What are tier 1 backlinks?

To my understanding, tier-1 links are pointed directly at your money page (your website/url). Tier-2 backlinks would be pointed at the tier-1 url, and tier-3 backlinks pointed at your tier-2 urls.

And so on.

Hope this help

Tier 1 links - high quality backlinks pointing to your money page / main page
And as camay123 said, it is supported by tier 2-3 links to give weight.

Ok, Thanks.

Tier 1, Tier 3 backlinks imo is a dope tactic thought up by someone trying to be clever. In most cases your tier backlinks are worthless anyway. If you want a real strong link, find a relevant website and approach them.

Google's algorithm is all about ranking sites that are "naturally" popular. That means that, although you can sum up how to rank your site in Google in four words ("Get lots of links"), you need to make sure that your site's link structure is as "natural" as possible (in Google's eyes, anyway).
To do this, you want to construct what I call a "link pyramid" for your site. This pyramid is a 3-level structure of links: 1) your base links, 2) your mid-range links and 3) your highest quality links.
Now, before going into detail about the pyramid, let me outline what Google looks for in every link you have to your site. The more of these qualities each link possesses, the higher value Google places on it when ranking your site.

1. Geographic Diversity. If all of your links come from web sites whose servers are all in Podunk, Texas, Google is going to see that as being very suspicious. It's easy to know the relative geographic location of any web site, and Google incorporates that data into their algorithm. So you want to get links from web sites that reside all over the web if at all possible.
2. Link Text Variety. If every single link to your web site all has the exact same link text, Google will devalue your links and not rank your site. In case you're not sure what I mean by "link text", that's the (typically) blue, underlined words in a link (e.g. my blog has the link text "my blog").
3. Steady growth. If your brand new site goes from having zero links aimed at it to having two thousand links the next week, Google is not going to rank your site very well. Your site will often rank well for a few days, but it will then fall out of the rankings. That's because Google will see your sudden link surge as a brief moment of popularity, but once that popularity passes, so will your rankings. You want to grow your links slow and steady, increasing the rate of growth as your site establishes a broader link base.

Okay, so now you know what attributes each link aimed at your site needs to have. Now let's talk about each of the three levels of your site's link pyramid.
Base Links
The foundation of your link pyramid are your base links. As with an actual pyramid, the foundation is the largest part of this virtual structure. You need more base links than any other kind of link.
Base links are, for lack of better words, lower quality links. Links from things like lesser article sites, social bookmarking sites, blog comments, links from deep inner pages, etc.
It's important that you have a lot of these kinds of links, because Google's algorithm thinks that this is "natural." After all, how likely is it that a web site will have a bunch of super-high-quality links from major web sites and not have magnitudes more links from "lesser" sites? So you want to make sure your link pyramid has a solid foundation of these kinds of links.
Mid-Grade Links
The next level of our link pyramid are your mid-grade links. These are links from web sites that have more authority than the sites mentioned previously, but still may not be top-notch sites. The kind of sites that usually reuse EzineArticles content often fall into this category, as do links from mini-sites and sales letter sites.
Mid-grade sites have a fair amount of links aimed at them in their own right, and so Google sees links coming from them as being more individually valuable than the base links. Of course, that means that you don't need as many links from these kinds of sites as you do from the base link sites.
Nor should you have more links from these kinds of sites than the base link sites. Remember, it's all about looking "natural" in Google's eyes.
Highest-Quality Links
For most long-tail keywords (keywords with less competition in the search engines), you don't even need the top level in your link pyramid. You can usually rank just fine with the base links and mid-grade links. I have numerous sites ranking quite well for many nice keywords without any top-quality links.
However, when you're aiming higher, you need to collect higher quality links. By "higher quality", I mean links from sites that already have a lot of links aimed at them. In Google's eyes, site with a lot of links aimed at them have "authority", and anyone these "authority sites" link to must also be important.
The great thing about links from authority sites is that a few links can make a big difference. So while these links are more difficult to acquire, you don't need nearly as many of them to rank well for your keywords. I've brought sites from page two for my keywords in Google to page one with just a dozen or two links of this kind (and I'm talking about some fairly competitive keywords).
Just For Emphasis
Again, because I can't emphasize this enough, it's important that your link pyramid look natural to Google. That means having a large number of base links, a lesser number of mid-grade links, and a few top-quality links.
Of course, some of your links will blur the lines between the levels of your link pyramid. Perhaps they're not quite "base links", but not really reaching the point of being considered "mid-grade", etc. That's okay. That's "natural", too, and will only help you in your ranking efforts.
The best rankings I achieve I achieve by gathering all three kinds of links at the same time. Of course, I get more base links than I'm getting mid-grade links, and just a few top-quality links at a time. This is the "natural" growth pattern of a popular site, and it's what Google likes to see.
My Personal Link Pyramid System
I've achieved top rankings in markets ranging from patio furniture to music downloads to local real estate listings and more. I accomplish this by taking advantage of my link networks:

1. 1WayLinks.net - I use this network to create the foundation of solid base links that give my sites sure footing in Google's rankings.
2. 3WayLinks.net - To get a smaller set of about 250 mid-grade links, I always put my sites into the 3WayLinks network.
3. MyWayLinks.net - When 1WL plus 3WL isn't enough to break my site onto page one of Google, then I use my not-so-secret weapon: MyWayLinks. Google loves the links from this network, and I've used it to push my sites into top rankings for more difficult keywords.

You see, I designed all three of those link networks. That means that all of the links coming from them are the kind of links Google is looking for. They all have the geographic diversity, link text diversity and steady growth rates that launch sites to top rankings as quickly as possible (without rising too fast only to fall back down again).
Right now I'm offering a trial rate of only $7 a month for the first month of each of the three link networks. That means you could sign up to all three for only $21 for your first month. See if those networks work for you as well as they're working for me and thousands of other web sites.
Remember, though, a little patience is in order here: it usually takes two to three months for a brand-new site to see real traction in Google's rankings. However, if your site already has some links established, you'll often see results faster than that.



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Pyramid Linkers - Best damn answer ever....Quick question; is it necessary to have different types of anchor text for tier links?

And is this bad? I signed up to angela and pauls backlinks and pointed the profile links directly to my money site.

Great post Pyramid Linkers!!

1 question. Do you link all layers directly to your money site or do you link layer 3 to layer 2. Layer 2 to layer 1 and then layer 1 to your money site?