irrelevent backlinks

i want to know if irrelevent blog comments or forum posting can hurt results
yes or no (there is a lot of confusion in SEO field some say yes other say no...)
plz comment

 

any backlink counts as a "vote" for your site. How much weight that vote is worth is determined by several factors such as pagerank, relevance, outbound links on page, where the link is placed on the page, surrounding text, site authority... the list goes on. However its safe to say that while the big G may decide not to give a link to your site any weight its almost certain that it will not have a NEGATIVE impact on you.

Google has publically stated that there is almost nothing someone can do off site to negatively impact your sites rankings. The key word of course is almost. However if you are wondering if a comment on a blog about robots pointing back to your site about oranges is going to hurt you, the answer is no. Its not the highest quality link in the world, but its still a link and links are good

 

Backlinks count be it from relevant or irrelevant sources. Its like a vote to your site, irrelevant backlinks have less weight in votes and relevant has a higher weight.

But every backlink counts

 

I believe they can only improve your positions on those positions.

 

Yes, every backlink counts since search engines have different ranking algorithms. It's better to have a lot of backlinks.

Yahoo! will index all backlinks anyway.

 

That is correct. But as for your main keywords be aware your rank will not change

 

No they wont hurt you
but they wont help you either

Say if some competitors picks you up and start doing Black listed forum spamming
So in that case you are victim so as i said it wont hurt you but wont help you either

 

Agree that every backlinks will be count. irrelevant backlinks will not give you negative impact.

 

you never know which back links work for you. Highest relevancy of back links are being appreciated but it has a negative impact on your website so the best way is to use mixed link building strategies...

 

Had irrelevant or unrelated blog comments could hurt results, then all i need to gain good rankings in "G" is to get irrelevant and unrelated blog comments for my competitors
At the most they may not count as backlinks....

 

you get irrelevant link if you have put it on a non-relevant niched site... But yes, everyone has a point in counting out the relevancy and weight of a certain link, its just that Google has its own algo and their the one judging it...

 

I am reaaly looking for answer to this question about irrelevant links from other sites.. Thanks for sharing.. It's really scarely if someone can kill your rankings offsite through links on irrelevant sites.. At least now I know..

 

neither they hurt nor the help ... if you build quality back links then it helps a lot

 

NO... I thing on link build no need to care much for relevancy... try on quality....high ranked sites BL etc

 

Thanks! ApexSEORM for the detailed answer.
Can a massive amount of irrelevant back links cause negative impact on ranking?
Some People's view is, it's cause for ranking fluctuations. Is it true?