* Found Traffic Marks via Matt McGee at Small Business SEM
* Traffic Marks focuses on identifying quality sites to acquire inbound links from for the benefit of obtaining top rankings in Google
* Traffic Marks offers a Free registration (limited function)
* Traffic Marks offers a paid version (deeper results)
* 3 sections for data
Section #1 – “Top Traffic Marks” for your targeted phrase
- list is created based on compiling the shared (or sites they have in common) back-links of top ten results
- details are provided for each top “Traffic Mark” showing the number of links from that source
- back link information appears to be based off the link: function from Google’s SERPs
Section #2 – “Top Ten Results” based on Google’s SERPs
- self explanatory
Section #3 – “Search Results” combined with Traffic Marks
- This section is a visual representation of Google’s Top Ten SERPs and the Top Traffic Marks
- based in a table format that
Traffic Marks’ results include the sub-listings (indented) results straight from Google’s SERPs. These sub-listings show zero inbound links from above results.
Traffic Marks demonstrates that back-links are important for high rankings in Google but do not represent the “trump card”. Sites that have more inbound links from the “hub” sites aren’t automatically #1 in Google for that search term. A balanced SEO strategy including good content, domain age, site structure, inbound anchor text, etc is still important.
I do like the information provided by Traffic Marks. I think Traffic Marks provides the initial steps needed to identify where to acquire quality back-links. After identifying these “high value targets”, I believe it’s very important to develop a strategy (and a reason) for these targeted sites to link to.
