Strange link backs

[jbloggs]

Hi all

been looking at the keyword research tool , phrase is dog beds site at number 10 is

**www.ideas-4-pets.com    **

opened site explorer

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains?site=www.ideas-4-pets.com%2F

Took at a look at linking root domains

ths guy has some huge linking domains , so thought I would take a look at how they managed to get links from sites like Samsung , the UN , Php.net,

Linking Root Domain	Domain Authority	Linking Root Domains
*.parallels.com/	97	129,927
*.php.net/	97	201,007
*.dmoz.org/	94	80,621
*.swsoft.com/	92	24,586
*.samsung.com/	89	54,125
*.oreilly.com/	88	48,350
*.undp.org/	88	21,578

I cant understand how he has got links off psd files or on page assets like embedded swf files. Anyone know how they are dong this , is this pure Darth Vader black hat >>???

Thanks in advance

May the Google be with You

[AsafY]

I've seen that too.

one of my competitors has a link from data.london.gov.uk

which looks like a strange file download

First I thought it was some sort of a bug,

but he has a couple of those.

Asaf

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[RyanKent]

Please see Carin's response to this issue in another Q&A: http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer

In short, it's a bug with the last Linkscape index. OSE is scheduled to be updated on Tuesday and that will (hopefully) resolve this issue.