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Number of backlinks vs Quality high PR links..which one to go for?

by Scorpion2
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I have few questions about backlinks...


I am trying to figure out what is better to go for high number of low quality backlinks pretty much PR (NA-1) but you get like 20-30 of them for one page or one PR 7-8 backlink of a well written article linking to your site. Which one will help your SEO more.


Also if i have a PR7 backlink linking to one of my pages does that improve my whole site SEO or does it only improve that one page that the backlink is linking to?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    A legit followed PR7 is better, but difficult to get.

    A new webpage will be a PRn/a - PR0.

    Public PR hasn't been updated in a year but you can still look at the backlink profile of the [exact] page/URL that will include your own backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    When you say a PR7-8 backlinks from an article are you referring to the actual webpage where the link is or the sites home page?

    PR isn't sitewide it's page based hence why it's called PageRank and not SiteRank.

    If the actual page you get the link is from is PR7 and it doesn't have a massive amount of other links (that's all links, internal and external) it will best any PR0 link by a mile in terms of passed link benefit.

    If the PR7 article link is on a domain with a PR7 home page, but the actual article is PR0 it's got no more value PR wise than adding a link from a new webpage on a new domain.

    Warrior forum has a PR4 home page, if the links on this page passed PR (they don't, they are nofollow), you aren't getting the value of a PR4 link, it's a PR0 link unless in the future a lot of links are added to this page and you see this pages PR is listed as PR4. Most likely this page will always be PR0 because no one will link to it and the internal links will pass so little value a few months from now it's going to stay PR0.

    Note: PR not updated publicly for almost a year, Google has indicated it won't update again, time to move on from using PR as a way to value links.

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    • Profile picture of the author Scorpion2
      Thank you guys for quick response! i guess i was totally wrong about this.


      I was thinking that if a site is a PR7 site then a link from either of its pages would mean alot for my website.


      So now that i understand about PR ...what about the Page Authority or Domain authority.

      If my site is getting linked from a good DA website 83 is that better then some no name website??? Same with Page authority if its 53 and my site is getting linked from there is that much better then getting backlinks from a website new site or no name site.
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
        Originally Posted by Scorpion2 View Post

        Thank you guys for quick response! i guess i was totally wrong about this.


        I was thinking that if a site is a PR7 site then a link from either of its pages would mean alot for my website.


        So now that i understand about PR ...what about the Page Authority or Domain authority.

        If my site is getting linked from a good DA website 83 is that better then some no name website??? Same with Page authority if its 53 and my site is getting linked from there is that much better then getting backlinks from a website new site or no name site.
        Don't read too much into measures like DA, Google doesn't use them.

        If you want to know if a link is likely to pass decent SEO benefit check what the page you are gaining a link from is ranked for.

        Do you think Google would pass equal SEO value from a PR3 page ranked no where for a SERP and a similar PR3 page ranked number 1 for a SERP?

        Replace PR3 with any metric you want to compare.

        Look at the webpage and the domain the link is from, the best links are from sites that are trusted by Google or what many call authority sites. If Google trusts a domain it trusts what that domain links to as a high quality webpage otherwise an authority/trusted site wouldn't be linking to it.

        If a trusted site links out to bad sites (sells links and gets caught for example), it looses trust and looses it's authority.

        So look for links from sites that are doing well in Google, basically if it doesn't have Google SERPs it won't pass decent SEO benefit to your site. Pretty easy to check if a webpage is ranking, search for it's title tag, search for long tail SERPs targeted in the content, if it doesn't rank it's not going to pass much value to you via links.

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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Scorpion2 View Post

        Thank you guys for quick response! i guess i was totally wrong about this.


        I was thinking that if a site is a PR7 site then a link from either of its pages would mean alot for my website.


        So now that i understand about PR ...what about the Page Authority or Domain authority.

        If my site is getting linked from a good DA website 83 is that better then some no name website??? Same with Page authority if its 53 and my site is getting linked from there is that much better then getting backlinks from a website new site or no name site.
        There's a few unscrupulous link sellers that haunt this forum (and others) selling the idea that a Home page link means all links on the same domain have the same PR, which is the worlds worst sales pitch considering PR stands for Page Rank, not domain rank (no such thing).

        Anytime you see someone promoting that idea (Home page PR for all pages) run the other way, ignore everything they have to say because they're either BSing or just don't understand. I'm not sure which one is worse when selling a product.

        Bottom line, each individual webpage has it's own PR.

        I'm sure someone will chime in that PR isn't updated anymore, which doesn't matter because we have 15 years of knowing Google is using authority links to increases PR so the principle still stands. Authority link profiles create individual strong webpages.

        Personally I don't mess with the latest fad homemade metrics, the link profile per page tells the whole story.
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