Comments on: Deep Link Ratio - Cool Tool http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:02:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: dude http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-750407 dude Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:55 +0000 379265684#comment-750407 Cool i will chack it! Thanks for the Information! Cool i will chack it!
Thanks for the Information!

]]> By: someonewhois http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5405 someonewhois Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5405 <p>Cool, thanks for the link!</p> Cool, thanks for the link!

]]> By: bwarrene http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5406 bwarrene Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5406 <p>Great link and neat tool.</p> Great link and neat tool.

]]> By: hotnuts21 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5407 hotnuts21 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5407 <p>OK Cool tool, but how can it help me? Is it good to have a high DLR or is it preferable to have a low DLR, does it actually make much difference to the rankings?<br /> Both this blog and the sites information, doesnt point out how it can help you, now I can guess but im playing devils advocate, plenty of people wont know how this will help them! Or what they should do with the results.</p> OK Cool tool, but how can it help me? Is it good to have a high DLR or is it preferable to have a low DLR, does it actually make much difference to the rankings?
Both this blog and the sites information, doesnt point out how it can help you, now I can guess but im playing devils advocate, plenty of people wont know how this will help them! Or what they should do with the results.

]]> By: Mike Jackson http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5408 Mike Jackson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5408 <p>Gotta echo hotnuts21 - what does this tell me? What is this really analyzing? Why when I enter two wildly different search terms do the results for my site come back the same? Is a 94.222% DLR good or bad?</p> Gotta echo hotnuts21 - what does this tell me? What is this really analyzing? Why when I enter two wildly different search terms do the results for my site come back the same? Is a 94.222% DLR good or bad?

]]> By: Nerveman http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5409 Nerveman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5409 <p>They explain it here for you: <br /> http://www.webuildpages.com/seo-tools/tool_info.php</p> They explain it here for you:
http://www.webuildpages.com/seo-tools/tool_info.php

]]> By: mrsmiley http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5410 mrsmiley Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5410 <p>Cant say reading that explaination I understand it either. To me a higher number is preferable. In some cases I can see negative DLR figures appearing for some sites. I'm assuming that is far from good.</p> Cant say reading that explaination I understand it either. To me a higher number is preferable. In some cases I can see negative DLR figures appearing for some sites. I’m assuming that is far from good.

]]> By: Kadence http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5411 Kadence Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5411 <p>Very interesting tool, though this ratio doesn't seem to matter much for rankings, from what I see.</p> Very interesting tool, though this ratio doesn’t seem to matter much for rankings, from what I see.

]]> By: hotnuts21 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5412 hotnuts21 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5412 <p>The page posted by nerveman explains how it works, which is nice and clear. However it does not tell me what is a good DLR to have and how to use the results.<br /> The test I ran came out with a mix of results, with no pattern to high and low DLR so didnt really seem to make any difference to the rankings. As an idea is the DLR from 1-10 8.333%, 4.918%, 4.000%, 57.377%, 0.000%, 0.000%, 24.691%, 92.553%, 98.305%, 1.905%. As you can see no real pattern.</p> The page posted by nerveman explains how it works, which is nice and clear. However it does not tell me what is a good DLR to have and how to use the results.
The test I ran came out with a mix of results, with no pattern to high and low DLR so didnt really seem to make any difference to the rankings. As an idea is the DLR from 1-10 8.333%, 4.918%, 4.000%, 57.377%, 0.000%, 0.000%, 24.691%, 92.553%, 98.305%, 1.905%. As you can see no real pattern.

]]> By: Roger Smolski http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/04/20/deep-link-ratio-cool-tool/#comment-5413 Roger Smolski Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 379265684#comment-5413 <p>Maybe I can help since I initially developed the Deep Link Ratio.</p> <p>Firstly the tool over on webuildpages does not actually calculate the Deep Link Ratio. I am not sure what formula they are using but it certainly not the correct one. The version they are using will produce anomalous results as you can see with this example: Input the search phrase 'search engine marketing' and observe that one result has a negative DLR which is of course mathematically impossible. I have suggested to Jim Boykin that he uses the formula contained in my original explanation here http://www.text-link-ads.co.uk/deep-link-ratio.shtml</p> <p>Secondly there is absolutely no correlation between the search results and DLR in Google, MSN and Yahoo according to my research. However it is a useful tool for evaluating sites on which site-wide text links might be placed. The theory being that the higher the DLR the more traffic that will generated from site-wides, within the same sector, and in general I have found this to be the case.</p> <p>Hope that helps clarify DLR.</p> <p>- Roger</p> Maybe I can help since I initially developed the Deep Link Ratio.

Firstly the tool over on webuildpages does not actually calculate the Deep Link Ratio. I am not sure what formula they are using but it certainly not the correct one. The version they are using will produce anomalous results as you can see with this example: Input the search phrase ’search engine marketing’ and observe that one result has a negative DLR which is of course mathematically impossible. I have suggested to Jim Boykin that he uses the formula contained in my original explanation here http://www.text-link-ads.co.uk/deep-link-ratio.shtml

Secondly there is absolutely no correlation between the search results and DLR in Google, MSN and Yahoo according to my research. However it is a useful tool for evaluating sites on which site-wide text links might be placed. The theory being that the higher the DLR the more traffic that will generated from site-wides, within the same sector, and in general I have found this to be the case.

Hope that helps clarify DLR.

- Roger

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