Comments on: Influence Scale http://jitendragupta.com/2006/12/13/influence-scale/ Personal Weblog of Jitendra Gupta Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Garritt Hampton http://jitendragupta.com/2006/12/13/influence-scale/#comment-7868 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:06:53 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/influence-scale/#comment-7868 Wow, Thanks for the hard work. While influence is very hard to gauge, your scatter plot shows a very clear, positive correlation between inbound links and inbound traffic. Many times we get so caught up in the idea of increasing our inbound links to influence our PageRank score, that we forget about the most basic and important reason for generating inbound links; driving traffic to our sites! I just wrote a long post on this very topic. I wish I would have found this post prior to publishing it. I will definitely have to add a link. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: dr. tv http://jitendragupta.com/2006/12/13/influence-scale/#comment-102 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:34:20 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/influence-scale/#comment-102 I’m glad that you found the data interesting.

I think the whole topic of influence is pretty difficult since most people probably won’t agree on what makes a blog/site influential. Not having a clear definition makes it difficult to define clear metrics. Plus, a blog/site could be very influential in a niche and have absolutely no broad influence.

As for links driving visitors, it’s probably no surprise to you that there are generally two types of sites in the upper left corner of the plot:

1. sites with a majority of visitors from organic search (good SEO)

2. sites with a majority of visitors from referrals (good link placement on a few sites that have heavy traffic and good CTR)

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