MoneySupermarket the £1 billion affiliate site
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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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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I see alot of homepage links for MoneySupermarket.com Are they buying those at DP?
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.
It only makes sense to use the basic and proven methods of SEO. If its not broken…
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
It seems moneyexpert.com are the biggest link buyers with over 13 million inbound links, even more links than the BBC site!
Its True…”biggest link buyers with over 13 million inbound links, even more links than the BBC site!”
nice post i haave RSS’d you, please update more often
thankyou