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Are high PR backlinks still worth if they are on an unrelated site/forum?

by nicolasodc
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Hi,

I run this blog in a particular niche and throughout one of the newsletter I've subscribed to, I received a list of forums and sites with high PR where supposedly posting a link to my blog would help it rank.

Obviously, the forums and sites do not have anything to do with my niche... So my question is: although there are high PR, does it make sense to post my link to these forums that are completely unrelated? Will it help my blog rank? Will it harm my ranking?

I know Google is now really regarding on the quality of backlinks, and if they are actually related or no... I really don't want to harm my site so before posting any link to these sites, I'd like to get your opinion om this.

Regards,
Nicolas.
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  • Profile picture of the author kochtgr
    Well it's much better if you focus on building links on relevant sites, since building links on unrelated sites could not only be useless but it could even harm your site...
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  • Profile picture of the author strategic seo services
    High PR links are very valuable, whether they are relevant or not. Yes, if they are relevant it is better. However, high pr backlinks will not harm your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    If your website is about dog food and you had the chance to get your link on the front page of adobe.com would you turn it down? I sure the hell wouldn't!
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      If your website is about dog food and you had the chance to get your link on the front page of adobe.com would you turn it down? I sure the hell wouldn't!

      That's a lot different than getting a PR1 backlink with keyword anchor-text as low cost auto insurance on some random cooking blog/page.

      Nobody here on Warrior Forum is getting a link on Adobe's Index page.
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      • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        That's a lot different than getting a PR1 backlink with keyword anchor-text as low cost auto insurance on some random cooking blog/page.

        Nobody here on Warrior Forum is getting a link on Adobe's Index page.
        I would still gladly take it so as long as the OBLs are low, the domain has authority and they link to my squidoo.com/cheap-auto-insurance/ page. Hell yeah, that's a good link to bring link juice through my web2.0 campaign onto my money site!

        And if that wasn't an option, I would still take the link to my money site.
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      • Profile picture of the author nicolasodc
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        That's a lot different than getting a PR1 backlink with keyword anchor-text as low cost auto insurance on some random cooking blog/page.

        Nobody here on Warrior Forum is getting a link on Adobe's Index page.
        Hi
        The backlinks have been proposed are PR3 and PR4, but they are on unrelated niches, so... (and i don't have any web 2.0 middle page, it would go straight to my page...)
        Nicolas.
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  • Profile picture of the author Super Money Maker
    I have a video ranked #3 only from high PR blog commenting
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  • Profile picture of the author Sunny M
    If they are from high PR pages and trusted domain it should work.
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  • Profile picture of the author mavtrevor
    Google is focusing on backlinks with more relevance to the subject at hand, you cant own a computer blog and keep receiving all your links from clothing sites and expect it to have same effect as one from another tech blog. The relevance of the links will be your edge in the highly competitive market.
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    • Profile picture of the author tinknocker
      Originally Posted by mavtrevor View Post

      Google is focusing on backlinks with more relevance to the subject at hand, you cant own a computer blog and keep receiving all your links from clothing sites and expect it to have same effect as one from another tech blog. The relevance of the links will be your edge in the highly competitive market.



      I check the PR on expired domains all the time and notice their pagerank is directly related to their backlinks. I also notice that most of the time their backlinks are totally unrelated to the niche but the backlinks still passes juice to the domain.

      For ranking purposes, It doesn't appear that this relevancy theory being circulated all the time is correct.

      But if your trying to get relevant targeted traffic, then it does make sense to have them in the same niche but the OP was talking about "ranking" not targeted traffic.

      Personally I wouldn't over-do it with unrelated links because it would look spammy but in moderation I think it would be fine... IMHO.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Just do a mixture of both and it won't really matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    One of my competitors has links on sewing blogs, tech blogs, medical blogs, legal blogs, financial blogs, recreation blogs... and his position for that keyword is #1. He is getting 30,000 to 60,000 visits per month from being in that #1 spot... and is making TONS of sales!

    His money website has nothing to do with sewing, tech, medical, legal, financial or recreational. The key factor is all these blogs he has links on are AUTHORITY high PR blogs!

    Irrelevant backlinks work like a charm.
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  • Profile picture of the author agapril07
    Yeah this one time I had a chance to get a do-follow contextual link from whitehouse.gov. i passed because i am not in the politics niche....
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    • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
      Originally Posted by agapril07 View Post

      Yeah this one time I had a chance to get a do-follow contextual link from whitehouse.gov. i passed because i am not in the politics niche....
      Wow, that was a very bad decision.
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    • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
      Originally Posted by agapril07 View Post

      Yeah this one time I had a chance to get a do-follow contextual link from whitehouse.gov. i passed because i am not in the politics niche....


      Really? That may not have been the best idea.

      I think that relevance is becoming more important...but authority and trust still rue the day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    Like JSProjects and Tinknocker says.

    My experience is that you can do a mixture of niche related and non niche related backlinks, leaning more towards those in the same niche. So maybe 30% non niche, for example. I think I have a couple sites higher.

    Quality matters too. Google may change down the road, but if you have a mixture it is more likely to hold up in the long run, than if it were all backlinks in non related niches, in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    No.. Backlinks are not worth if they are not coming from a related page. Popularity and other metrics of the page will give you benefit if and only if they are related to the linking page.
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  • Profile picture of the author walkin
    Creating high page rank back links are most important in your site promotion. But back links from relevant high PR sites are the most powerful in search engine optimization process. If your site have more high page rank back links and it will get good ranking position in all search engines automatically.
    So, keep concentrate on your site incoming links and build more high PR back links from relevant sites which will give you quick results for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shout Out Digital
    High PR is valuable of course but so is having highly relevant links and yes right now you would get away with these links (providing these forums allow them) but what happens when Google carries out another update to tighten up on quality links vs spam links. I advise you not to take these kind of shortcuts because yeah you do well in the short term but surely you need to be thinking about the longterm future of your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author Boricua
      Obviously, the forums and sites do not have anything to do with my niche... So my question is: although there are high PR, does it make sense to post my link to these forums that are completely unrelated? Will it help my blog rank? Will it harm my ranking?
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  • Profile picture of the author ird986
    Originally Posted by youeverysecond View Post

    Hi,

    I run this blog in a particular niche and throughout one of the newsletter I've subscribed to, I received a list of forums and sites with high PR where supposedly posting a link to my blog would help it rank.

    Obviously, the forums and sites do not have anything to do with my niche... So my question is: although there are high PR, does it make sense to post my link to these forums that are completely unrelated? Will it help my blog rank? Will it harm my ranking?

    I know Google is now really regarding on the quality of backlinks, and if they are actually related or no... I really don't want to harm my site so before posting any link to these sites, I'd like to get your opinion om this.

    Regards,
    Nicolas.
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  • Profile picture of the author eurekapsycrille
    It will not harm your site. But it will not make any good results when it comes to ranking as well. Though it depends on how you interact with other members of the forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author Noyes
    Of course they are of value. People saying otherwise don't know what they talking about. All this relevance thing is very overrated and people saying it may hurt your rankings is just wrong. I've built many sites with only irrelvant links and have never had any trouble. People got to be able to seperate irrelvant links and bad irrelevant links.

    Usually there are a bit more things that plays a part if a link is valuable or not. Things I usually look at is what links it got. Spammy? Good? Other things may be where I will get the link. Before I remember how a sidebar link could be more tempting than a link in a post but nowadays that has changed for me and I'm trying to mix my link profile. I mean your current backlinks also plays a role.

    Now I'm not saying that tons of irrelevant backlinks are better than relevant links, no. All I mean is that they won't hurt, but may not help as much as a relevant link would.
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