This post is written by Ben Hendrickson and Rand Fi email lists australia shkin as a follow up to Ben's presentation at the Distilled/SEOmoz training seminar in London this week) Our web index, Linkscape, updated again recently, and in addition to provide the traditional stats, we thought we'd share some of the cutting edge research work we do here. Below, you'll find a post which requires extremely close and careful reading. Correlation data doesn't have all the answers, but it's certainly very interesting.
Likewise, the ranking models data provides a great deal of insight, but it would be dangerous to simply look at the charts without reading the post carefully. There's a number of caveats and information - raw lines can mislead by themselves, so please be diligent! [UPDATE Oct 26, 2009: There used to be a mistake. . That line was previously incorrect. Instead of being the number of unique domains linking to the target page, it was the number of unique domains linking anywhere on the domain of the target page.