>Is there any practical way of telling which links are
>helping you, and by how much? I know there are ways of
>measuring the value of a link (most notably PR), but at the
>end of the day, it seems like it's nearly impossible to get
>tell what's actually working for you and what's not if
>you're building links from many different sources like you
>should.
>
>Maybe I'm just thinking about this the wrong way? There's a number of ways to guess, such as high "authority", low number of links on page/site, PR, relevance, etc.
You can also test to some degree. Set up a few sites and use 1/2 the bookmarking sites for these, set up other sites and use the other 1/2 of bookmarking sites.
Compare these to other sites that used, RSS, etc.
However, even this leaves many holes in conclusions. It may be best to use a few bookmarking sites and RSS, for example.
However, our goal here is to build a number of sites and "gently" cross-link them, bringinh in more links to the network from resources offered in Think Links, etc.
The goal is to raise the "value" of all of our resouces just a bit, making our resources "high quality" link sources.
I believe this is best done by having many resourcs, many links of different types, and linking to pages that link to us, as much as possible.