Value of a link from own site vs. 3rd party site
 

If a value of a link from third party website is 100, what would be the value of the link from that website if it would be owned by me? (for Google SEO; given that all other variables are the same) - 10? 50? 100?
Have you done any tests on this? What are your experiences?

And if I want to make my websites look like they have different owner, what should I be careful about? Besides different domain whois, class C IP, content and design. What about referrer code in my affiliate links?

Thanks...

All the experts I tasked to, the ones who get results versus talk, say different IPs, whois, etc. is a waste of time.

Let's consider the simplest case of a single domain with thousands of pages, all of which link to to one page. Think geocities, with thousands of pages all linking to the geocities home page. What those links are "claiming" is that the home page is the most important of all the pages. That claim is true! So Google had no need to weed that out. The PR algorithm, working as it normally does, just learns which of your pages is the main page.

Without incoming links from sites with PR, your feeder pages have little PR to pass, so there is no problem that Google needs to solve by looking at IPs.

The value of a link for PR is dependent on two numbers - the PR of the page doing the linking, and the number of links on the page. For example, if a page has a raw PR score of 1000, that's 1000 PR points it wil pass to it's links. If the page has 10 links, each gets 1/10th of the PR, or 100 raw PR points.

That stuff is bullshit.

Build a decent site and google and will recognize that.

holy shit, 2/3 posts with business info.... wow. amazing! now quit it. :1orglaugh

:2 cents: And that's just the bottom line from my personal experience...

It would be difficult to give it an actual value. :) I don't think it matters so much the site was "owned" by you than the authority of the site it's getting it's link from. The authority of the site you're getting your link from and how you're linked are determining factors in the signal Google receives for that link. The true authority of a site and the importance of the link depends on many many factors such as the age of the linking site, the age of the link itself, the relevancy of the content/site, social presence...and the list goes on. There are over 200 ranking signals Google uses. My point being is there is so much more involved than you just being the owner of the site or not.

As this maybe true and it is the BASIC premise of it all, if this was the only thing you needed to do all people would do is build decent sites and SEO wouldn't exist.

That is very useful and eye opening post. Thanks... But in my scenario I'm assuming that these factors stay the same.
Although some comparison of their relative importance to PageRank would be interesting. :)

I just wanted to know if google discounts links from sites with the same IP, whois or where it assumes that the owner is the same.