Hello guys, I`m a bit curious of something and maybe this is a silly question for some of you more experienced guys, but I was wondering if the quality of content affects the value....weight of a backlink. I mean if I choose to spend quite some time and write some quality content and post it on a 2.0 Web property.....will this weigh more as a backlink to my site than 500 word article with unique content....readable by the average user ...posted to some 2.0 Web property? I am thinking yes, but some arguments of more experienced webmasters here would still help clear things a bit.
There may be some difference simply from the content, but the real difference would be that original, quality, remarkable content is more likely to be shared and linked to by others. Posts with more links and shares will pass on more link authority.
@lesterj has an excellent point. This is what I always try to keep in mind about linking. The point of linking isn't solely about the 'weight' of the link or if the link is follow or not. The main point of linking is to get people to come to your site and convert from traffic to customer. So, which type of post is going to get traffic to your site so you can gain more customers? This is the type of post you should be working on.
Details outlined above by lesterj, while little to no difference would be made from the content itself, higher quality would have added benefits. WebDev
it's a likely possibility but it all depends. I can't really say for sure if it does affect rankings, because search engines have their own unique algorithm and way of looking at things. The only thing you can do is continue striving to create unique, engaging and meaningful content and publish it to your site in hopes that you improve your search engine rankings long-term instead of worrying about improving rankings in the moment. Retain a long-term vision of way you desire your online business to be. Keep going no matter what!
My take is that quality content is the safest and most beneficial route both to avoid getting smacked by Big G (Penguin 2.1 targeted shitty content) and to increase the possibility that your content gets shared or converts to traffic to the site you're linking to. That being said... I feel like Web 2.0 properties are so not worth your time and effort. Write a good article and then seek out a stronger place to post it / link from.
I wonder if search engines might give links that have traffic flow more juice then links form the same site with no traffic flow. -New York times has a great article in the ____ section one day 10,000 people follow the link to the authors site. -Next week the same section in the New York times has a lame article 10 people people follow the link to the authors site. Would search engines put the same weight on each link ? It's hard to say. But I wouldn't be surprised if the one with more traffic got a little more weight.
my content is always indexed by Google and I always create unique content enjoyable for people to read as well as informative.
I`ve heard that Google looks at the traffic of yr site as well to rank yr website. So why wouldn`t be the same with a NY Times article ?
So you say Web 2.0 properties are now worthless? I mean they probably turn into week links, not that they don`t matter at all probably. So what remains? Web 2.0 are no longer good links, and the same with Article Directories or Website Directories. Just posting articles on related websites and use the other type of links a bit just to vary our link profile?
I wouldn't say they're completely worthless, just that IMHO they're not worth the work. Spun content just doesn't work anymore which means if you're gonna have any chance of a web 2.0 link being worth anything you'll have to write an original piece. And if you're gonna do THAT you might as well go and buy a contextual text link on a related, high authority site -- something with good PA/DA. Pagerank is dead.
well, I heard that our PRs will be updated at the beginning of next year. I`m not sure how accurate that is.
The value of content today is given by how many people link to it. If you develop great content and you get a lot of people mentioning it and sharing it, that content will very valuable, wherever it's on your site or on a web 2.0
absolutely. the better the quality. while PR is domain and link based but if a website has quality content it will get more traffic and links to it in turn enhancing the PR of the that site and making the links of the sites it points too more valuable.
Of course it does! Pretty difficult getting good sites to look to your site if it contains crappy content.
yes it does. but contest should not be copied. If you have unique or quality content then google will give high priority to your website.
Guys, it`s about the content of my backlinks, not my site`s content. The backlinks with high quality content are more powerful from just unique but not quality content ? This was the main idea....
Yes, the backlinks with high quality content are more powerful from just unique content. I have done some research on this too.