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Originally Posted by dcortez
1) Knowing where your traffic comes from is SE 101 but doing a 'family tree' of links to your site (which can be done with a few free SE searches) does not give ANY indication of their relative impact on your traffic or value to your web endeavours.
2) The spirit of actively trying to circumvent your own affiliates' traffic models (and hard work) is a very bad faith gesture (sleezeball tactic).
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1) There is alot of qualitative analysis that can be done. Google's own PR algorithm applies linking relationships to determine ranking. The report can't show metrics like actual visitors, but you can gain some inferences of looking at where the traffic is coming from, along with number of linking relationships. On the simple surface, more linking relationships can mean potential flows of traffic.
You can try mining search engines for data, but each result only gives you 1,000 results.. and you have to do alot of keyword toying to be able to get additional results, and then you have to be able to create the linking relationships.
Your observation seems to be very SE-centric..and t3report is looking at things from the flipside, where linking relationships are the gold mine of traffic. Rather than competing with SEO to get one of the top 1000 query results, a website can tap into traffic that is accumulated from however they get it and looking to direct it elsewhere.
T3report's analysis shows benefit, the second a person leaves a SE result. That first website can then direct people to additional places.
2) How an Affiliate Manager uses this tool is up to them.. if they do this "sleaze ball tactic", how is that any different than "shaving" or other deceptive practices? Some affiliate managers will use the report in to order to encourage existing affiliates who aren't sending alot of traffic, to send more traffic if through the analysis, they see potential of their traffic from where they are receiving the traffic.
Fight the Analysis!