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Backlink value : PR3(non-relevant) vs. PR1(relevant)

by Buyseech
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Hi there,

I would like to hear your thoughts on the "Power" of the backlink in relation to the relevance. I am aiming especialy in the SE rankings section not so much the "lets make a high PR page", cause the latter doesnt play that much of a role in the micro niche/adsense business (at least I dont think it does for my own sites ranking).

So lets say I have a site about carrot soup. Is it better to get 10 PR3 links from clothing related sites or 10 PR1 links from cooking/carrots/recipes related sites? What do you guys think?

Is there any "border-line" of power lets say "Yes 10 PR5 links would be much better even if they are totaly non-related, but PR3 is too low..." <- i made this up, just to try to make a point.

Gladly awaiting your comments.

Sincerely, Buyseech
#backlink #pr1relevant #pr3nonrelevant
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Buyseech,

    Search engines do not pay attention to "site" topics. They are much more granular in their approach to measuring relevancy. They tend to focus exclusively on individual "page" relevancy signals, so neither the topic of your website nor the topic of the website where you are getting your backlinks from play any role in SEO relevancy. For relevancy signals, focus on "page topic" not "site topic", since that is how search engines determine relevancy.

    If you are able to use your keyword in the anchortext of your backlink then you are significantly influencing the relevancy of that page and particularly that backlink. The anchortext value seems to be the heaviest weighted relevancy signal used by Google for influencing the targeted page's relevancy score.

    Having said that, it is important to keep users in mind. Your traffic will tend to be more targeted if you are linking from, not only relevant pages, but pages on websites with topical relevance. This is particularly important for optimizing Ad space revenue.
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    • Profile picture of the author arttse
      Relevance needs to take into account page relevance and site relevance for maximum impact.

      eg An article about cooking on a PR1 cooking blog would be more valuable than an article on cooking on ezine.

      Originally Posted by dburk View Post

      Hi Buyseech,

      Search engines do not pay attention to "site" topics. They are much more granular in their approach to measuring relevancy. They tend to focus exclusively on individual "page" relevancy signals, so neither the topic of your website nor the topic of the website where you are getting your backlinks from play any role in SEO relevancy. For relevancy signals, focus on "page topic" not "site topic", since that is how search engines determine relevancy.

      If you are able to use your keyword in the anchortext of your backlink then you are significantly influencing the relevancy of that page and particularly that backlink. The anchortext value seems to be the heaviest weighted relevancy signal used by Google for influencing the targeted page's relevancy score.

      Having said that, it is important to keep users in mind. Your traffic will tend to be more targeted if you are linking from, not only relevant pages, but pages on websites with topical relevance. This is particularly important for optimizing Ad space revenue.
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      • Profile picture of the author dburk
        Originally Posted by arttse View Post

        Relevance needs to take into account page relevance and site relevance for maximum impact.

        eg An article about cooking on a PR1 cooking blog would be more valuable than an article on cooking on ezine.
        Hi arttse,

        Blogs (or websites) do not have PR. PR is assigned to the individual page, not the "blog" (nor the website).

        In the eyes of search engines there is no such thing as "site relevance", only page relevance and anchortext relevance.
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    In my experience relevance doesn't play much of a role at all. If I depended on only relevant links I wouldn't have gotten very far. Sometimes relevant links are few and far between.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by App Developers View Post

      In my experience relevance doesn't play much of a role at all. If I depended on only relevant links I wouldn't have gotten very far. Sometimes relevant links are few and far between.
      Hi App,

      Apparently you did not read my post above.

      Relevancy is of absolute paramount importance, in my opinion. However, it is not how you view relevancy that matters, it is how search engines view relevancy that matters for SEO. Link juice will not help you rank for your targeted keyword unless it is channeled through a relevant anchortext link. Without relevancy you will not rank.
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    • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
      I don't worry about relevancy at all. Focus on the high PR links. 1 PR3 links is worth about 25 PR 1 links, (working on the 5 x rule of thumb), so focus on this. I spend most of my time going after PR 4 and PR 5 backlinks. You only need a few of these a month to find yourself rocketing up the SERP's.
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  • Profile picture of the author abdul786
    I would recommend you to concentrate on PR and a few other things. Always check the OBL amount. And secondly, the niche of the website where you are getting links is the least important when we talk about SEO.

    Another thing you might want to check is that whether the other site(s) are properly indexed in search engines and have enough content because the quality of site will affect the quality of link you're going to get and all that will affect your SEO in either positive or negative way.

    Cheers,
    Abdul
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  • Profile picture of the author renukoot
    That's something good that you had shared
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  • Profile picture of the author garyseo786
    authority links that is what i would love to go for !

    relevant or non relevant doesn't matter a lot
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