Hello all DP members! i want to know how to determine which backlinks are good and which are harmful. Bellow are some question which i want to get answer 1: i am getting 300+ links from several pages of my site to askives.com please tell me is it good ot bad? 2: i am also getting links from some search engine type sites like aceh.today (good or bad?) 3: i am also getting links from new domains like gen180.com (good or bad) i did not make any link in such sites but im getting links day by day from such resources.please tell me is it harmful for my site ranking or not? as we all know penguin is still rolling out and i am facing huge fluctuation in my organic traffic. waiting for reply....
Bad = low quality sites that add no value and are not relevant to your site Good = High quality sites with great content and readers in the same niche as your site.
This is the basic explanation, yes. We don't know what your website is about so cannot comment on specific links from specific websites. But if you follow the logic above you can easily determine which link is needed and you can disavow the others
I would recommend you higher an SEO expert to help you. Understanding what is bad/good will not help you rank, becayse there are a lot more factors that go into ranking algorithm. They can't be all explained here, which is why people write books about SEO
You can check for SEO checklists. They should be a good place to start. Build site, put content, submit sitemap, etc..
Every backlink is good and bad aswel. Backlink can we good if the link suggest your site to the best for what the person looks at else its no use. For eg: I your website is taking about cars and you get a backlink from the site which talks about animals its suppose to be a bad link as the user who likes to know more about animals has go to do nothing with the website talk about cars. I would recommend you to fetch all the backlinks and look of relevancy to your site content. If it match retain it(good backlink) else disavow them
Software or other mediums that are producing tons of backlinks for the particular website just to manipulate the rankings are considered as unethical way to build links. Creating unique, interesting, and engaging content is the best way to generate quality backlinks for your site.
I have to politely disagree with you. Relevance has nothing to do with whether or not a backlink would be considered spammy. You are thinking about SEO too much in a vacuum. The web is interconnected it wasn't built for the purpose of only hyperlinking links in the same niche.
This will not answer your questions though but just an opinion, the worth and effectiveness of backlinks will depend on its relevancy.
I didn't say they are considered spammy and I have ranked sites with 15 - 20 links when others had 1000's that had no relevancy. Fact!
Word! Harmful would be porn and shit like that, cuz that will get you banned. Not just any not relevant links
It's more to do with the quality of the site than the niche itself. But yeah, porn sites are more likely to be practicing in shady practices.
Good link: related topic, not spammed or filled with more than 50+ external links Bad link: not related to topic at all, spam links