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From the Desk of Dom “The Hodge” Hodgson<\/a> comes something he built in a day, LinkDAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like the old BBC Celebdaq<\/a>, its a “Stock” Trading Game, but instead of trading stocks and shares, you are trading links.<\/p>\n

In this case the Cost to invest in a link is linked to the number of other sites that link to that site.
\nSo a site such as Facebook.com and Twitter.com, which are linked to from lots of other sites, rank highly and cost more, in comparison to other sites, such as my own.<\/p>\n

It’s using data provided by Majestic SEO. To quote the site:<\/p>\n

We use the top 50,000 websites from the MajesticSEO Million dataset, this lists the top sites as ordered by links from unique i.p. addresses, we take this information and use a simple formula to give each domain a daily price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Going to play it for a couple of days to see where it goes, and how things pan out, come and join me if you fancy it<\/a>! So far I’m down about $600 on my initial investments, but we shall see what happens tomorrow!<\/p>\n

For something built in a mere 24 hours its rather good, and it uses Twitter Bootstrap for it’s Framework, and it has a legitimate use of the good old HTML Marquee tag! And Dom should be pushing out updates and things to the site, and tweaking the algorithm.<\/p>\n

You can also follow the developments on Twitter @linkDAQ and @TheHodge<\/p>\n

There is also a TimeLapse video of the code being written:<\/p>\n