Trusted Sites Tool returning non relevant results

01 Dec 09 3:08 am

Hi Terry,
What tool are you referring to?

also, that link will only work for yourself... no one else can see it.

Welcome to Affilorama by the way.

Regards
Troy

01 Dec 09 3:50 am

@terrykoz That phrase would have been pickup on those pages in your report. It checks those pages for that phrase or similar and returns the results that only match on that phrase or a relevant one.

01 Dec 09 4:14 pm

Thanks for the response.

Understand, however, the usefulness of the tool is much less than what I expected given the tiny proportion of relevant results I got in comparison to the number of non-relevant journalism related results. It's not how many org and gov results that come back, but how many of those bear any relation to even a broad connection to subject being searched.

But that's why it's good that there's a trial period to see how things actually function. I will play with it some more with some other keyword phrases as well.

Thanks for taking the time to assist me.

Terry

04 Dec 09 11:11 am

I find that for most niches the results are highly relevant. However, even if they aren't relevant, gaining ANY links from .edu or .gov sites is hugely valuable, even if they are irrelevant.

For instance, I gained an irrelevant link to one of my affiliate sites recently from a .gov website. I simply made a highly relevant reply to a question that they asked (I had to spend about 10 mins on google looking up the answer to their question and crafting my response, as I didn't want a moderator to remove it). Then in my signature, I linked to my website using some crafty wording.

Within 2 weeks google had picked up my link; and my rankings for that keyword are already on the move upwards (will have to wait another couple of weeks and build a few more links to see it hit page one, but it has gone from page 7 to page 2).

Relevancy is hugely important, but when it comes to .edu and .gov domains, I'll take what I can get as they are very powerful links to get no matter what the relevancy. Just make sure you make relevant comments on the pages you comment on, so that your comments get accepted and not moderated out.

That said, the tool usually does find websites that are highly relevant to the keyword phrase you enter.

08 Jan 10 4:24 pm

I had the same experience with a keyword that I submitted to the tool. However when I submitted other relevant keywords to my site subject matter, the tool provided many useful high PR forums from which I was able to leave more than enough relevant comments with backlinks.

So try other relevant keywords.