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Relevant Linking Question

by Paul Tovey
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Hello All,

This may be basic for some, but this is a concept I have never quite grasped.

When trying to find relevant links, for example, if I ran a tomato farm website and I type Tomato farm, tomatoes or farm into Google to find a relevant website.

Why on earth would they link to me, regardless of how nice I was to them?
Surely they would be a competitors? How do I build 'relevant' links.
Is there any advantage to them doing so whatsoever? Do I offer to write for them with a link or do I request a link from a specific place?

Additionally, if I had a link request from a fellow relevant website, why would I like to them?
I'm getting pretty tried of reading 'Oh, just build relevant links.' without actually saying how.
#linking #question #relevant
  • Profile picture of the author Moses.W.
    I believe that the other tomato farm websites will never give you backlinks. But there may exist some portals, forums, blogs etc of tomato farming then you can get backlinks from them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Tovey
      Thanks for your response Moses, I just don't get this atall.
      Perhaps I am over complicating it, could some warrior please explain this relevant linking in a bit more depth?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There might be websites about cucumber farms, recipes involving tomatoes, etc. Those would be relevant.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Paul Tovey View Post

    Hello All,

    This may be basic for some, but this is a concept I have never quite grasped.

    When trying to find relevant links, for example, if I ran a tomato farm website and I type Tomato farm, tomatoes or farm into Google to find a relevant website.

    Why on earth would they link to me, regardless of how nice I was to them?
    Surely they would be a competitors? How do I build 'relevant' links.
    Is there any advantage to them doing so whatsoever? Do I offer to write for them with a link or do I request a link from a specific place?

    Additionally, if I had a link request from a fellow relevant website, why would I like to them?
    I'm getting pretty tried of reading 'Oh, just build relevant links.' without actually saying how.
    First thing that comes to mind is farmers markets, drill down to local (links) If needed. I checked one source/site that list 120 farmers markets that are local to my own state. All of those won't have sites but probably half do have sites (links). That's a single local source of relevant links. Repeat...

    If you don't care about local links, then you have way more options for sourcing links.
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  • Profile picture of the author netanel23
    Take a hard look into the SERP results and check backlinks, one shocking detail you'll find for many of the top ranking sites that built links is that they rank well without relevant links.

    Focus on getting good quality links and second on relevancy.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by netanel23 View Post

      Take a hard look into the SERP results and check backlinks, one shocking detail you'll find for many of the top ranking sites that built links is that they rank well without relevant links.

      Focus on getting good quality links and second on relevancy.
      That doesn't even make sense.

      There's nothing quality about a link on an irrelevant page.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by netanel23 View Post

      Take a hard look into the SERP results and check backlinks, one shocking detail you'll find for many of the top ranking sites that built links is that they rank well without relevant links.

      Focus on getting good quality links and second on relevancy.
      Hi netanel23,

      I think you need to take a closer look.

      This is a topic that has been hashed over many times on this forum. Upon closer inspection we always find plenty of relevant links.

      I think part of the reason that folks jump to the conclusion that you have made is because they don't truly understand how search engines work, or specifically how a search engine determines relevance.

      A link does not directly help you rank for anything except what is relevant to that link. There is a way to indirectly capture link juice and channel it through a relevant link to influence ranking. If there is no relevancy there is no direct benefit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesse Kemper
    ^^^ sadly quite true, although relevant and high pr is better, most the time just high quality with good anchor text will suffice.
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