MoneySupermarket the £1 billion affiliate site

by Patrick Altoft on July 12, 2007

Hopefully this will inspire some of you to read the affiliate marketing tips a few more times.

MoneySupermarket.com is worth about £1 billion, according to The Times.

Simon Nixon, the founder of moneysupermarket.com, is set to reap up to £126.6 million when the price comparison site floats on the London Stock Exchange later this month, valued at between £841 million and £1 billion.

What a lot of people might be pleased to hear is that even sites this big are well into basic SEO and link buying.

They buy links from several members of the DP forums and use article submission to get greate rankings. Check their links here.

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{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Adam Thompson 12/07/2007 at 11:58 pm: I see alot of homepage links for MoneySupermarket.com Are they buying those at DP?
2 Patrick Altoft 13/07/2007 at 9:37 am: If they are buying links to the mobile phone pages then it’s a fair assumption they are buying links to most of the pages. I’m not saying they buy links from DP but they are buying links from several DP members, probably in private deals.
3 azzam 16/07/2007 at 1:59 pm: It only makes sense to use the basic and proven methods of SEO. If its not broken…
4 InsidersView 16/07/2007 at 3:13 pm: Moneysupermarket are notorious link buyers - even the Financial Times were cloaking links to them a few years ago. More information can be seen on the moneysupermarket ipo post.

It’s going to be an interesting time for the UK insurance industry - we’ll see how the market reacts to the MSM floatation and the now aborted sale of confused.com
5 Phil Holt 29/08/2007 at 10:23 am: It seems moneyexpert.com are the biggest link buyers with over 13 million inbound links, even more links than the BBC site!
6 Banner_Man 19/12/2007 at 11:21 pm: Its True…”biggest link buyers with over 13 million inbound links, even more links than the BBC site!”
7 Anymnbibe 30/09/2008 at 10:27 am: nice post i haave RSS’d you, please update more often

thankyou