Hey guys. I'm not very good at writing articles for the new niche that I am diving into so I'm wondering if I could get away with writing articles about completely different subjects I am VERY familiar with and then backlinking to websites regarding the new niche I'm currently building up. Since the articles I'm writing would have nothing to do with the backlink I'm leaving at the bottom, would this hurt the backlink from an SEO standpoint?
This might be confusing. It would be something like this: "video game article" <body> (video game backlink) <some more stuff> (computer speakers backlink) <--completely irrelevant
You mean like instead of writing a killer article on on dung beatle and their mating habits write one on weight loss submit it to ezinearticles and articlesbase hope it gets syndicated and scrapped and pick up possibly hundreds of links? Nah, article marketers will bend your ear on that and give you all kinds of grief. I can see why you didn't ask it in the marketing forum A link from a high PR relavent website would be better, but given the choice between no links or a backlink from an irrelavent website I'd take the irelavent link anytime. It seems to work with Yahoo. And from the number of profile link packages that are around I'm assuming that it must work on Google.
I see this on ezinearticles all the time. I agree with bob25: it would be great if it were relevant, but I still think it would help you somewhat. Hopefully, though, you'll pick up more knowledge of the new niche soon so you can submit related articles.
The reason why it's not a great idea is because if you just spend a little extra time writing relevant articles, the articles will actually generate site visitors for you! Yes, backlinks are important, but the beauty of articles is that they give you rank AND traffic. It's worth the extra hour it will take you to write a relevant article. Seriously.
I am just wondering why you are entering into a niche that you know little about. I am confused on how you think it will become success, when you don't have the general knowledge of your product/service.
I read a really good e-book that was mentioned to me on another forum regarding this same proble and posting articles with irrelevant backlinks was one of the authors secrets. Basically, in my case anyway, I could generate 10 backlinks an hour with 5 articles with topics of interest to me. Or I could generate 2 backlinks with a relevant article where I might get a few click-throughs here and there from it. It is worth more to me to get these high-PR backlinks that will go towards helping my google rankings and search terms because in the end, that will bring in more traffic IMO.
I think you should do what your comfortable with while you are learning about tho other, That way you are still getting links.
google works on keywords. if you sprinkle your keywords into the text well enough, even out of context stuff has a chance of ranking. Although why you wouldn't want to just write about the real topic is beyond me. You speak English, dont you?
If you are looking for backlinks, do it, if you are looking for traffic DON'T! As people who are interested in the topic will see the article and read it to then be taken to a non related site - they will be frustrated.
I agree that an irrelevant backlink is better then no backlink but think about this, if you spend the extra time to write relevant articles and then you link one article to another submiting them to article base rather then ezine (ezine doesn't allow you to link articles) then your articles could end up holding multiple page positions next to your site. Imagine how much traffic you would get then. As for not knowing anything about your niche just do some research, I have written tons of article in a niche I knew nothing about just with research.
remember - every link counts, so it would have a positive effect on your SEO. that said, it would probably be better to have a link from a related site. but also think of your users - should somebody stumble across your article you would prefer to take them to related resource would you not? if necessary, outsource to another writer. i know a good english speaking native that charges £5/500 words if you're interested pm me
I know this is completely different from the other replies here, but if you don't think your any good at writing, spend some time reading other peoples good blogs. You can pick up a lot of tips in many other facets of online marketing (or puppy care if that's what you want to read about) and you will be subconsciously learning what it takes to write good articles. Just my two cents.