Whats the effect of irrelevant backlinks?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jophan, Aug 9, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    there are a lot of SEOs here who claim that
    getting backlinks from irrelevant themes/niches
    are not as effective as theme based ones.

    I think that makes sense. But, nonetheless, these
    irrelevant backlinks still have a certain effect on your
    serps.

    The question I ask myself is how many irrelevant backlinks
    are as effective as one relevant link.

    This question is of course difficult or even impossible to
    answer but maybe someone has certain estimates from
    proven experience.

    Or can irrelevant links even cause demage to your site
    (I'm not talking about porno-sites/link-farms and other
    related low-value sites)?
     
    jophan, Aug 9, 2008 IP
  2. jdonaldson

    jdonaldson Peon

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    #2
    Irrelevant links wouldn't cause damage to your site. If that was the case, I could post irrelevent links to your site all over the place. What a great way to get rid of your competitors!

    Irrelevant links are simply ignored.
     
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  3. Camay123

    Camay123 Well-Known Member

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    #3
    To your last question: No, irrelevant links cannot cause damage. At worse they wont produce any effect.

    I do believe that all backlinks can contribute to some extent to your serp.
     
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  4. homebizseo

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    A backlink is a backlnk. A high pagerank backlink will give a serp bump.
     
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  5. WarrenBuffett

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    Wrong. IF that was the case then buying links would not be of any SERP benefit. And they very much are.
     
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  6. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    I also dont think that they are simply ignored.
     
    jophan, Aug 9, 2008 IP
  7. cabron

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    #7
    No, they are not ignored, but their value is low. Maybe sometimes very low.
     
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  8. lycos

    lycos Well-Known Member

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    #8
    Try not to have irrelevant backlinks although a small number would not be considered detrimental towards your site. To my opinion, try to count it as a ratio which means that about 1 out of every 5 backlinks can be those coming from irrelevant site.
     
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  9. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    #9
    yeah irrelevant backlinks also have good effect.From my experience, I have seen many improvement in SERP even from non niche backlinks.
     
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  10. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    the reason why I opened this thread is that a lot of SEOs exist here on DP
    who offer their service by generally building just links but not really niche
    oriented backlinks. for example there is someone who just offers forums links
    and apparently his customers are getting good results. I dont know how true
    that can be. I mean forum links are not that important.
     
    jophan, Aug 9, 2008 IP
  11. jdonaldson

    jdonaldson Peon

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    And look at all the sites that disappear in an instant because of buying links. 10 good relevant links from authority-type sites are worth more than 100+ irrelevant links, most of which - if not all - will be ignored.
     
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  12. zexy

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    #12
    Irrelevant links won't damage your SERP. In fact they help, just not as much as related links.
     
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  13. juingwoo

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    #13
    no traffic and irrelevent user
    Think link user don't think like search engine..
    My personal think is that relevant link will give more use then search engine..
    in the manager issues like keywordes: seo, sem, loan there you can get more traffic buy search engines and also relevant link gives you trust rank
    what is trust rank???
    search engine knows it is a good site like you are searching hosting in google hostgator is well know and type hostgator you can see different pages of hostgator in first witch google have taken automatically
     
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  14. Next

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    They just don't give as much weight to the links.

    I don't really understand what the OP considers relevant and irrelevent, because most DP'ers have links in their sig.
     
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  15. genuineseo

    genuineseo Well-Known Member

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    #15
    Search engines rank your site depending on relevant backlinks.
     
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    #16
    Irrelevant incoming backlinks don't do any damage to your site.. but, Irrelevant outgoing links might decrease your Pagerank.
     
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    This is quite interesting because I had this question in mind as well. So there seems to be some disagreement on where or not irrelevant backlinks help in Serp or at least in degree of how much they help.
     
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  18. tradeya

    tradeya Notable Member

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    #18
    sometimes if you already got lots of relevant and have no more idea where to get a link, irrelevant might be an option. but I have to say that get the relevant one always better, you will get both link juice and traffic.
     
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  19. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    right, and only some of these links are relevant to certain webmasters. this forum is about online marketing/seo/sem. if your link in your sig points to a site which is about online marketing/seo/sem then
    this link is relevant to you. links which point to different website niches are irrelevant.
     
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  20. lightlysalted

    lightlysalted Active Member

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    #20
    there is no effect it won't hurt you.
     
    lightlysalted, Aug 10, 2008 IP