I’m starting to see embedded links for fishwrapper. TMZ does that anytime you quote their text. The wikipedia for back link doesn’t help much.
Why would a major web site want traffic directed elsewhere. Isn’t their revenue from web site traffic?
Whats fishwrapper doing?
From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a regular hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory.
A backlink is a reference comparable to a citation. The quantity, quality, and relevance of backlinks for a web page are among the factors that search engines like Google evaluate in order to estimate how important the page is. PageRank calculates the score for ...
http://www.freewebsitereport.org/www.fishwrapper.com
Fishwrapper.com has ranked #12 ,750 in the world according to Alexa website ranking. The estimated website net worth based on it’s traffic value and online website advertisement revenue alone is around $188,941. Fishwrapper.com receives 86,275 pageviews per day and generates nearly $259 in daily ad revenue. The average page load time is 3 seconds, which is faster than 15% of sites around the world. Fishwrapper.com has website backlinks from #200 website.
Is this like a mirror site? People used to host downloads for freeware. The mirror site took the load of the software developers web site,
Perhaps an example will help. The fishwrapper link is included any time text is quoted from TMZ. I’m pretty sure they provide back links to other sites too.
What ever a back link is.
Pro fireballer Brian Wilson says it’s “f**king exciting” to bring his talents – and his tremendous facial hair – to L.A., telling TMZ he’s pumped to play for the Dodgers.
A mohawked Wilson was leaving Equinox gym in L.A. yesterday – right after signing a 1-year, $1 million deal with the Dodgers – and expressed his excitement as only Brian Wilson can.
“Well, I’m a pretty big America fan … red, white and Dodger blue, I guess.”
Read more: Brian Wilson -- 'F**king Excited' to Play for the L.A. Dodgers http://www.fishwrapper.com
They’re both owned by EHM Productions. Right at the top of the Fishwrapper site it says “A Property of TMZ.” They are trying to send traffic to their other site, because TMZ doesn’t need a traffic bump, they get plenty.
I guess that web site report I found lead me astray. Thanks.
d1a1s1
August 1, 2013, 4:59am
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I don’t have a cite at the moment but I recall that a websites ranking (as far as where it will come up on a websearch) can be determined by how many websites link back to it.