EGOL from SEOChat asked me to blog on the subject of the "most valuable link". The MVL award is something I think I'll blog on monthly and perhaps give a prize at the end of the year.

The first thing I had to do was consider criteria:

• Authority site
• Tons of traffic
• Lots of visibility in a web active community (so you get more links after folks see it)
• Lots of click-throughs to linked content
• Multi-theme website so it doesn't skew your "on-topic" relevance
• Uses descriptive anchor text and descriptive surrounding text
• Credible and respected source
• High PR (just for kicks)
• Tons of inbound links
• A whole section of content about just your link

This narrowed down the choices somewhat, but an obvious candidate was... Slashdot, and thus they receive this month's MVL award. Congratulations /. - you're kickin' it old school and making people wealthy every day, just by linking.