Want some Authority Quickly
W3C Mailing lists are Public, so you can spam them a little, by just asking Questions .. lol
You see how www.digitalofficeworld.com asked a simple question, a couple years ago gets them a PR6 link today 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2005Jun/0130.html
DaveN
ShoeMoney 2193 days ago
http://www.shoemoney.cominteresting. I thought I remembered a bit back where awall posted he purchased a link from w3c for like 1k or so? but then cutts posted that wc3 links were not given credit
Richard Hearne 2193 days ago
http://www.redcardinal.ie@Shoe – I think that related to the ‘sponsors’ page. I doubt they tuned out the juice from the rest of the site, but who knows?
Jeremy Luebke 2193 days ago
Interesting how http://www.digitalofficeworld.com has a PR0 and only the index page indexed. Maybe they have been bad boys.
Jack 2193 days ago
http://www.digitalbricklayer.com/blog/Nice find…if you dig around you can get a PR7 link! Whether it passes anything through though is another matter.
Santi Hache 2193 days ago
http://www.eyefall.co.uk/blogIt was just in the Supporters page.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
The cheapest PR9 link you could ever get!!!
Then the quality team at the Big G discovered and… adios PR9 link….adios 1k (minimum ammount you need to contribute to earn the right to be listed). Funnily enough I can’t find the link to SEOBOOK anymore…
Dave Davis 2193 days ago
http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/@Richard, yes I believe it was the sponsored page only as it was labeled as such.
Interesting though that the site in question has a TBPR of 0 right now. Would certainly indicate that no green juice is being passed.
XRide 2193 days ago
@Jeremy, it appears that that’s the only link they actually have – according to yahoo
Ant Onaf 2193 days ago
http://www.antonaf.com/blog/Its funny how authority sites are being careless with link value. I blogged the other day about getting a link on Google PR7
*** that wasn’t meant to be a shameless plug … it just relates to this story ***
In any event, I see the tides changing and SEO is targeting authority sites which allow member/visitor interaction while providing a link back to your website. I can see product reviews, testimonials, and customer comments on the rise.
David Eaves 2193 days ago
Santi – That is a list of people who are actual members of W3, the supporters page is here:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup
The links are followed and I would think they have some value but not much due to the amount of outbounds on the page.
David Eaves 2193 days ago
SEOBook’s link has probably expired as the links only last for twelve months.
JonK 2193 days ago
David Eaves – The individual links aren’t nofollowed, but there’s a nofollow in the meta tags.
Esrun 2192 days ago
http://www.onlinehoster.com/blogLMAO Dave!!!! I’m loving the example! :p
seoidiot 2192 days ago
http://www.seoidiot.com/seoblog/lmao
quadszilla 2192 days ago
http://seoblackhat.comThe target site, digitalofficeworld.com, has no page rank and no alexa ranking. So either gone are the days that a page rank 6 link will get you a page rank 4 or 5, or that link was just not counted.
Esrun 2192 days ago
http://www.onlinehoster.com/blogHm http://www.digitalofficeworld.com/ certainly is an interesting site, although I’m not sure on the page rank of http://www.digitalofficeworld.com supose digital office world is an interesting enough name.
Smello Man 2192 days ago
On the topic of office stuff I was searching for Toshiba office equipment and I came across http://www.digipro.co.uk/. It’s odd because I heard that these were the same people and they were getting really worked up because they were starting to drop in the search engines for terms like Toshiba office equipment and felt like they just had to blame someone and they started getting angry at random seos.
Secure Hosting 2191 days ago
http://www.securehost.comDaveN, here is another one that I found as well. Google is listing it is a backlink to dorward.me.uk
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2006Nov/0060.html
dorward.me.uk seems to have a PR9, btw !!
ghost 2191 days ago
I spammed the hell out of MIT student blogs a year or 2 ago… they had moved everyone’s blogs to a new domain, but mit.edu had GREAT cred, and all of the blog pages were still there! It was spam that offended no one; no one looked at those pages anymore… but even 4 subdirectories deep, there were scads of PR6 pages… I got a pile of PR6 links and lept to PR5 on the next pagerank update…
SEO Methodology 2190 days ago
http://www.sendtraffic.com/SEO-Methodology.phpAren’t we going a little PR crazy here?
What about relevance? Does it matter anymore?
Bas Spierenburg 2178 days ago
http://www.balloonairborneservice.comHow about my website? Is it possible to get a PR 5 or higher with this site? http://www.balloonairborneservice.com