how relevant is relevancy?

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I see tons of PR6 + blogs (backlink oppurtunities) that ARENT related to my niche but would google put any weight on the link since it isnt relevant to my website?
#relevancy #relevant
  • Profile picture of the author kausarkhan
    Google only give importants the backlinks coming from same niche as yours. It is waste of time getting backlinks from unrelated niche. Few links from the same niche can rank your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author McBrett
      One thing to keep in mind with link building is that you don't need links from the website's with the exact same topic as yours. For example, if you have a site about "Los Angeles Doctors" don't limit yourself to links from other doctors. It would be perfectly natural for a site like this to receive links from websites about Los Angeles and more general, but still on theme would be health blogs or lifestyle websites.

      A lot of people stay too specific and make link building harder than it needs to be. Do some brainstorming and you might realize there are more opportunities within your niche than you originally thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
      Originally Posted by kausarkhan View Post

      Google only give importants the backlinks coming from same niche as yours. It is waste of time getting backlinks from unrelated niche.
      News at 11...Santa Claus exists:rolleyes:

      My experience is 100% contradictory to this. My irrelevant links (with proper anchor text links of course) rank my sites very well.
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    • Profile picture of the author jazbo
      100% untrue.

      I blogged about this a while ago after doing extensive testing for a linkbuilding project that now has over 2000 participants, and I found non-relevant links are just as good as relevant ones.

      Search for "terry kyle" to read a thread on this forum of someone testing linkbuilding relevancy in real time.

      And finally, this is a quote from Rand Fishkin of seomoz just three months ago:

      "To be totally honest, I don't think the content relationship (relevancy) or matching subject matter has much of an impact in the algo right now. Off-topic links, so long as they're from powerful, trustworthy sources, seem to help just as much as those with topical matches. It may seem weird, but I know I'm far from the only SEO to have observed this phenomenon....."


      You are wasting more time by only looking for relevant links I would say.


      Originally Posted by kausarkhan View Post

      Google only give importants the backlinks coming from same niche as yours. It is waste of time getting backlinks from unrelated niche. Few links from the same niche can rank your website.
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      • Profile picture of the author John Tighe
        Here's a link to the Terry Kyle thread:

        60 Day Backlink Experiment

        Conclusion: as jazbo said, links don't have to be from relevant sites to work.

        Quality Sites = Quality Links
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
    Originally Posted by matrix1989 View Post

    I see tons of PR6 + blogs (backlink oppurtunities) that ARENT related to my niche but would google put any weight on the link since it isnt relevant to my website?
    Yes, you will get good link juice from those. Who cares if they are from sites about hamsters or soccer...google doesn't.
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