I'm seeing a trend, a lot of SEOers are selling "relevant" links but really what they are doing is creating a "relevant" webpage on a website with information on all kinds of topics. Do you think these links are really "relevant" in google's eyes?
More relevant that a link on a unrelated site and page, so it'll help more than that, but obviously it's less relevant that a content link on a site of the same theme.
Im a great beliver in creating quality original or edited content that looks original You will always get a better ranking with google/search engines from quality content than from the kind of sites you see that are just plastered everywhere with banners, affiliate links etc More and more people and organizations are realizing that what matters is targetted visitors - and people will be more targetted if they come to your site after reading a quality article on a content site, that provides interest and meaning I think you should avoid the "quick fix" idea My own belief is that the search engines are not that good at getting traffic to your site in the first place - well not for the small guy out there competing with another 6m sites I have run a few tests and I get more traffic and higher quality traffic from my email list/ jv lists/ezines, and from articles on other sites than from google/search engines If you're the big guy and can spend loads of money on links then fine you will get a good position, but if you do it more honestly and dont try and "beat the system" by just buying loads of links then nothing in the world can beat a good responsive email list My somewhat uncompromising and controversial view is "forget the search engines concentrate on marketing!!"
I personally don't think one should pay money for such links. It could probably be ok to get a couple of such links for free, but definitely not for money... Firstly, these pages may contain relevant content, but site itself still remains a irrelevant *dustbin* - I mean *the whole site* is irrelevant - and this reduces it's value On the contrary, if such a page points to many good sites on one topic (which is usually not true since they point to newly created/low PR/not of great quality sites) - it can become a good hub, and then it'd be great to have a link from this page But at the same time, as soon as this page starts ranking well for some more or less competitive keyword, it may be reviewed by Google (e.g. manually with the help of Google's raters, or just Google may put some additional filtering algo on it - I don't know for sure) - and then Google may qualify this page a spam - then all your links will not bring value at all... Well, IMO it's better to get links from really existing sites (e.g. via link exchange - though I know a lot of people say that link exchange is dead, but noone has prooved that yet )
If you are talking about relevancy , you must to have 2 factors! An factor that you compare and a factor that it's used for comparing this factor. So a website can be relevant to yours, but irelavant for others sites. Keep in mind "a relavant site is a site that match the same topic/quality with your websites" Thanks