This is for the beginners who want to know some basics of PR and back links. I just wanted to share some thought with you guys. Many of you may know this basic info. But there are many new, so repeating this old info will be good for many people, i think. What are the back links? When a link is placed on someone’s website that is pointing to your website, then it is called a back link for your site. Why It is Important To Get the Back Links Back links will give you mainly 2 advantages a) The back links increase the PR of your website b) The back links drive a share of traffic from the source websites. c) Your SERPs position is also improved by the back links. Althoug it is not the main factor. Relation Between Back links and PR PR of a webpage is directly proportional to the number of quality back links. If you are getting enough back links, then your PR will be boosted in a little time. But PR will be increased really if your back links are quality back links. What are Quality Back links I think a quality back link must have following 3 properties: a) A back link will be a quality back link if it is from a high PR site, say PR4+ b) If the theme, nature or subject of both websites is same then the back link will be called a quality back link. c) The anchor text of the back link should be your target key words. If a back link is having above three properties, then only few of these back links will be giving you a high PR and good traffic. Be Careful of rel=â€NoFollow†Tag You may see a lot of high PR blogs and sites where you can post your comments and can place your site link in signatures. But be aware, that most of these sites are using the “No follow†tag in the links. Actually a link with a nofollow tag is useless for your website in term of PR. This tag tells the search engines that dont pass the PR to the site where back link is pointing. It will be a simple back link and will not increase your PR. So before spamming any blog or forum, check if it is a “No Follow†blog/forum or “Do Follow†blog/forum. For Futher information please visit http://www.fruitventure.com/?cat=10 or http://www.fruitventure.com/?p=137 Nice That I can share this information after all I say Thank you Regards Proxysys
great post. What is the best way to obtain these quality links as described in your post besides paying for them?
After Penguin AGE RULES: Be sure that you have good enough of lowest PR backlinks or risk to mark your PR4+ links as innatural (and without any value) Yep, it`s better when we talk about footer/sidebar links and Comments - and You`ll go on page 1008 in results.. The Anchor text MUST be quality mixed as 20-30% targeted keywords, 20-30% long tail related, 5-10% your website link without http://, 10-20% some nonsence mix like "here,click here,read more etc.". DO NOT LINK to your main page! Link to inside pages (publications etc.) Be sure you have GOOD MIX of ofollow-Nofollow links - having only one type in innatural!
Here is a list of factors that will ensure your links are fully optimized, and save you lots of time by stopping you building poor quality links that have no value. The list is in no order of importance. 1. Look for high Pageranking sites PR3+, you will need a lot of PR0 links to make an impact. Also ensure the Pagerank is real. Look at Google’s cache of the page, fake Pagerank will show an entirely different website. 2. Ensure your link is anchor texted with your keywords e.g. SEO consultant Though this is well known, it is seldom done effectively 3. Try to use different text combinations and keywords in your links. e.g. London dentist, dentist London, W1 dentist. 4. Ensure the link will be a permanent/static html links. Links from forum signatures for example will only last a few months. 5. Create links in text format only, do not use any form of graphics that might hinder the search engine bots from following the link. 6. Do not create links in framed pages. Google and other search engines do not like them. 7. If someone says they will put a link on their website for you, make sure the links are not in JavaScript – check the source code of the site. This can sometimes be hard to spot. Search engines will ignore this type of link. 8. The websites you are putting your link on must be live. It must also be cached by Google (Another devious method to hide your link is for the webmaster to use cloaking...when Googlebot comes sniffing it will be shown a different page with no links on). 9. Check Links do not go through a redirect script – your link may be on a page, but when you click on it you are taken to another site entirely. 10. Try to avoid Flash sites – though Google is getting better at spidering them now. 11. Links cannot include a rel=nofollow tag - they must be DOFOLLOW to get the link juice. Though sites like MSN are reported to be ignoring this tag. Get hold of some good software to check this quickly – going through source code is very time consuming. 12. Avoid automated techniques – there are NO short cuts, well not many 13. DO NOT use link exchange programs or web rings – Google knows them all and you will get penalised 14. Ensure the Page is not excluded by robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ This entry tells the spiders to avoid any file located in the cgi-bin directory. If the web site owner places your link on a page inside this directory, it’s worthless. 15. Get links from different Class-C IP addresses – 200 from one IP is not great. Again use an ip checker on the website your intended links are going. 16. Do not buy links – Matt Cutts will sniff them out. This includes sponsored ads etc. 17. Avoid websites with Scraped content, you do not want links from a bad neighbour. Though they may not harm your website, they are worthless. You can go and use Copyscape to check a websites content for originality. For a quick free check, just cut and paste a large chunck of text into Google, this will show you all the websites with that exact content. The site may be the original owner of the content which has just been stolen - this is very common. 18. Try to get links from sites that are highly ranked by Alexa 19. Do not go all out for .edu and .gov websites – it is a myth that these pass more link juice. Though they often have good Pagerank. 20. Ensure you manually submit links to directories – getting into DMOZ for example is hard enough these days. Also try and get in the top directories first and spend time getting these links. See my authority directories list for some examples. 21. Avoid reciprocal links...well in moderation. These are out dated and frowned upon. 22. Build your links slowly...organically...like producing a fine wine. Don’t go all out and get 1000 in 1 week. 23. Stick to English language sites only, unless it is a foreign language site 24. Avoid pages with a high number of outbound links – if you are blog commenting and there are 200 comments, your link juice will be heavily diluted. 25. Keep your link pages relevant to your site. A link from a dog breeding website to your SEO Consultancy will not have much link juice. 26. Do not outsource link building to third world countries just because the prices look cheap. Quality control is vital, you may end up with a 1000 links from porn sites which could have a negative effect on your SERP rankings. 27. TEST the link actually works!
Good to see this actionable thread, I would suggest to go for both dofollow and nofollow( 80% dofollow+ 20% nofollow).