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Backlink Question

by dickyrader
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My competition for a particular keyword are mainly sniper sites. My question is, they have anywhere from 200 - 500 backlinks each. But 99% of their backlinks are 0 Page Rank, and the ones that arnt 0 are 1 0r 2, and a lot of them are unrelated sites. If I get a handful of high quiality backlinks, high pr, should I be able to beat them. Or am I going to have to get a high amount of backlinks like them? Thanks for the help.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Sorrell
    Depends on the age of the site, their keyword density, the meta description etc. In terms of the backlinks then it shouldn't be too difficult to beat what they're offering over time. A good mix of video site submission urls, articles, social bookmarking sites and some high pr forum profiles should see you on your way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by dickyrader View Post

    99% of their backlinks are 0 Page Rank, and the ones that arnt 0 are 1 0r 2, and a lot of them are unrelated sites.
    It's the "a lot of them are unrelated sites" that matters.

    The PR (as between 0, 1 and 2) is far less important.

    Originally Posted by dickyrader View Post

    If I get a handful of high quiality backlinks, high pr, should I be able to beat them.
    Yes.

    Depending a bit on what you mean by "handful", I suppose.

    But when you fight quantity with quality, you win, and typically you win pretty quickly, easily and reliably.

    (I realise this isn't what you asked, but there are loads of PR-0 pages outranking PR-1/2 pages in Google's SERP's, by the way, and when you examine their backlinks in detail, they're a very reliable indication that context-relevance is what matters).
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  • Profile picture of the author JBrooks
    very difficult to say. things to think about;

    1. you are only seeing max 70% of the existing backlinks. even the very best backlink programs (SEO Spy Glass) can't see all backlinks. Google Webmaster provides the most comprehensive look but owners tend to keep these details private!

    2. what is the on page SEO like on these sites vs your site? H1 tags, interlinking, content quality.

    3. what type of backlinks are we talking about. Contextual, home page, footer, no follow. google putts different weighting on these.

    4. do you and/or your competitors have your target keyword in the url? Matt Cutts has said they'll be reviewing their weighting of this soon enough but the fact is keyword density in your url does help.

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  • Profile picture of the author JBrooks
    here's the one I was thinking of, just couldn't find it earlier.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWFv43qubI
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  • Profile picture of the author JBrooks
    I'm starting to think Matt HATES Viagra sites!!
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