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Simple linking question

by nsjaqson
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I have a large site with many products and keywords. I want to focus on about of those keywords.

I plan to buy about 100 PR3-5 links. Would it be best to link them all to the main site with different keyword links? For example:

"Computer Monitors at low prices" links to hxxp://mysite.com
"Monitor Stands for sale" links to hxxp://mysite.com
"Cheap computers for sale" links to hxxp://mysite.com

Or is there a better linking method?
#linking #question #simple
  • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
    Personally I'd use 2 links per spot if you can.

    With one link linking to a deep page of your site, and one link pointing to your home page.

    That way you get the best of both worlds.

    If you don't have that option, then IMO I'd switch it up a little bit. Or at least turn your keyword into longer tail keywords for your anchor text, so it's not just your keyword all by itself and you get some variety in there.

    I believe that "variety" in anchor text backlinks per say has an larger impact than the same 3 words over and over and over.
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  • Profile picture of the author digiwebtools
    I also think that linking to home page only is not the best.
    Optimize each deep page for one keyword is better option.
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    • Profile picture of the author nsjaqson
      Originally Posted by digiwebtools View Post

      I also think that linking to home page only is not the best.
      Optimize each deep page for one keyword is better option.
      For example I sell computer parts. Would it be best to link to a landing page for each category? For monitors should I link to a landing page showcasing different brands of monitors, or create a link that reads "Best prices on monitors" but link it to an individual product?
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
    You can go as deep as you want. But you want to link to pages you want to acheive better serps for.

    If you link to a specific product but don't believe that specific page will rank anywhere, then you're wasting your time.

    But if that product is very well laid out with descriptions and optimized, and you're trying to rank for that "product" with that page, then yes link to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author areaK
    Def do deep linking, but do it strategically. You always want to mix your links up, it's much more natural. What site has 'only' links to it's home page? Not many =)
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    From your home page put links to 4 or 5 of your main inner pages.
    From these inner pages link back to your home page
    From your other pages link back to the 4-5 pages
    Then backlink the buggery out of the other pages.

    It is a simple pyramidal structure

    homepage
    page1 page2 page3 page4

    subpages 1,2,3 link back to page1
    subpages 4,5,6, link back to page2
    subpages 7,8,9,10 link back to page3

    No need to link back to your home page or the 4-5 pages because when google checks your backlink it will simply follow the links all the way back to your homepage (which should be indexed and ranking already)
    Of course these are all intext links, not put in a navigation menu in a sidebar.

    When backlinking I use the 60/30/10 rule

    60% of my backlinks are my keyword phrase
    30% are a derivative of it
    10% is the actual URL
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