ILQ is an acronym for Inbound Link Quality, which is a score calculated by the quality of links to a website. This doesn’t take into account all of your links, instead it simply focuses on Yahoo Directory links (worth 1 point each, but generally you get 15 links from a listing), DMOZ listings (30 points per listing), .edu listings (worth 45 points each) and .gov listings (worth 67 points each).
As you can see, the rating doesn’t take into account links from all kinds of high ranking websites, nor does it take into account the relevance of other inbound links. However, it can prove to be a useful guide. Here are a few examples of different ILQ scores:
BBC: ILQ score: 1,928,870 | Y! 10,400 | DMOZ 1,920 | edu 39,700 | gov 1,110
CNN: ILQ score: 5,045,390 | Y! 5,190 | DMOZ 520 | edu 106,000 | gov 3,800
Ebay.co.uk ILQ score: 2,767 | Y! 15 | DMOZ 7 | edu 55 | gov 1
Play.com ILQ score: 2,796 | Y! 6 | DMOZ 3 | edu 60 | gov 0
Unsurprisingly:
Google.com ILQ score: 100,166,600 | Y! 600 | DMOZ 638,000 | edu 1,610,000 | gov 128,000
