Are they the most important thing to achieving good traffic? I have tried many things and cant see the wood for the trees
backlinks with anchor text wil help you get ranked well for your term which in turn will bring the traffic.
Yes, quality backlinks (and lots of them) are the most important factor in SEO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text
Backlinks mean a lot for your site. Backlinks from garbage sites will hurt your site and backlinks from sites with good PR will help your site a lot.
I'll tell you how powerful one good backlink can be. I was doing some research for the Florida Used Car Industry. Every now and then a tiny dealer in Florida kept popping up. I did a little digging and found they had only 11 back links, and one was a PR 5 EDU link. Well, this is the definition of blackhat: http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/lcb/rev/mt.html Somehow they managed to sneak a link in there (probably a Boston College Student) with the anchor text "used cars". Not only is that alone giving them traffic, it also gave them a PR 5! Their link is the only external link on that page! I wonder how much the college kid sold the link for? And I wonder how many more are hidden in Boston College's Website?
Okay just a link will do some good as long as it is on a decent site, by decent I mean, not banned by google or anything like that. Your anchor text should include three of your top keywords flowing smoothly. If you can and its possible sometimes costly or if your a student or government employee, the best links are gov and edu links bar none, if you can not do not worry, get comment kahuna to start with and find all sites that pertain to your ninche with a pr3 or higher, now go post your comments in the blogs, make sure you read the posts and just do not post, I agree otherwise they will delete it. If you can get some high pr sites to link too then you have the battle won if you can get one or two edu gov links that stick you are way ahead of the pack. you said what is a link and a link with anchor text. dont like writing that much so go here and read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text Now as you see at the bottom of the post, I am promoting virtualtempagency.com as it draws closer to launch the test within that link will change to get the most out of it. If I need more programmers it might say. Programmers click here for plenty of high paying work but the thing is whatever it says will have my keywords in it which is my anchor text. Hope this helps you.
The "weight" of a backlink can vary from nothing to a lot. The value of backlinks depend upon many variables including, but not limited to - PR of page, relevance of page to your page, and the number and quality of other outbound links on the page.
I am looking to buy a quality edu link if anyone can do this let me know. I bought 20 gov links last year and it put me in the pr8 to 10 range quick. pm me if you have a cheap edu link to sell.
I can get five for 300 right now but looking to get some edu's cheaper. And yes this is possible as well as gov links. To have a mind that is closed is a shame.
I'm with zexy and his comment about The Hostlers PR 8. Come on now.... PR8 right? so that means you're almost up there with Google and above EzineArticles and this Digital Site Point Forum etc... It's a pity to muddy the waters with inaccuracies because the value of EDU links is real but the example The Hustler gives sounds like pure fantasy to me...thanks for pointing it out Zexy and Lakeland Printing...i.e show us your PR8 dude
lol! for your information, gov links dont mean anything and it doesnt help you any better than other TLD links. did you say your site got PR8 - PR10 after buying those gov links? i guess you dont know what PR10 means and how many PR10 sites are out there.
thehustler... Interesting to note that you have a pr of 10 huh. So I guess having the billions of dollars that you must have like google does with their pr 10 you have nothing better to do than hang out in this forum Throw some my way buddy!
Hi sultanofseo.....all the cool people in here are in agreement about the PR10 comment but are you sure that .edu links don't have superiority over TLD's? I personally doubt that. What data do you base that comment on and how big a sample have you drawn upon to construct your hypothesis?...actually its not a hypothesis as you state it as a fact?
There are lots things in SE optimization. Link Building seems to be an important aspect of SEO. But it is not only the SE optimization. PR helps SERPS. I agree. But there are more things to think about in SEO. Haven't you seen even parked domains have good PR? Though, they'll not be ranked in search engines.