I would like to know if my website link is placed on a website which is of the same topic such as "car doors" and the link is placed on a website whose niche is " car lights" where the domain PR maybe high but the link placed on the page may not have any PR .. How much value would it give to me..? Please explain properly..
The individual PR for the page is what matters. Simply having a facebook page with your site linked on it doesn't mean you're getting a PR10 backlink to your site. It's based on the individual page, not the homepage. So yes a PR0 link on a car niche blog whose homepage is PR5 will still be only as affective as a PR0 link. However, if you get a sidebar or footer link on that PR5 site, then you will get link juice from the PR5 homepage, the PR0 link on the other page, and any other pages on that site as well!
@silentx.. I know what umeant on top.. what I am reffering to is a link from a similar website though the place where my link is placed has no value and how far will that boost my position in serps.. I heard this helps a lot.. How far this is true/..?
In my experience, I know that relevant sites helps to bring traffic to your site but it does not really matter that much for search engines. To get a benefit for a backlink you should look at the following factors: Placement: The placement of the link is very important. In these day, contextual links count much more than sidebar links or footers. If your are placing a link in a comment. Make sure you add enough text to make it worth. Incoming links of the target page: This is a factor that nobody takes into account. The more incoming links the page has better benefit for you link. PageRank and TrustRank: The page rank of the target page is important, the higher the better, also the pagerank of the main domain is important too, the higher it is the most TrustRank your link will have. I recommend you to download the SEO Book tool bar. It will help you to determine the value of the target website. About the relevance, relevance does not matter that much if your link is placed contextually. So you can write an article and mention your site during the article. Those kind of links worth a lot.
Here's a quote from Google's webmaster guidelines: Your site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356
Regarding Placement .. where did u got that informayon.. can u please show any detials of it..""The placement of the link is very important. In these day, contextual links count much more than sidebar links or footers. If your are placing a link in a comment. Make sure you add enough text to make it worth. ""
A relevant backlink on an established site with low OBL is always a high quality link even if the site has no PR. Granted, it may not shoot you up to the top of Google alone, but I certainly wouldn't avoid getting those links if you can get them quickly and easily.
one link will help, but you are going to need a lot more than one to see results, regardless of how relevant the link is.
The idea behind this research was to determine which factors professionals from the field of SEO consider to be of influence on the value of a link and/ or on the potential amount of link juice that a link can pass. Because most of us understand the value of links in terms of traffic, this research mainly focuses on the value that search engines may allocate to a link. Every factor has been rated on a scale from 1 to 5 by the participants: 1. Not of any influence on the value 2. Fractional effect on link value 3. Moterate influence on the link value 4. Strong influence on the link 5. Very strong influencing factor Section 4 of this document contains seven possible dampening factors. Here, dampening doesn’t necessarily mean that these factors have a negative effect (e.g. as in a penalizing effect) on the link in question, but it only means these factors might be able to make the link of lesser value. These factors could have als be named "possible link juice reducing factors", but dampening factors was shorter. Every dampening factor will be highlighted with (DF) in the Top 10 below. These factors have also been rated on a 1 to 5 scale: 1. No negative effects at all 2. Slight negative effect on the value 3. Somewhat negative effects 4. Big negative effect on the link value 5. Maximum negative effect
The highest value link you can get is a contextual homepage link on a PR3+ site. All you have to do is imagine you are the Google algorithm looking for 'natural' links. What would you put at slot 1 on page 1? Answer: Perhaps a story about something on the homepage of cnn.com? - An extreme example, but you can see where I'm coming from? A contextual homepage link on a PR3+ site. Which answers your other question. Relevancy is irrelevant! A news site can have stories from any niche it likes. Any other link will be inferior. That's why there are people out there who will rent you these contextual homepage links.
Links form relevant pages is very important in SEO and not only this will provide link Joice but the relevant traffic too