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		<title>by: Link Building this Year &#124; Wiep.net</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comment-25312</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] Relevance, Authority and Transfer. A great post that you might have missed is Peter van der Graaf&#8217;s post about RAT Link Value. The value of a link is something that has also been discussed by Matt McGee. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Relevance, Authority and Transfer. A great post that you might have missed is Peter van der Graaf&#8217;s post about RAT Link Value. The value of a link is something that has also been discussed by Matt McGee. [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Peter van der Graaf</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comment-2341</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Hello Troy,

I hope my dofollow linklove makes your website number one for the term "linklover", because that seems to be what you're trying to do.

Tip 1: Place a space between linklover and orbit now in for instance your title.
Tip 2: If you've read the RAT checklist, you know that you have to make the link extremely relevant for the term you want to score for. If that term is "linklover", combinations of the words link, url, links, linking, love, loving, lover, etc. should be represented in the paragraph that contains the link (linklover doesn't have many other related terms).
Tip 3: The anchor text itself should contain the word linklover and little or no other text, but always in a different combination. Otherwise the combination gets more focus than the single word.
Here's an example:

"If you want to show proper love to a good resource, you should link without nofollowing it. Linking is the internet way of showing affection. Read the following article to find out more about taking care of &lt;a href="http://troyworman.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/proper-care-and-feeding-of-your-linklover/" target="_blank"&gt;your linklover&lt;/a&gt; and returning the love.  If you write a related article that links to mine, I'm more than willing to return your loving."

This paragraph, high up on a page that is high up in the navigation on a relevant site will give the best results. I hope placing it in a comment gives you enough love to help your ranking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Troy,</p>
<p>I hope my dofollow linklove makes your website number one for the term &#8220;linklover&#8221;, because that seems to be what you&#8217;re trying to do.</p>
<p>Tip 1: Place a space between linklover and orbit now in for instance your title.<br />
Tip 2: If you&#8217;ve read the RAT checklist, you know that you have to make the link extremely relevant for the term you want to score for. If that term is &#8220;linklover&#8221;, combinations of the words link, url, links, linking, love, loving, lover, etc. should be represented in the paragraph that contains the link (linklover doesn&#8217;t have many other related terms).<br />
Tip 3: The anchor text itself should contain the word linklover and little or no other text, but always in a different combination. Otherwise the combination gets more focus than the single word.<br />
Here&#8217;s an example:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you want to show proper love to a good resource, you should link without nofollowing it. Linking is the internet way of showing affection. Read the following article to find out more about taking care of <a href="http://troyworman.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/proper-care-and-feeding-of-your-linklover/" target="_blank">your linklover</a> and returning the love.  If you write a related article that links to mine, I&#8217;m more than willing to return your loving.&#8221;</p>
<p>This paragraph, high up on a page that is high up in the navigation on a relevant site will give the best results. I hope placing it in a comment gives you enough love to help your ranking.
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		<title>by: &#187; Proper Care and Feeding of Your Linkloverorbit now! &#187; Blog Archive</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comment-2333</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] But the Key is to Make It (the link) Relevant:  Peter van der Graaf is a 10 year veteran of Search Engine Marketing. His blog is Linklove. In his March 8th post, RAT link value checklist, Peter demystifies the RAT (Relevant Authority Transfer) equation with a checklist. The checklist contains 18 items and takes some time to work through, but reportedly gets results. I have yet to try it myself, but will soon and will post my findings at Orbit Now! In the meantime, if anyone has walked this list and would like to share their experience with 100 Bloggers, please do so with a comment. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] But the Key is to Make It (the link) Relevant:  Peter van der Graaf is a 10 year veteran of Search Engine Marketing. His blog is Linklove. In his March 8th post, RAT link value checklist, Peter demystifies the RAT (Relevant Authority Transfer) equation with a checklist. The checklist contains 18 items and takes some time to work through, but reportedly gets results. I have yet to try it myself, but will soon and will post my findings at Orbit Now! In the meantime, if anyone has walked this list and would like to share their experience with 100 Bloggers, please do so with a comment. [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Peter van der Graaf</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comment-1802</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>This article got listed on &lt;a href="http://100bloggers.com/2007/04/09/proper-care-and-feeding-of-your-linklover/" target="_blank"&gt;Linklove article&lt;/a&gt;. I'm always more than happy to return the love. Hopefully a link from my blog gives you RAT for the searchterm "linklove" or "linklover". Because it seems that was the intention when you mentioned me.

And a few free tips for the owner of 100bloggers:
- Both the "www" and non www version are used and your linklove isn't focussed on just one of them. Your internal links are to the non-www, but Pagerank is on the www version.
- Make it easier for people to comment. I wanted to, but when you need to login to do so, I'm not going to feel part of your blog. And when you want linklove, you need to make people feel that they're getting something in return (like shared exposure). Commenting gives people that feeling.
- Relevance is fun, but the right order of importance is TAR in most current search engine algorithms. First comes Transfer: No transfer, no linklove. Then Authority: Even less relevant authority is better then no authority at all. And last comes relevance: You can always make an authority more relevant.

Hopefully this comment gives your article alot of TAR for linklove.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article got listed on <a href="http://100bloggers.com/2007/04/09/proper-care-and-feeding-of-your-linklover/" target="_blank">Linklove article</a>. I&#8217;m always more than happy to return the love. Hopefully a link from my blog gives you RAT for the searchterm &#8220;linklove&#8221; or &#8220;linklover&#8221;. Because it seems that was the intention when you mentioned me.</p>
<p>And a few free tips for the owner of 100bloggers:<br />
- Both the &#8220;www&#8221; and non www version are used and your linklove isn&#8217;t focussed on just one of them. Your internal links are to the non-www, but Pagerank is on the www version.<br />
- Make it easier for people to comment. I wanted to, but when you need to login to do so, I&#8217;m not going to feel part of your blog. And when you want linklove, you need to make people feel that they&#8217;re getting something in return (like shared exposure). Commenting gives people that feeling.<br />
- Relevance is fun, but the right order of importance is TAR in most current search engine algorithms. First comes Transfer: No transfer, no linklove. Then Authority: Even less relevant authority is better then no authority at all. And last comes relevance: You can always make an authority more relevant.</p>
<p>Hopefully this comment gives your article alot of TAR for linklove.
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		<title>by: Gerben</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comment-1001</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Hi Peter,

Nice part...it's a lot of work to make sure every link is created by your RAT Checklist, but it really DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.....

Thanx for the overview, nice work again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Peter,</p>
<p>Nice part&#8230;it&#8217;s a lot of work to make sure every link is created by your RAT Checklist, but it really DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE&#8230;..</p>
<p>Thanx for the overview, nice work again!
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