Low Quality Links

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Hi,

It seems the general feeling is to concentrate on high quality/PR links. Does that mean not bother much at all with the lower quality links?

It would obviously mean that you are unlikely to have 1000's of backlinks as for many keywords, especially low competition ones, a few high quality links would most likely be enough to get you to rank well.

So what do you do, get the high quality backlinks and then create a load of low quality ones or just have the high quality ones and leave it at that?

Thanks,
Dan
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  • high PR links do the real muscle work for you in terms of moving your site to the first page of google...all other link sources help your sites links profile look more natural and deoptimize your main keyword anchor text...
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    • rjames said it.


      But everyone is so concerned with ONLY "high quality PR" links, and who'd getting them? If your site isn't being linked to from the New York Times or Harvard, then you probably don't have true "high quality links" according to most people.


      Like rjames said though, a mix is what you want. If Google or YouTube ONLY had high quality links, they wouldn't have millions of links...they would have thousands, so...
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    • Hi,

      I completely understand the need for the high quality links. My question was more along the lines of are the high quality links enough, ie if a site ranks fine with 10 good pr3 links, can you just leave it at that or do you still need the low quality/low pr links for a more natural looking link profile.
  • High PR links are not necessarily high quality links. High quality links come from relevant sites with high traffic and strong social signals. 10 links from quality PR3 links work better than one PR 6 link.
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    • exactly...lots of moving parts to this...too much to explain in a forum post...lol
  • I honestly do not trust cheap backlinks from places like fiverr, I honestly would rather personally setting up backlinks myself to be sure that they come to my website.
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    • second that...im not a fan of fiverr links...if you want to pay for links you would be better served to invest in a tool like SEnuke
    • This.

      Basically, avoid most anything that is automated.
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    • Definitely no Fiverr gigs because they are spammy crap. But having some backlinks that don't have PR, that are quality and not spammy is a good thing to go along with your overall profile which includes links from pages with PR.
  • Concentrate on only high quality links, it would help a lot, don't concentrate on getting low quality links, if you built some unknowingly then no problem.
  • You need to focus only on getting high quality backlinks from different authority domain like those with good amount of PR will give your site trust and authority. Don’t put the eggs in one basket. Diversify and keep building to maintain the link velocity.
  • It is good to have a mix of low PR links and high PR links. The definition of quality is a bit uncertain when it comes to SEO because some people view quality differently. Getting a blog comment link on a high PR page is a better link than a contextual link from a low PR brand new website. However, most people would believe that the contextual link is a better link. To Google, the blog comment link has more value because of the high PR page. The main goal should be to get links from a variety of different IPs with some that are on high PR pages and some that are on low PR pages.
  • Hi Dannyl,

    In this situation I like to think WWGD, "What would Google Do"

    Google never intended for backlinks to be built with the thought of where is this backlink going to give me the most link juice. Don't over think this, build it as if you yourself were a visitor to your site. If you found your site helpful where would you share the link? Probably socially, probably on a forum within the same niche but you wouldn't be worried about PR.

    When in doubt think naturally
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    Low Quality Links

    Hi, It seems the general feeling is to concentrate on high quality/PR links. Does that mean not bother much at all with the lower quality links?