Will a blog or a website fetch higher value for a link assuming all other factors are the same i.e. same PR, same topic, same target audience.
it's related with relevance. if both sites are on same category like sport,finance , it will effect but if they not related sites , it will effect nothink
if same everything i still think a blog since it can go into another inner page with just the topics and link, i dont know but i guess thats my opinion
Thank you for your feeedback. Why is a link in a blog has lesser value? Could it be that people do not take the content of a blog seriously?
it depends on the blog if its a poor blog im sure it has a lesser value. If its a poor website then it will also have a less value vice versa
You would think that the content and rank of the source would matter more than the format of the source itself? Generally speaking links from relevant content sites that are linked to by other relevant sites (not link farms) is best? -Raymond
If you look at Matt Cutts blog, his PR is only 6, I thought it would be 7 or 7.5 by now, but his backlinks number is tremendous... Almost every SEO blog has a link to him, so maybe that is an indicator that blog backlinks dont count?
In my oppinion it is only about releveance of the website or the blog. The se's don't care. But the advantage of a blog is, that it is updated more frequently, which makes the bots visit it more often.
i'm on this train of thought as well. if I have a blog, I'd probably prefer a high profile blog link than high profile website link since the traffic from the blog may be targeted better toward my site, and I'd probably get more subscribers & returning visitors this way. This is assuming everything else is even
As long as the content is targeted and relevant to the content of your site then it doesn't really matter I don't think. Relevance is the key!
You are correct. Search engines do not devalue a blog for being blog .edu, .gov links are also as same as .com links blogger links are as valuable as website links The key really is the content rich in good keywords/keyphrase + uniqueness.
I agree. But most blogs are too generic, trying to cover many themes. Also, usually the blogs has many more outbound links (even sometimes with many links for several social bookmarking sites on each article), so each link has lesser value.
No, I don;t have a link to quote but the benefit of links from blog (for serps) is for a shorter duration of time while the links from a site would have value for a longer duration. therefore, all things being equal (along with the assumption that relevancy is equal as well), the value of a link from a site should provide better vlaue than compared to that of a blog
I will have to disagree with it. What is the differences beetween a page from a site and page from a blog ? A blog IS a site. The only difference is the "format" (newer content on the home pushing the older content), but, usually, internal linking is very efficient in blogs (because most of blogging solutions are well built) so a link from a blog page may very well be more valuable (every others factors being equal) than a link from a more or less orpheaned page on a "traditional site" with a poor internal linking structure. And in the case of even the internal linking structure is equal, then, imho, there is no differences at all, and no way to differentiate one from the other.
The difference is that the link from a site page would not shift its position where as the one from a blog page would shift - first from the home page, then to the archives