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Title: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: hacknoid on October 01, 2013, 05:11:35 PM

I just looked at the charts for the backlinks pointing to bitcoin.org (https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/bitcoin.org), and since about the 19th of September the number of links has gone through the roof!  Overall the count has gone from about 4.6 million on 16 Sept to 5.5 million as of today - on September 19/20 alone, there were more then 250K new links added!  :o

This seems to be very good news, although I have to wonder if there is a problem somewhere just contributing to the count?  The spike is new links seems quite extreme. 

From a quick check it looks like many more places are adding support for accepting Bitcoin as payment, which is great, but seems to have come out of the blue.  Any thoughts on this?  Any anomalies in the counting process that ahrefs uses that could account for this?  Any other reason for the sudden spike?


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: RoadToHell on October 01, 2013, 06:46:04 PM
You might want to post this question over at webmasterworld (http://www.webmasterworld.com/).  There are a bunch of SEO types there that would probably know about the reliability of the stats coming from ahrefs and also whether or not there were any recent changes to how those stats are calculated.

[edit]You will want to make the question more generic by not including the bitcoin.org url[/edit]


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: matt608 on October 01, 2013, 06:56:24 PM
This looks very promising! 


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: klaus on October 01, 2013, 07:47:08 PM

WOW ! Amazing.


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: AndrewWilliams on October 01, 2013, 08:12:37 PM
Great news :)


I would think this would be driving the price of BTC up? Seems to be flat forever now though :?


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: will1982 on October 02, 2013, 01:39:48 AM
Great news :)


I would think this would be driving the price of BTC up? Seems to be flat forever now though :?

It's creeped up a tiny bit this past week.


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: AndrewWilliams on October 02, 2013, 05:25:06 PM
Great news :)


I would think this would be driving the price of BTC up? Seems to be flat forever now though :?

It's creeped up a tiny bit this past week.

Can't wait for some significant moves :D


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: greyhawk on October 02, 2013, 06:47:30 PM
Great news :)


I would think this would be driving the price of BTC up? Seems to be flat forever now though :?

It's creeped up a tiny bit this past week.

Can't wait for some significant moves :D

Look again now.  8)


Title: Re: Links to bitcoin.org skyrocketing since mid-Sept
Post by: AndrewWilliams on October 07, 2013, 05:22:59 PM
Great news :)


I would think this would be driving the price of BTC up? Seems to be flat forever now though :?

It's creeped up a tiny bit this past week.

Can't wait for some significant moves :D

Look again now.  8)


Not the movement I was looking for :\