by dannyl
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Hi,

It seems the general feeling is to concentrate on high quality/PR links. Does that mean not bother much at all with the lower quality links?

It would obviously mean that you are unlikely to have 1000's of backlinks as for many keywords, especially low competition ones, a few high quality links would most likely be enough to get you to rank well.

So what do you do, get the high quality backlinks and then create a load of low quality ones or just have the high quality ones and leave it at that?

Thanks,
Dan
#links #low #quality
  • Profile picture of the author rjames
    high PR links do the real muscle work for you in terms of moving your site to the first page of google...all other link sources help your sites links profile look more natural and deoptimize your main keyword anchor text...
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    • Profile picture of the author wally247
      rjames said it.


      But everyone is so concerned with ONLY "high quality PR" links, and who'd getting them? If your site isn't being linked to from the New York Times or Harvard, then you probably don't have true "high quality links" according to most people.


      Like rjames said though, a mix is what you want. If Google or YouTube ONLY had high quality links, they wouldn't have millions of links...they would have thousands, so...
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  • Profile picture of the author webrankingservices2000
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    • Profile picture of the author dannyl
      Originally Posted by webrankingservices2000 View Post

      It is very simple, 1 high quality PR5-PR8 links = 1000s of low Quality links
      If you are competing with others, you need to ensure that your life is easy.
      Why get penalized later. If you need professional help, pm me
      Hi,

      I completely understand the need for the high quality links. My question was more along the lines of are the high quality links enough, ie if a site ranks fine with 10 good pr3 links, can you just leave it at that or do you still need the low quality/low pr links for a more natural looking link profile.
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  • Profile picture of the author dejaone
    High PR links are not necessarily high quality links. High quality links come from relevant sites with high traffic and strong social signals. 10 links from quality PR3 links work better than one PR 6 link.
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    • Profile picture of the author rjames
      Originally Posted by dejaone View Post

      High PR links are not necessarily high quality links. High quality links come from relevant sites with high traffic and strong social signals. 10 links from quality PR3 links work better than one PR 6 link.
      exactly...lots of moving parts to this...too much to explain in a forum post...lol
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  • Profile picture of the author betterwtveter
    I honestly do not trust cheap backlinks from places like fiverr, I honestly would rather personally setting up backlinks myself to be sure that they come to my website.
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    • Profile picture of the author rjames
      Originally Posted by betterwtveter View Post

      I honestly do not trust cheap backlinks from places like fiverr, I honestly would rather personally setting up backlinks myself to be sure that they come to my website.
      second that...im not a fan of fiverr links...if you want to pay for links you would be better served to invest in a tool like SEnuke
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by betterwtveter View Post

      I honestly do not trust cheap backlinks from places like fiverr, I honestly would rather personally setting up backlinks myself to be sure that they come to my website.
      This.

      Basically, avoid most anything that is automated.
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      • Profile picture of the author rjames
        Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

        This.

        Basically, avoid most anything that is automated.
        meh...cant agree with this 100%...instead of avoiding automation altogether, you just HAVE to understand how the tool works you are using...this is key...if you know how to leverage technology the right way, the end result is the same and with less headache...
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    • Profile picture of the author micksss
      Originally Posted by betterwtveter View Post

      I honestly do not trust cheap backlinks from places like fiverr, I honestly would rather personally setting up backlinks myself to be sure that they come to my website.
      Definitely no Fiverr gigs because they are spammy crap. But having some backlinks that don't have PR, that are quality and not spammy is a good thing to go along with your overall profile which includes links from pages with PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    Concentrate on only high quality links, it would help a lot, don't concentrate on getting low quality links, if you built some unknowingly then no problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    You need to focus only on getting high quality backlinks from different authority domain like those with good amount of PR will give your site trust and authority. Don’t put the eggs in one basket. Diversify and keep building to maintain the link velocity.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Alves
    It is good to have a mix of low PR links and high PR links. The definition of quality is a bit uncertain when it comes to SEO because some people view quality differently. Getting a blog comment link on a high PR page is a better link than a contextual link from a low PR brand new website. However, most people would believe that the contextual link is a better link. To Google, the blog comment link has more value because of the high PR page. The main goal should be to get links from a variety of different IPs with some that are on high PR pages and some that are on low PR pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author 808glass
    Originally Posted by dannyl View Post

    Hi,

    It seems the general feeling is to concentrate on high quality/PR links. Does that mean not bother much at all with the lower quality links?

    It would obviously mean that you are unlikely to have 1000's of backlinks as for many keywords, especially low competition ones, a few high quality links would most likely be enough to get you to rank well.

    So what do you do, get the high quality backlinks and then create a load of low quality ones or just have the high quality ones and leave it at that?

    Thanks,
    Dan
    Hi Dannyl,

    In this situation I like to think WWGD, "What would Google Do"

    Google never intended for backlinks to be built with the thought of where is this backlink going to give me the most link juice. Don't over think this, build it as if you yourself were a visitor to your site. If you found your site helpful where would you share the link? Probably socially, probably on a forum within the same niche but you wouldn't be worried about PR.

    When in doubt think naturally
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