What is a backlink worth if it only last a few hours?

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I have a question:

What is a strong backlink (say PR6) worth, if it only last for a few hours after the post is created?

The backlink is not deleted, but pushed down from new content from other webmasters through RSS. Once I write a new post I get a new link to the new post for a few hours.

To me it sounds like a good instant boost, but I guess it will only last for a few days or weeks. What do you guys think?
#search engine optimization #backlink #hours #worth
  • Your backlink really doesn't only last a few hours. Google knows that they exist.
  • As long as the google spiders keep crawling the site and finding your link it will always be there
  • No, the backlink is actually gone. The website show the latest posts from its community and there are only 6 spots available. Once 6 other posts have been created in the network, the link is gone.
  • If the site gets posted to that often, it quickly is going to be on a PR 0 page unless the site has incredibly good internal linking. So what is a PR 0 link worth to you?
  • The link is not on a blog, but in a widget on the websites front page. There is no referance to my blogpost when it moves from the front page.
  • It may help getting your new posts indexed and if so, it's worth about that.
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    • Well, then nevermind. It's even more worthless. It would be ok for indexing stuff, as long as you time it so that it gets crawled before being dropped from the page, but there is no way to guarantee that either.
  • That is kind of what I was afraid of. I thought I might have hit the jackpot here :-)

    My strategy will be to post my last post around midnight so it have all night to be indexed by Google. The website is popular so Google probably spider it every hour if not minute.
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    • We also may be de-valuing the link by only looking at it from an SEO perspective.

      If you get traffic from it and your content can be shared socially, that can be worth more than fast indexing.
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      You'll get a good idea how often Google bot is visiting the Index page by looking at the Google cache date.

      Still, you won't benefit as far as SEO since the link never sticks.
  • 18 clicks and no social activity or sales. Still not bad since this is an automated thing. If I post 2 times a day and the numbers are exactly the same, I will get 1000 new visitors each month!

    The post is also in position 10 at the moment, but the keyword is not very competitive.
  • No benefit atall, as far as i'm aware.
  • Completely useless. Don't even bother with that. It's like someone gives you million dollars and takes it away a few seconds later. Are you a millionaire? No.
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  • Isn't that kind of similar to what buildmyrank and all those other blog networks used to do, but on a smaller scale? Immediately after posting your link would be on the high PR homepage and the searchengine bots would spider it BEFORE it scrolled off of the homepage and lose the high PR (index) link giving a temporary boost, but you'd have to continuously submit posts or it would lose it's effectiveness after a little while.

    It used to work several years ago at ezinearticles, get a premium account and schedule the article to be submitted right before they shut down for a few hours every night, that way the article would stick to the high PR homepage and get spidered. I remember one time seeing a whole bunch of high CPC keywords I was researching on the first page of Google with but a single view.
  • Its worth nothing.
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