor Says:

    Awesome Tool Jim use them all, all the time. It would be sweet if we could input our own apis

  19. 97th Floor Says:

    Just saw you can now that is sweet

  20. Tudor Mateeescu Says:

    Christoph C. Cemper I understand now. Thank you.

    So what Jim should do now, is to make a widget to put this tool on your website.

    And get some link love

  21. Christoph C. Cemper Says:

    Well, a local widget would require PHP/perl installation, a server that allows that kind of stuff installed on your server…

    OR - a little program to run in your browser - a plugin - and do all the queries decentralized

    (but that’s a scary thing - that’s also how email spam zombie bot networks are built

  22. Manish Says:

    Nice information there Jim… thanks for sharing…

    Sam…

  23. Jim Boykin Says:

    ok…looks like my programmer is experementing some…let’s see what we can do…..

  24. earlpearl Says:

    Some time ago I experimented with some websites as we were learning about linking and moving and changing links from banner ads to content links etc.

    How interesting–and I can confirm this from my own little experiment–now that I can check w/Jim’s tool. We got the most traffic from the pages w/the most inbound links.

    Thanks Jim.

  25. Incoming links value factors Says:

    [...] there should be lots of links to the linking page [...]

  26. Presell Page Man Says:

    Jim, another quality post - thanks for that!

    On your Yahoo API issue you have to buy a bunch of extra-IPs for your server and your programmer has to use sockets to map to those IPs… Been using that fine for 40 IPs, giving you 40×5000 = 200,000 requests per 24 hours possible to Yahoo …

    Sometimes you need more than a few searches to get good data

    Presell Page Man

  27. Brian’s Business Blog » Content development for links needs to be remarkable Says:

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  28. Mark Says:

    I would also add blogs with heavy trackbacks to my list of sites

  29. Bestmiler Says:

    Hey Jim, once again great post. I never knew that such a tool existed until now. The only thing I found somewhat misleading was that you shouldn’t worry so much about the quantity of links (you mentioned 2000 vs 300) but rather the quality of the links. Thanks for a great blog! keep up the good work

  30. Michael Says:

    Great Information, once again. Thanks.

  31. Business Says:

    What a great tool that Strongest Subpages tool is!

    Thanks so much

  32. Jitendra Says:

    Great tools,
    Specially i liked Strongest Subpages Tool very much, very usefull.
    Thanks.

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  35. Fabian Says:

    Thanks for sharing such a great tool.

    Greets from Germany!

  36. SEO Expert in Delhi Says:

    Jim it’s nice information for me… thanks for sharing…

  37. Demonz Web Says:

    This is indeed very sweet. We must always take precaution though to not make our links increase at an unnatural rate. It would be good if we could schedule a certain number of links on a daily basis.

  38. Mika Says:

    Just tried strongest subpages tool and it’s very useful.
    Thank you very much.

  39. William Says:

    Thanks for this information. Will you please write some words on what is the value of backlinks with different contents then your site?

    Thanks!

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  41. William SEO Says:

    Its really nice information that you provide about the quality of the back links. You are quite right that you should get a back link from the page which has reasonable back links and if these links are from the same nich it will also fulfill the conditions of co-citation.