Views vs backlinks?

Wham · 11-16-2009, 05:26 PM

Stupidly I rushed into going for a keyword because it had high search volume and most of the competition was articles and a yahoo answers.

After recently going through each of the websites on page 1 of the competition some of them had backlinks in the hundreds, while others had less then a hundred or close to none. Looking at how many people had viewed them though it was extremely high. For instance number 1 was an ezine with 80ish backlinks but it was viewed almost 500,000 times. Obviously they've been around for a few years so question is, is it pointless to try for it?

I've only built like 50 backlinks so far through angies backlinks and someone elses, and I seemed to have the impression that it was the most importantly thing, but even after looking on page 2 of the competition people had hundreds of backlinks more then some of the websites on page 1.

im so lost.

pointless to keep going? Possible that the backlinks im using are better?

i have the .org domain name of the keyword, whoever has the .com has done nothing with it.

Ebo Etoyep · 11-16-2009, 05:36 PM

In my personal experience, the quality of backlinks matters much more than the quantity of backlinks. If you're using Yahoo! Site Explorer to check out the number of links, you might also want to check out where those links are coming from. Hundreds of "spammy" links will only help boost up a site's rankings until someone with enough good links comes around. Sites like Yahoo! Answers and well-established article directories can be hard to overcome in the SERPs, but it certainly isn't impossible.

Wham · 11-16-2009, 05:40 PM

i noticed that one of the websites i checked with yahoo site explorer, a lot of the links were from their own website?

Ebo Etoyep · 11-16-2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Wham

i noticed that one of the websites i checked with yahoo site explorer, a lot of the links were from their own website?

Yeah. If you change the "Show Inlinks:" setting to "Except from this domain" you'll only see backlinks from other sites.

11-16-2009, 05:26 PM	#1
Wham HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 187 Thanks: 83 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Views vs backlinks? Stupidly I rushed into going for a keyword because it had high search volume and most of the competition was articles and a yahoo answers. After recently going through each of the websites on page 1 of the competition some of them had backlinks in the hundreds, while others had less then a hundred or close to none. Looking at how many people had viewed them though it was extremely high. For instance number 1 was an ezine with 80ish backlinks but it was viewed almost 500,000 times. Obviously they've been around for a few years so question is, is it pointless to try for it? I've only built like 50 backlinks so far through angies backlinks and someone elses, and I seemed to have the impression that it was the most importantly thing, but even after looking on page 2 of the competition people had hundreds of backlinks more then some of the websites on page 1. im so lost. pointless to keep going? Possible that the backlinks im using are better? i have the .org domain name of the keyword, whoever has the .com has done nothing with it.

11-16-2009, 05:36 PM	#2
Ebo Etoyep Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 36 Thanks: 3 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Views vs backlinks? In my personal experience, the quality of backlinks matters much more than the quantity of backlinks. If you're using Yahoo! Site Explorer to check out the number of links, you might also want to check out where those links are coming from. Hundreds of "spammy" links will only help boost up a site's rankings until someone with enough good links comes around. Sites like Yahoo! Answers and well-established article directories can be hard to overcome in the SERPs, but it certainly isn't impossible.

11-16-2009, 05:40 PM	#3
Wham HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 187 Thanks: 83 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Views vs backlinks? i noticed that one of the websites i checked with yahoo site explorer, a lot of the links were from their own website?