Ratio of high PR links vs low quality links

[michaelr7]

Some SEO gurus have said that there should be far more low quality inbound links to a site than high quality links, because that's the way it is in the real world, hence that's how it looks 'natural' to Google.

They say that Google flags and penalizes sites that have unnatural looking linking. For example, if a site has 1,000 backlinks, there should be less than 100 that are PR 5 and above.

Is there any validity to this? How does this jive with purchasing the various high PR packages that are available in this forum?

Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael

[Andy Fletcher]

Hi Michael,

I think you're a little confused between page rank and domain rank. Page rank applies to the page a link is from whereas domain rank applies to the domain a link is from.

The high PR packages that are sold on Warrior and everywhere else are almost always sites with a high PR for the domain's homepage that let you create pages internally, which are 0 PR.

Although they are 0PR pages they still help you rank by passing some link juice to your page due to the high domain rank of the site they are on (that's a little over simplified by will do for this discussion).

So although a "natural" link profile has many more PR0 links than PR1 than PR2 etc this isn't a problem with these links because they are all PR0.

Hope that clears things up for you,

Andy

[michaelr7]

Got you! So basically, all these links in the packages being sold are on PR0 pages.

Thanks!

[Andy Fletcher]

Originally Posted by michaelr7

Got you! So basically, all these links in the packages being sold are on PR0 pages.

Thanks!

Yes. That's correct.

[Glassjaw009]

A lot of new Internet Marketers make the mistake of only targeting High PR dofollow links and all of a sudden, they don't perform as advertised. This is because Google expects that you're going to have a lot more nofollow low PR links than dofollows.

For every dofollow/high PR link you grab, I'd grab 5 to 6 nofollows.

[michaelr7]

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

The high PR packages that are sold on Warrior and everywhere else are almost always sites with a high PR for the domain's homepage that let you create pages internally, which are 0 PR.

Although they are 0PR pages they still help you rank by passing some link juice to your page due to the high domain rank of the site they are on (that's a little over simplified by will do for this discussion).

So although a "natural" link profile has many more PR0 links than PR1 than PR2 etc this isn't a problem with these links because they are all PR0.

Hope that clears things up for you,

Andy

On thinking about this, wouldn't this also touch off a filter at Google?

These pages are PR0, but all the sites that these pages reside on have high domain rank. It's very unnatural to get links ONLY from such high rank sites.

Also, almost all links come from forums. Another potential trigger for a flag going off at Google.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.