Do links from unrelated sites hurt SEO rankings?

by AndrewAdamSmith

Posted: 11 years ago 16 replies

I have heard that there is no point to even get a link from another site unless the content is related so it won't seem spammy to the search engines. Any truth to this?

#hurt #links #rankings #seo #sites #unrelated

SASA Techno 11 years ago

Hi my opinion is mostly work on related category so that is the best point of the website promotion. and no effect for ranking down in SEO.
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andishm

11 years ago

Originally Posted by AndrewAdamSmith

I have heard that there is no point to even get a link from another site unless the content is related so it won't seem spammy to the search engines. Any truth to this?

Yes i agree.

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kjohns 11 years ago

Well in my opinion there may be more than hundred of sites that are not related to our site but we still post on them. Let us suppose i own a web development firm and my website is obviously offers the web developing services and look forward to post on a general category business directory manta or 192. Does it hurt on posting on these sites too as they are not theme based sites? and if not then why people suggest to look forward for the theme based website?
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- Enuke 11 years ago
  
  as far as my experience if say about this matter, if any site link to your website then it makes no difference, it is theme based or not but that site must be good .I may be 40% wrong but not absolutely wrong, so choose that site which is cached frequently and updated timely ,I think that would be no harm
  
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VivekThakur 11 years ago

Back links from unrelated website is counted as spam until they are not reported spam.
But definitely they are not worth-full as they are not from related content/website and not able to create traffic to site. Relevancy is must in SEO, but another truth is that every back links is important.
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whland 11 years ago

Your mileage may vary. But I've had links posted on unrelated sites and it helped it some. It certainly didn't hurt the ranking though.

Chad
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TheContentAuthority 11 years ago

Andrew,

The short answer is that this is not true.

Try to think of inbound linking less in terms of the attributes of single links and more about the overall profile of a site. Also keep in mind that ideally, search engines that use linking as a factor don’t want people to manipulate it at all. That means that even a high quality link between websites would be considered against the rules if built manually even if it provided a lot of value to users.

Google isn’t going to see one unrelated link and count it as spam or discredit the link because is links from an unrelated site. They start targeting sites that are doing these kinds of thing on a massive scale or that follow a pattern of deception of users. You should worry less about the types of links leading to your site and more about making a site that people love.

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Shawn
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- paulgl 11 years ago
  
  Anyone who answers yes, and has a sig link, well, I guess that
  answers the question. In fact, one thing that always intrigues me,
  is why would you want a link from a rock solid related site? Just
  for the heck of it? "Hey, forget this crappy site! Visit mine! I do
  this niche MUCH better!"
  
  Don't relate crappy backlinks with nonrelated backlinks. They are
  not the same. Like, you can't get a crappy backlink from a related
  site? Just a reminder. We are talking about hurting, not what links
  "help" the most.
  
  6 degrees of separation, for relation, can always be implemented
  anyway.
  
  Paul
  
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johnben1444 11 years ago

For optimal result in ranking, you need:

Quality content
Onsite SEO
Quality backlinks
Relevance
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- Mike Anthony 11 years ago
  
  A number of you have lost your mind. If Adobe.com with their PR9 wants to link to any site of mine I am taking it without hesitation.
  
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  abs007 11 years ago
  
  Send yourself 30 high pr links and see what happens.
  
  Your almost always going to see a good boost in SERPS.
  
  Send yourself 30 related links and see what happens.
  
  Your almost always going to see good quality traffic from the sites and a boost in SERPS.
  
  Related links are good but high PR are awesome
  
  Mix up your links so that if your site was to be reviewed by a human then they wouldnt suspect anything.
  
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Hansons 11 years ago

If links are on unrelated sites, but the sites are quality sites then it won't hurt, instead it would help a little.

Take example of forum signature, in this forum, all the sig links are not related to webmasters only.. some webmasters may be webmastering of dating, sites, finance sites etc.. they still use the dating or finance related link in their sig.
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Beyondsearch 11 years ago

It won't hurt you as long as it's not in an extremely large quantity and they aren't low quality.

Having a few unrelated links is fine, having a few unrelated links on high PR pages is amazing.
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johnd09 11 years ago

It will not hurt your rankings. If Google will hurt the ranking of a website based on links from unrelated site, it will open doors for negative seo
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Hrkjds 11 years ago

I am using unrelated back links in two of my sites, and i never face any problems. 1 of them are even at 1st rank. I am making quality back links and that's matter.
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