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Homepage Backlinks - useful or not?

by lmooney1028
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Hi,

been a member here a little while now and wanted to get the general concensus on homepage backlinks from high PR sites. I know they're a good boost to your site (when used in conjunction with other links), but are they worth the effort/money?

I mean, its damn near impossible to find high pr link swaps when you have a low or no PR site. Also, if you attempt to buy the links then google could find out and slap you, or you run the risk of paying for something that isn't as good as it sounds - there are countless sites (and many here on WF) that promise high PR homepage links and yet can only give you a much lower PR site, or worse just give you a blog post on a high PR blog that gets knocked off within days.

Whats eveyones thoughts on this? Anyone know of any decent places to buy Homepage High PR backlinks? Cos so far i can't find any and i'm close to giving up.
#backlinks #high pr backlinks #homepage
  • Profile picture of the author BlackCrystal
    I mainly aim for backlinks to my homepage. It will still benefit your other pages as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author richfit
    You should blend links to your homepage, your internal pages (you should have more than 10 internal pages). You don't want to do anything over and over and over again. That's how you create footprints.

    For example: when linkbuilding link to your homepage like this:
    http://superfastlinkbuilding.com and http://www.superfastlinkbuilding.com

    You see the variation between the www and NO www. That's natural and whatever is natural is what you should do. Think about everything you do when it comes to link building as natural and you'll be good.

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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by lmooney1028 View Post

      wanted to get the general concensus on homepage backlinks from high PR sites.
      Contrary to the general consensus, there's actually no such thing as a "high PR site".

      Websites don't "have page rank". Pages have page rank. What matters (though, these days, even this doesn't matter very much!) is the page rank of the page on which your banklink occurs. Not the page rank of the site's own home page (which is what people are actually referring to, when they mistakenly speak of a "high-PR site").

      If the page rank of the site's own home page helped much, then backlinks from places like Ezine Articles (home page PR6) and Squidoo (home page PR7) would be valuable. Yes, there are people who think they still are, but they're mistaken. Google has made sure of that throughout all its Panda updates of 2011.

      Originally Posted by richfit View Post

      For example: when linkbuilding link to your homepage like this:
      http://superfastlinkbuilding.com and http://www.superfastlinkbuilding.com

      You see the variation between the www and NO www. That's natural and whatever is natural is what you should do. Think about everything you do when it comes to link building as natural and you'll be good.
      This isn't right at all!

      Varying backlinks between the www and the non-www versions of your site is one of the worst things you can possibly do. It's counterproductive. "www" is simply a subdomain.

      The confusion on this straightforward point is quite remarkable, but the beliefs of the Urban Myth School of internet marketing, however misguided and ill-informed they are, are really pervasive!

      For anyone wanting to learn something, rather than repeating misguided nonsense, there's some factual information on this subject in this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author Absolute Logo
    Mooney, for backlinks you should try Warrior Forms ads forum. Many people sell them and whats great is other members buy them and share their thoughts as well! Plus it will beat any price you find from some big company.
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  • Profile picture of the author massivemarketing
    HPBL are usefull when your site is gunning for a competitive keyword and you are on the second page. I do this all the time and it works wonders. Google does not penalize your site due to HPBL's unless your J.C Penny. Instead what you'll find is that Google prefers to deindex HPBL networks and this has been on an increase lately.

    The reason why some networks don't work so well is due to the fact that they have over 100 members (>100 OBL) so the PR is diluted across all links. Another reason is due to a lack of strong links driving the domain. Ideally you want a HPBL that has an OBL of 30-50 and has several authentic high PR links as well as a ton medium PR links.
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  • Profile picture of the author AngelInvestor
    +1 to massive, that is one of the main issues with public networks.
    Links in the blogroll or footer are a little bit too obvious an SEO game, but always worth having a few, especially if you get them from a reasonable source (not overpriced, good OBL figures).
    A small loophole there is getting a backlink through a banner - it's perfectly legitimate, reflects the relationship between the publishing site and the advertised one, can be do-follow and reasonably well placed to get some clicks. If you have any experience with analytics, simply try to get the banner served from your side (actually fair, as you're not taking your publisher's bandwidth). This will allow you to count impressions, as well, besides click-throughs, and have a peak at the sources of traffic the publisher is getting. It might be more expensive, and it turns towards media buying, but well worth the compounded benefit imho.
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    • Profile picture of the author rileyb
      Backlinks are useful but are they worth your time? You can start seeing money overnight if you pick great keywords and write articles pointing to your site.
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