What is the difference between local link popularity and global link popularity?

[deborah123]

local link popularity and global link popularity. What is the difference between them?

[williamc]

Page vs. Site

[mikelfennel]

The Defference Between local link popularity and global link popularity is

- Local refers to links from sites in a specific neighborhood while global link popularity doesn't discriminate and counts all links from any site on the web.

[weegillis]

So now we have two possibilities for 'local.'

1. Site.
2. links from sites in a specific neighborhood.

Easily, they could both be correct but I find #2 highly doubtful. We are referring to links, and I don't see the value in collating inbound links from my geographical 'neighborhood' (urban), and rather hold little expectation that my competitors will link to me (web). So I'm going with #1.

To expand on @williamc: How our site looks at itself is collated into local link popularity, and how other sites look at our site is collated into global link popularity.

[williamc]

The bot that posted #2 got it from a third worler forum from 2008.

http://www.geekpoint.net/seo-forum/5598-local-link-popularity-global-link-popularity.html

And thats the first I have heard it used that way.

[weegillis]

So does this make us both wrong, @williamc? That page seems to point to geographical location, which I don't quite fathom, but I've been wrong plenty before...

It appears the OP is a rip or repeat of the same cited thread. Puts the status of this thread in question, but I would love to know the correct answer to the OP, all the same.

[williamc]

So does this make us both wrong, @williamc? That page seems to point to geographical location

The only times I have heard the term used in over a decade by anyone I would consider 'in the know' was simply page vs site. Quite simply put, links to a 'page' give that page it's own link pop (local), global link popularity, quite simply is an aggregate of all links to the site. When have I heard the term used the way the bot used it? Well, let me just say link monkeys who really do not know anything except how to spam for links....

[weegillis]

With that, we deem this topic resolved. Thread closed.