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I was wondering if anyone has ever gave much thought to this: Some SEO pundits claim that it is best to get relevant back links, others say it doesn't matter, some say you will receive a SERP penalty, some say they will count but not as much as far as SERP are concerned.
In addition, to answering that question; has anyone gave it much thought about a blog posting on a non related site, but making the post related to your site, example: you have a furniture website, but you make a post to an education website, although the educational website is primary based on 'education' you surround your post and link with 'furniture content, does the search engines figure it to be related?
Any and all thoughts Welcome Quote: Originally Posted by james0225 Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has ever gave much thought to this: Some SEO pundits claim that it is best to get relevant back links, others say it doesn't matter, some say you will receive a SERP penalty, some say they will count but not as much as far as SERP are concerned.
In addition, to answering that question; has anyone gave it much thought about a blog posting on a non related site, but making the post related to your site, example: you have a furniture website, but you make a post to an education website, although the educational website is primary based on 'education' you surround your post and link with 'furniture content, does the search engines figure it to be related?
Any and all thoughts Welcome Well, this is very debatable and you will get a bunch of opinions on this. My opinion is this: as long as the users that are being drivin to a page are interacting, sharing, commenting, liking etc... Google will give brownie points... I dont believe in a penalty's offsite (linking in) because that would leave room to destroy competitors organic results. This is useless. It will still give you a backlink, but you will receive less weight for an unrelated blogpost (blogpost on unrelated blog!). I recommend that you should use only related blogs. This will also help you get REAL visitors that would be interested in your website too Quote: Originally Posted by patco This is useless. It will still give you a backlink, but you will receive less weight for an unrelated blogpost (blogpost on unrelated blog!). I recommend that you should use only related blogs. This will also help you get REAL visitors that would be interested in your website too Not true at all.
Please back up your post.
If you read the thread you would understand... How can google tell if the site is truly relavent?
They can not tell whats relevant by keywords thats impossible.. Only from user interaction... I say put your link wherever someone can benefit. If your linking a children's book to a law book your audience will not interact... They are both "books", they are relavent because they are both "books" but not to your audience/demographic... Google cant read it and tell you if its relavent, what they can do is follow footsteps of user interaction.
1,000,000 people clicked on the link children's books and nobody linked to, shared, bookmarked it. Google will say not relavent! page 3 for you.
I gave a good example on another thread, if you invent something like a "bulletproof phone case" there is no such thing, not in googles index because I just invented it.
How will they know what is relevant to my invention? I don't think it matters as much. Getting your link out there is important just try to stay away from spammy sites because it's wasted effort. I'm no SEO pundit but I believe the relevancy aspect relates to the fact you will be more likely to get traffic through your links if you are posting on a relevant blog. I suppose you can only speculate as to ranking though. It would make sense that if the keyword you were trying to rank for was on the page you were linking from it may benefit you slightly but who really knows... Spamming. Stick to the relevant sites only. In that way you will get accurate visitors.
I was wondering if anyone has ever gave much thought to this: Some SEO pundits claim that it is best to get relevant back links, others say it doesn't matter, some say you will receive a SERP penalty, some say they will count but not as much as far as SERP are concerned.
In addition, to answering that question; has anyone gave it much thought about a blog posting on a non related site, but making the post related to your site, example: you have a furniture website, but you make a post to an education website, although the educational website is primary based on 'education' you surround your post and link with 'furniture content, does the search engines figure it to be related?
Any and all thoughts Welcome Quote: Originally Posted by james0225 Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has ever gave much thought to this: Some SEO pundits claim that it is best to get relevant back links, others say it doesn't matter, some say you will receive a SERP penalty, some say they will count but not as much as far as SERP are concerned.
In addition, to answering that question; has anyone gave it much thought about a blog posting on a non related site, but making the post related to your site, example: you have a furniture website, but you make a post to an education website, although the educational website is primary based on 'education' you surround your post and link with 'furniture content, does the search engines figure it to be related?
Any and all thoughts Welcome Well, this is very debatable and you will get a bunch of opinions on this. My opinion is this: as long as the users that are being drivin to a page are interacting, sharing, commenting, liking etc... Google will give brownie points... I dont believe in a penalty's offsite (linking in) because that would leave room to destroy competitors organic results. This is useless. It will still give you a backlink, but you will receive less weight for an unrelated blogpost (blogpost on unrelated blog!). I recommend that you should use only related blogs. This will also help you get REAL visitors that would be interested in your website too Quote: Originally Posted by patco This is useless. It will still give you a backlink, but you will receive less weight for an unrelated blogpost (blogpost on unrelated blog!). I recommend that you should use only related blogs. This will also help you get REAL visitors that would be interested in your website too Not true at all.
Please back up your post.
If you read the thread you would understand... How can google tell if the site is truly relavent?
They can not tell whats relevant by keywords thats impossible.. Only from user interaction... I say put your link wherever someone can benefit. If your linking a children's book to a law book your audience will not interact... They are both "books", they are relavent because they are both "books" but not to your audience/demographic... Google cant read it and tell you if its relavent, what they can do is follow footsteps of user interaction.
1,000,000 people clicked on the link children's books and nobody linked to, shared, bookmarked it. Google will say not relavent! page 3 for you.
I gave a good example on another thread, if you invent something like a "bulletproof phone case" there is no such thing, not in googles index because I just invented it.
How will they know what is relevant to my invention? I don't think it matters as much. Getting your link out there is important just try to stay away from spammy sites because it's wasted effort. I'm no SEO pundit but I believe the relevancy aspect relates to the fact you will be more likely to get traffic through your links if you are posting on a relevant blog. I suppose you can only speculate as to ranking though. It would make sense that if the keyword you were trying to rank for was on the page you were linking from it may benefit you slightly but who really knows... Spamming. Stick to the relevant sites only. In that way you will get accurate visitors.