Majestic SEO Blog

iPad Competition Winner and Highly commended

Congratulations to Wiep, for his web post on creating geo-heatmaps based on link data. He is about to be the proud owner of a spanking new iPad, just as soon as we work out how to get it to him.

Alex and the team liked the “out of the box” thinking behind the idea and we would like to add it to the ever extending list of features that we want to put into Majestic’s web interface. In the meantime, I tried it for a site and got good looking results.

We would also like to give a special commendation to a few other entries.

Link Juice iPhone App takes our light API and puts it into the iPad/iPhone space.

We also liked “Bence’s” idea of using Majestic SEO to track on Analytics, Adsense etc. IDs. For example. The system can already  be used to track affiliate IDs in the url, but in theory, the crawler could extend its functionality to crawl for new elements of data. Choosing the new data elements to crawl would definitely need to have a commercial imperative, but clearly we would be in a position to implement this kind of enhancement.

Unfortunately for Cemper, his linkresearchtools entry came in too late for consideration, but also worth a look.

Thanks SO much for those that entered.

Top world domains by backlinks

I thought I’d knock out some Friday research. Below you can see the top 200 world domains ranked by number of external referring domains that pointed to them. Additionally we also show number of external backlinks that we are aware about if you cut and paste this list into our free bulk backlink checker where you can also get it in CSV format if you have a free account. All this data is derived from our Anchor Index. If you like this information and wish to spread it around then please mention the source of it: Majestic-SEO, a backlink to this table would be nice too. If you are interested in a bigger list feel free to contact us: contact@majesticseo.com.

Could not find your own or your competitors domains? You can search for them here! Enjoy.

Q: How large does a computer need to be for good SEO? A: TeraFlops!

Dixon Jones shows off new Teraflop Cluster

Today, Majestic 12, the company powering MajesticSEO, announces the commissioning of a new cluster of super computers.

Whilst most search engine marketers get their data from their PC and whatever Google and Yahoo hands them on a plate, a relatively small subset of the search community build their own programs and their own technologies to lift their understanding of search engine algorithms.

Most agencies can build these tools on PCs, drawing data from other sources – but eventually, someone needs to either get the data from first principals or rely on the benevolence of a search engine’s data… who, as Internet marketers will know, can be a fickle master.

So how far beyond a standard PC do you need to go to get the web’s back link data from first principals for example? (Back-link data is information about how different websites link to each other.)

Today, Majestic-12 – a leader in this technology – has announced that it has commissioned a new Teraflop Cluster to do its data crunching and storage. So is that big? Well some PCs now come with hard drives of a terabyte in size. Majestic almost have that much RAM. (That’s the fast memory bit, used for doing lots of fast calculations.)

When it comes to hard drives, their new computer cluster has raw storage of some 300 terabytes. So about 300-600 PCs worth… except that the speed with which they can be accessed is considerably faster., with the new computer cluster comprising of 12 dual processor nodes based on recently released six core Intel Xeon X5670 (2.93 Ghz) processors. Each node in the 12 node Cluster was tested with Intel Linpack benchmark to produce in excess of 130 GFLOPS each with total processing capacity in excess of 1.5 TFLOPs.

The Cluster runs bespoke software, which will enable Majestic to increase the speed of production of it’s Trillion-Scale Back-links index – which Majestic believes is the largest publicly available index of it’s type commercially available in the world today.

In addition to the Teraflop cluster, Majestic uses hundreds of donor computers around the world to crawl the web through its distributed crawler and additionally has servers in a data-center dedicated to the web interface for users to be able to access the compiled version of the database for under UK£10 (US$15) a month.

To subscribe to the system, choose a plan online at http://www.majesticseo.com/subscription-packages.php.

The hardware was supplier by Gigaserver – our supplier based in Holland.

iPad Competition Shortlist

Our iPad competition received quality over quantity when it came to entries and I am delighted that we received some well thought out suggestions, which are listed in the comments at http://blog.majesticseo.com/general/win-ipad/.

It is now up to Alex to have a look at the ideas and suggestions to decide on a winner.

Win an iPad for showing what Majestic SEO can do

Show us what Majestic SEO can do and win an iPad. (No – we don’t require a link.)

[EDIT: Entry deadline is the 21st June 2010.]

We originally thought our data was best for seeing the anchor text on links between different domains, but since we launched, we’ve found plenty of other ways of using our data set. As our readers and users are top notch SEOs and Internet Marketers, we thought that you would be able to tap into our data and come up with more imaginative ways to use it. So we want you to share your thoughts and ideas with us and with the community and we are willing to give an iPad to the person that comes up with the best idea on how to use MajesticSEO.

You can either show us great new ways of using our data or simply provide insight and tips on how to get the most out of the data.

How to enter

You can write up your entry in a number of ways. If you have a blog then why not write it there and just tell us the link to your entry in the comments. We may not publish your comments/location until the entry deadline for fairness and please use a valid email address if you expect to win. If you don’t blog, you can just email us your idea to ”newsletter” at majesticseo.com in 600 words or less and we will publish the best ones that make the short list.

If you don’t have an account with MajesticSEO, setting one up is free and you can also verify your own sites without charge if you want to use live data.

Do you want some Ideas?

Since we launched MajesticSEO we have found many different uses of the data. For example:

• Using Majestic to find affiliate links
• Using Majestic in the SEOBook Toolbar
• Visualizing Backlink anchor text differently

But I feel there is so much more that we can give the world! You might choose to do a case study on a verticle, or augment the MajesticSEO data with some other data to create something new. All posts will be considered, including posts written previously if you would like to enter these.

Conditions

By entering, you accept that we may look to develop your ideas without royalty and you agree that we are free to do so. You agree that MajesticSEO’s decision is final. You are responsible for any taxes or fees that may be applicable to the prize that may apply to your circumstances. The delivery of the iPad is subject to delivery availability dates in your country of residence. This competition is conducted in accordance with UK law. Entry deadline is the 21st June 2010.

Have a great post.