Quality or Quantity? Which Do You Prefer?

Agree with this. Everyone says "quality" but then when they go to open up their wallet they can't help themselves and go with the product that advertises the most links.

Also part of the problem is that it is really hard to "quantify" quality. So often quantity (and sales pitch) is the only thing to differentiate two different competing SEO services.

Funny.. No matter how many times you explain it or tell people, there's always someone out there who can't get over the itch to order 10,000 backlinks on the cheap and risk it. Always ends up in let down though, I wish more people could grasp it.

Thing is that quality articles cost money, so let's say you offer 20 links with 20 articles then the costs are $100,- and that is ONLY for the content. Then the links need to be placed which costs money as well, and preferrable at high PR domains that cost money as well for hosting, investment, renewals, maintaining it.

So 20 unique quality blogposts can easily end up at $200,-

And that is not a price that sells big time cause most people like to buy under a $100,- so so long with your quantity and quality. It just doesn't match.

And then 20 posts is not what people see as volume. Instead they want hundreds of links. Okay I don't have to much to complain but when I stripped about 100-150 normal links and traded it for 6 strong links (as well as other links that still remained though) my sales dropped like 50%. That's what you get for offering quality.

Then there are others with blog networks set up on crappy c-class SEO hosting that spam their sites like crazy and that offer 100 blogposts for under a $100,- and then people think like "Hey, that's one great package" and it ranks as well but it's often only a matter of time before those sites get taken down. I haven't had a single site deindexed out of 250+ sites for over 4 months now and I hear people with blog networks saying that a 5% deindex rate is pretty common. Funny then that that never happens to me lol.

That's how it should be done. Give me rock solid high quality links for Teir 1, and less quality for Teir 2, anything beyond that can be low quality links. Works wonders..

Man that's sad.... Makes me wonder about people, but guess you have to get passed all of that.

I actually had that in mind (offering a decent number of quality articles), but don't want to offer people a bunch of crappy links built with software.

I think with the Google updates best practice would be to make everything you do look as organic as possible and provide quality content built around the keywords you plan on targeting. Also, sticking to doing submissions manually (or at least mostly).

Plan on doing that as well, definitely have to educate your buyers and get them to understand why what their buying is so beneficial to them.

True, seems people are sold on quantity, but quality is essential to actually get results. You would still have to be mindful not to take on focusing on quantity in the wrong ways and getting sites deindexed. And you mean quality should be given first preference right?

Kind of odd reading this statement and looking at your name. :confused:

Just had to say it. But on another note I'm the same way. Almost always prefer something of quality rather than a bunch of crap with inferior quality.

I think there might also be some different interpretations about quantity/quality.

Some thing high quantity spam only consists of:

10.000 comments
20.000 profile links
5.000 wiki links

While they think that this is safe / quality:

- 100 wiki links
- 200 web2.0's
- 500 bookmarks
- 200 article directories

While in fact it's both spam as there are only like 10 good bookmark / 10 good article directories and 50 or so okay web2.0's but well most use tools for web2.0's so then you still end up with 8*25 crappy web2.0 sites.

Then when you come up with something like:

- 10 pressrelease sites
- 10 article directories
- 25 web2.0's
- 10 bookmarks

People start to think huuu, with that other guy I can get 10 times more of these links for the same price. While they forget they are repeating the same sites over and over or are using pr0 pr1 pr2 sites to reach amounts of 100's of the same type of links.

So guess we still have a long road to go. Lately I purchased 200-250+ web2.0's from someone, purely cause I was curious which web2.0 sites he used, turned out that the majority was ELGG/JCOW which are all nofollow these days so pretty much a waste of money but well I could care less cause I was just curious about it and wasn't even aware that such crappy web2.0 platforms exists.

Same counts for blog networks that people sell for hundreds of dollars, lately there was someone selling 10 high PR domains for $250,-, I won't put any names, I was highly sceptical about it and then it turned out a client of mine bought such network, so I asked him if I could have a look at the url's. He gave me the list and it turned out that half of the domains had a DA (Domain Authority) of around 5 and the other ones didn't have any DA at all so obvious fake. Nice purchase :S, sure you can't expect much for that price of course but still...

Then there are people who sell permanent homepage links with 10 links for like $50,-, they stuff the homepage full with 100 links about all kind of topics, sell it a 100 times, bank a quick few thousand dollars and within a year or less the network is deindexed but everyone go's wild on it cause they think they understand what quality is while in fact they have no clue whatsoever. Personally I just sold 1 PR4 permanent link for $50,- yes only one link, but if the site drops in PR then I move the link to another PR4 site of mine, and the chance of deindexing is as good as zero and if that happens I move the link as well, + only 15 outbound links. So yeah what's a better deal? Having 10 PR3 links with 100 OBL that lasts for 6 months and then your money is gone, or have 1 PR4 link with only 15 OBL that is stronger right from the start with a long term guarantee as well. Again a huge difference of quality but you need to know something about SEO to see the difference. Only thing people see is 10 links instead of 1 for the same price so easy choice right.

Last example and then I had them all, 100 blogposts at some network hosted on cheap C-class SEO hosting that stay 1 day on the homepage, or 10 blogposts at strong sites that are each hosted on a different shared hosting plan and where the posts stay on the homepage for 1 month and that for the same price. Do the math yourself, what you think is wiser!

If people would read this post then they know something about quality, but the posts is too long so people only read it half and still get driven by emotions that they rather have more "quality" links lol.