Contextual link building is a great way to achieve SERP, but I think it's going to be die soon. WHY? See bellow. When a link builder need links (contextual links offcourse, I'm not talking about any other method), they have to hunting bloggers from various source like DP and others active forums or marketplace. Many people will be agree with me that DP have the best marketplace to get blogger. After creating a thread I get tons of PM, whatever the niche. But the problem is, quality. Most seller sell anything in there blog. Nobody care about maintaining quality. They needs only money. And another painful thing is, dropped domain. It's spreading like viruses. Seems, most seller have dropped domain. I'm giving some example of dropped domain here, may be those seller can angry on me but I don't care zyybwg.com - Health blog hzfish.com - Tech blog but have many finance and health post rnc-re.com - Health blog but have a post in finance topic jygxqy.com - Health blog but have post in SEO topic ncccninc.org - Health blog prirodnjackimuzej.org - Health Blog Many buyers taking links from these type of blogs, they don't care about the domain name and the topic of the blog. Only links they need. And those owner selling a blog post in very cheap. Because, they did not spent any money for their link building to gain PR. They just paid a domainer for a PR domain and started a blog. Now sell and take money. Simple math, huh? For this simple math, this super link building method is gonna die soon. I do remember 2005, 2006 and 2007 when directory was one of the top method of link building. Then massive people came to this industry with simple math. And then? Quality dropped and Google reduced the value of directory listing. Now these days directory listing is almost out of counting. Still we have time to save this super method, just avoid these sellers. Don't buy link from them. They'll get lesson and will build good quality blogs for selling post. Just my 2c, drop your comments guys
A good view towards contextual links, most buyers who are buying links for themselves and know about SEO are careful while buying such links. It's newbie webmasters and SEO just want to buy links to earn commission who buy from such blogs. Many people have been using dropped domains to make money - directories, bidding directories, pixel ads, blog posts etc. so this is not a new thing. What makes these techniques for making money work is that many webmasters don't know they are being duped. BTW, I don't think contextual links would 'go away', bad links are not useful right now they will continue to be useless in future.
Thanks for your input. But think again about directory season. IMO, everybody need to take lesson from past
This is why you always have to actually take time & look through the site(s) you're looking to buy links on. Most of the sites here selling links, no offense, just aren't worth it. They are spam fest. People are just here to make a quick buck - we need some sort of quality review. Too many people are using dropped domain for old PageRank and old indexed pages when in reality it's just old info showing, ONCE THE DOMAIN IS DROPPED THE PAGERANK IS GONE AND SO ARE ALL INDEXED PAGES. It's dropped, it's worthless. That's from Matt Cutts from Google.
If that is true.. then we wouldnt have so many sellers with PR 3 and 4 sites from dropped domains. I dont really say that it imparts quality but the fact is that a dropped domain doesnt lose PR. So if google develops an algo change to make this possible for dropped domains then it would really shake things up in the right way.
All links to promoting your website into the top. Just quality links are more effective and useful for your site.
Dropped domain is not the main issue, issue is usage. If you take a tech name to built a health blog, this would be the problem.
I don't agree for a number of reasons, but I believe the one piece of "Fact" that you're considering which causes the most problems is that most blogs carry multiple topics. While most blogs talk about any number of things, I certainly talk about marketing and wine and sports and others in my blog.....there are some overarching categories at play. As long as you're part of one of those larger categories, you're links are in a good place contextually (which I don't think really matters).
NE ways putting health links on Tech website have no value. Google will not even consider it. Google looks for relevancy. Visitor coming on tech website expecting any techie content will not even look at health website listed. Thus loosing an visitor with a bad impression of both the website.
I don't think contextual links are going to die off. It's everything about quality. Quality contextual links will always be good, crap contextual links will always be completely useless.