link from DP - will it hurt your site?

[James_]

Hey all,

I was wondering if it would hurt a site's ranking by having a link on this forum to a site that is totally irrelevant? For example if I want to get people to review my site (that is related to home furnishing), is it a good idea to have a clickable link in the post?

cheers!!!

[pocketmoney]

No, its actually a pretty good way to get your site indexed since DP is constantly visited by the search engines due to a constant stream of content.

[jasonb25]

James DP is a great place to have your links. Google will index your site very quickly and you may also get some unique visitors.

Jason

[kingwallace]

From my knowledge, it can only help.

[harleydavidsons]

Here it is good BL
My Think+++

[Jim4767]

It can't hurt. Think about it. If a link from XYZ page could hurt your website in Google's rankings, then your competitors could buy a bunch of links from XYZ page to your website, and by doing so damage your site without your permission.

[James_]

Thank you all for your replies! :D Looks like the jury is unanimous on this one. It's just I keep hearing this that if your back-links aren't relevant it could hurt your ranking. I guess that is exaggerated.

cheers mates!

[sheds]

No, its actually a pretty good back link!

[Bohol]

It can't hurt. Think about it. If a link from XYZ page could hurt your website in Google's rankings, then your competitors could buy a bunch of links from XYZ page to your website, and by doing so damage your site without your permission.

It makes a lot of sense. Thank you Brother Jim. God bless you!

[tonyran]

bonus for you, some threads on DP actually has PR, so if you happen to join in those, your backlink will worth....somethin

[Anghus]

Your site will never get hurt from incoming links. Whether from DP or other site.

[theworldwinner]

it surely helps in indexing ur sites

[tata668]

I would't link my sites from DP or any SEO related site.

[Jim4767]

I would't link my sites from DP or any SEO related site.

I'm curious, why not?

[tata668]

I'm curious, why not?
Because Google knows what a website is about right? If it finds a lot of incoming links from SEO sites it may draw some conclusions I do not want it to draw. No one knows exactly its present or future algorithm.

You may say "But if it was the case, then you could do this to your competition!".. Yes, you are correct, I'm one of those who believe googlebowling works.

[Echo@CyberDude]

Its will never hurt. It can only give you some benefits or else NOTHING!
But.. It won't do any damage. Don't worry! :) DigitalPoint is Good For you.

[tonyran]

Your site will never get hurt from incoming links. Whether from DP or other site.

backlinks from bad neighborhood CAN hurt your site. prolly not much, but can nonetheless

even right now your competitor can file DMCA or click bombed you which are also beyond your control....

[penyu]

So it's about the BL quality ? if i'm have game site, then i got backlink from travel site, could the backlink hurt my site ? :D sory i'm nuB in this backlink building :p

[EdJohanson]

No I think that link from DP don't have a value as it could have if your site is from similar niche

[Premium Writer]

Nope, it won't.

[tonyran]

So it's about the BL quality ? if i'm have game site, then i got backlink from travel site, could the backlink hurt my site ? :D sory i'm nuB in this backlink building :p

I was talking about spammy sites which DP obviously is not. Yours is about unrelated sites and not spammy, so in your case the links will NEVER hurt your site

[Phynder]

I agree and only link to my competitors, as Google will think that those are purchased links and exclude them from the index. In fact, I encourage others to use this same strategy by linking to my website with irrelevant links so as to get me kicked out of Google's index.

;)


You may say "But if it was the case, then you could do this to your competition!".. Yes, you are correct, I'm one of those who believe googlebowling works.

[Aquarezz]

DP is mostly one of the first places I post my sites...
It even has pagerank 7 so... :D

[dell1420]

It won't hurt you, but related links have more weight

[phalgun]

It will not affect your site's ranking.

[tonyran]

I agree and only link to my competitors, as Google will think that those are purchased links and exclude them from the index. In fact, I encourage others to use this same strategy by linking to my website with irrelevant links so as to get me kicked out of Google's index.

;)

Well if your site is one of those spammy site thats been designated by google as "bad neighborhood" sure, you can hurt your competitor. Or you can short cut that by filling a DMCA complain against them, or even better by click bombed their ads.

Since when does google stop doing anything simply because it could hurt competitor?..

[penyu]

Thanks for your explanation tonyran, i'm very confuse about this link building, some peoples said that unrelated backlink can hurt my site :D , hmmm your location at cinere is that around jakpus ? sorry if i'm wrong :D

[Breakaway11]

Because Google knows what a website is about right? If it finds a lot of incoming links from SEO sites it may draw some conclusions I do not want it to draw. No one knows exactly its present or future algorithm.

You may say "But if it was the case, then you could do this to your competition!".. Yes, you are correct, I'm one of those who believe googlebowling works.

Well, my website is about SEO..... so I actually do want Google to see my links on a bunch of seo pages, because those relevant links are better than just other random links.

[tmontana]

i have built up several backlinks from DP already

[tonyran]

hmmm your location at cinere is that around jakpus ? sorry if i'm wrong :D

thats true my friend...

[roynston]

Dp is been the best for my websites to get indexed as fast as possible. Thanx so much to Dp.

[UTOPIA]

It doesn't matter too much that the forum is not relevant to your site, it certainly won't have a negative effect on your site.

[matrixsoftwarez]

i dont agree on this point, since its a webmaster forum, everyone can promote his site through sig. link or anything.

[rockyourweb]

It can't hurt. Think about it. If a link from XYZ page could hurt your website in Google's rankings, then your competitors could buy a bunch of links from XYZ page to your website, and by doing so damage your site without your permission.

I like your reason. So if someone submitted to free submission site, that's mean not hurt his site but can take less effective for SEO. Am I right?

[fletd09]

I found DP abit annoying to advertise because it was only the post that got indexed and my actual website still wasn't listed.

[komrad]

You all guys have the same answer as mine. Absolutely, it won't hurt any site by placing links on dp forum. I didn't said it could raise your SERP ranking though.

[idigtravel]

All very good information to know, thanks for the input.

[design2host]

No incoming links to your site is Bad. It doesnt really matter where it comes from. and to Talk of DP. Anyone would tell you that its a great idea to get links from DP. Its a great site. Its not porn or Anything anywhere near illegal. This is a genuine site and of course a link from DP is BONUS

[everettekeane]

I think it's okay.

[Cruelio.com]

Why does google ban people then?

[zerk]

Why does google ban people then?

Cloaking, scraping content, things like that ;)

[rockyourweb]

Cloaking, scraping content, things like that ;)

More reason, somepeople bought many link, google will banned that site.

[Gallito]

Won't have very much link value but it will help, and definitely will not hurt.

[Vic_mackey]

It'll hurt when a competitor does a backlink analysis, and ties your website to your DP name. Then go through your itraders and buy all the backlinks that you've bought. Not to mention giving them an insight into all your blackhat methods you've been using/posting about :D

[greyghost]

It wont hurt, it will in fact help your site.

[vjlenin]

Guys, DP links are all nofollow. They may not look nofollow on the page, but they are. There is probably an internal robots txt file that disables all links. Otherwise, it is gonna affect Dp worsely. So, I don't believe any link would hold any weight whatever. Also, I didn't see any of these links showing up in my Google link search for my blog. So, no use with it. No issues having thousand links from here.

[Cyberpunked]

I think you'' find google will consider your whole link profile instead of just every link individually. If all, or the majority of your links come from topically unrelated websites then you may be penalized, otherwise it should be fine.

[jamuna]

helps in indexing ur sites

[rgordon83]

ons of my links come from this site and i have great results...

[theblogger]

It can't hurt. Think about it. If a link from XYZ page could hurt your website in Google's rankings, then your competitors could buy a bunch of links from XYZ page to your website, and by doing so damage your site without your permission.

Great point Jim

[nosleepno]

Guys, DP links are all nofollow. They may not look nofollow on the page, but they are. There is probably an internal robots txt file that disables all links. Otherwise, it is gonna affect Dp worsely. So, I don't believe any link would hold any weight whatever. Also, I didn't see any of these links showing up in my Google link search for my blog. So, no use with it. No issues having thousand links from here.

dp links aren't nofollow, i don't know where you are getting that info from. i also see them showing in webmaster tools, and yahoo site explorer.

[James_]

you said it! in fact, I always try to follow my competitors' foot steps online. I personally never use any reference to my best sites on this forum, at least not in a public way.


It'll hurt when a competitor does a backlink analysis, and ties your website to your DP name. Then go through your itraders and buy all the backlinks that you've bought. Not to mention giving them an insight into all your blackhat methods you've been using/posting about :D