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What are the best backlinks?

by YseUp
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I know that it's better to have back links from relevant sites.

But does it matter at all if they are from non relevant sites?

Will you get punished by Google for this?
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  • Profile picture of the author CashTactics
    I would rather have 1 backlink from a relevant site than 10 backlinks from non-relevant sites.

    Its not about quantity its about quality. Its all about how google preceives you as an authority in the niche with your niche talking about YOU.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommen
    A good way to get quality backlinks is to visit bloggers in your niche (area of expertise) and place good and relevant comments on their blogs and then link back to your site.No spam, and no drive by comments like "nice blog" or similar.
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  • Profile picture of the author mlongley
    I think if you build many links from sites that are not relevant that it might raise some flags. Especially if you are using some sort of automated script to do this. It also depends on how broad your current site's link portfolio is too. If you have a lot of links from many different sources over a long period of time you can get away with a lot more than a new site.
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  • Profile picture of the author indigo
    Also don't pay much attention to the pagerank of a site you are trying to get a link from.
    No matter if it is pr0 or pr9.
    It's always recommended to get links from high PR sites but PR0 can grow up quickly as well. That will be a good investment.
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    • Profile picture of the author pts123
      Do bookmark backlinks hurt your site ? Assume that it is a new site and you only have bookmark links at this point, would it be better not to have them ?
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    • Profile picture of the author tommen
      Originally Posted by billyboy View Post

      ^^ how does auto diretory submissions help? I hear they are useless now?

      The only auto submission I use is a Wordpress plugin that posts on my Twitter a short tweet every time I update my blog.I concentrate only on the biggest social sites and submit manually useful stuff from other blogs (not my own).
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      • Profile picture of the author happysus
        I am confuse between "nofollow" and backline

        Example please.
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        • Profile picture of the author shakir
          Originally Posted by happysus View Post

          I am confuse between "nofollow" and backline

          Example please.
          Why.. IF any link contains rel=nofollow then no Back links from it.. bcz if this tag found.. Google ignore to index the link
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankLinks
    Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

    I know that it's better to have back links from relevant sites.

    But does it matter at all if they are from non relevant sites?

    Will you get punished by Google for this?
    The best backlinks is from your niche's authorties web site.but if you can't them,I personal recommend high PR sites,I don't think you will be punished by google from non relevant site's backlinks,I get lots of backlinks from non relevant sites,now I have one PR3 site with some keywords page 1 google position.
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  • Profile picture of the author poolwoker
    if you links approval in high PR in particular page that you got more benefit ..
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  • Profile picture of the author basmin
    How do I know if the blog is dofollow?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Lam
    According to Matt Cutts, "a link is a link". That gives me enough reason to believe that it doesn't matter if the link is relevant or not. Of course, it's all just talk until proven otherwise. Personally, I go for relevant links anyway, just to be safe, but I haven't tested to see the effects of going for just ANY link. Perhaps I will try getting ONLY non-relevant links and see how it does. I'll wait on the next domain I work on though.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      What are your thoughts on this Cutt's comment as it pertains to the PR of page that the backlink is on?

      Where might one find this Matt Cutts gem


      Originally Posted by Kevin Lam View Post

      According to Matt Cutts, "a link is a link". That gives me enough reason to believe that it doesn't matter if the link is relevant or not. Of course, it's all just talk until proven otherwise. Personally, I go for relevant links anyway, just to be safe, but I haven't tested to see the effects of going for just ANY link. Perhaps I will try getting ONLY non-relevant links and see how it does. I'll wait on the next domain I work on though.
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  • Profile picture of the author yonaswedo
    When you have a high quality contents, you'll get a meaning of backlinks naturally.
    Anyhow, we can build backlink artificially with any way from bookmarking submission into inject comments in many blog. As Angela V. Edwards teaching is other effort to create the backlink farm. I don't care it has nofollow or dofollow even as relevant or not.

    I worked not just for search engine but for human people too. IMHO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Lam
    Straight from the horse's mouth:

    Matt Cutts: Typically, our policy is: a link is a link, is a link; wherever that link's worth is, that is the worth that we give it. Some people ask about links from DMOZ, links from .edu or links from .gov, and they say: "Isn't there some sort of boost? Isn't a link better if it comes from a .edu?" The short answer is: no, it is not. It is just .edu links tend to have higher PageRank, because more people link to .edu's or .gov's.

    To the best of my knowledge, I do not think we have anything that says social bookmark links are given less weight. Certainly, some sites like del.icio.us and other people, may choose to put individual "nofollows" in and they may choose to take actions to try to prevent spam, but we do not typically say anything like: social bookmarking by itself - give less weight.
    Interview with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon

    Though he said people try to prevent spam with "nofollows", keep in mind that only Google adheres to this policy. As far as I know right now, Yahoo has not adopted that policy, so when Yahoo indexes the link, it gets passed on to other search engines and eventually leaks back to Google as a *do* follow link.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlbertF
    Backlinks from authority sites with a large link profile only if you got a some month/year old domain. If you new, the best ones you should get are the lowbies in my opinion because Google will most likely be suspicious if a 1 week year old domain got a PR 7 backlink from the PR 7's homepage.
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  • Profile picture of the author willzoboy
    I think the older a website is the less likely you are to get penalized for non relevant links.

    I don't think directory links are now useless but it is possible that they carry less weight these days. However, if you get enough of them they will still give you some link weight and help you to rank for the specific anchor texts you have used.
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  • Profile picture of the author freelistfool
    I know that it's better to have back links from relevant sites.
    But does it matter at all if they are from non relevant sites?
    Will you get punished by Google for this?
    You need to have a balanced link profile. If all of your links are from non related sites you'll have a hard time rising in the SERPs. Just a few good quality related links will do you a lot more good than hundreds of non related links.
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