High Quality/Not So Relevant Links vs Low Quality/Highly Relevant Links

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I'm noticing that many of my competitors have low quality backlinks.

Like 98% of their links are prNA or pr0.
However, I'm noticing that most of their links come from relevant .us or .info sites they set up themselves. The sites rank extremely low, but they seem to be using them just for relevant backlinks.

Like 1 of my competitors has at least 1000 of these types of links, then only *2* quality links, which are not relevant at all.

I'm trying to think in terms of how I can get an advantage here.

In my niche, there are NOT a lot of relevant high pr pages I can link to.

So I've been building up my own relevant low quality blogs, just to get some relevant links.

However, I'm still wondering whether it would be useful, to get some not so relevant, high quality links to my site?

Just because my competitors have all low quality links.

It seems they chose this path because there aren't many relevant high quality places they can link to. So they chose to do tons of relevant low quality links instead.

Should I follow what they're doing, and just get a bunch of relevant low quality links? Or would it be worth my time to get some high pr links, even if they're not so relevant.

Like say I'm doing mold remediation, and I find a high pr page for carpet cleaning or flood insurance, is it worth trying to get a link on pages like this?

Its just confusing because for 2 of my top competitors, the quality of their links suck but they are highly relevant. So that makes me assume that relevance is a more important factor for ranking than link quality.

Am I wrong about this or what?

Would really appreciate some feedback.

-Red
#high #links #low #quality or highly #quality or not #relevant
  • Profile picture of the author trytolearnmore
    Hey,

    Let me put it this way: if you are in the weight loss niche, then a link from a CNN article about pandas will, probably, be more useful than a new blog on weight loss.
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  • Profile picture of the author IprovideSEO
    I would continue to keep building relevant backlinks because that will help your site's rankings in the long run.

    Google can obviously tell which links are relevant and which ones are not.

    A great way to build hundreds of relevant backlinks from different websites is submitting a Press Release
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  • Profile picture of the author Austin E Anthony
    Relevant backlinks counts and it's even more powerful when those relevant backlinks are coming from high pr domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author n0tr3v3
    At the end of the day it all comes down to PR for powerful rankings.

    Relevant links are power for long term in my view and they make the links look more natural, resulting in little to no penalties.

    But if you can gets links that are both RELEVANT and of high PR then you're on the right track.
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