As long as they are not bad neighbors, it will be fine. But they will never be counted sometimes or give just little points for the site.
Unrelated links wont penalize you but i dont think google will consider them a quality link in boosting your SERP's . So getting such back links is rather no loss but no advantage too...correct me if i am wrong
You do n't need to worry about unrelated links as Google do n't have a methodology to find out which links are unrelated..
Backlinks from Unrelated or Spammy sites "may" harm your site if Google can detect a trend <<. If you are trying to game the system by getting a lot of low-quality backlinks in a quick time with anchor text of the keywords that you want to rank for...Google will obviously know But the truth is..Links that are coming "in" to your site posses very less or no harm compared to links that are going "out" from your site. If you are linking back to those "unrelated" / "spammy" sites..then you will definitely be penalized. So twink twice before you even think of doing a shady 1/2/3 way link building
I think occasional links will not harm your rankings. But if you get tons of irrelevant then Google will have problems with that
but if you've got a small site for catflaps, and get a big link from a financial site, google will think your site is less relevant to people who search for "cat flaps" but more relevant to "cats and finance". i've done something similar with a site that didn't have many links but was ranking ok for some keywords. Got an unrelated PR7 University link and it fell in the SEPRS for relevant keywords until i deleted the link, and i gradually moved up again
Don't be so sure, content & anchor is only one of a number of factors. Look at it this way. If you had "Jims Meat Market" as a title & content, but every single product on there was a vegetable, who'd link to it? Meat lovers? Or Vegetarians? Bad example I know, but don't rely on just content for Google to find out what your site is.
No penalization. They are just not weighted high. But too many links whether or not relevant can give you a penalization.
No, they Dont. but surely you want get the benifit of SEO terms. as those links which relate to the topic or niche of your site are usefull for SEo, rather than unrelated links.
Most time and most cases, off pages factor won't get penalized . I don't think unrelated links get penalized by google.
hi, I have 2 sitewide links from completly unrelated sites.But these site are in alexa top 100 000 and has almost a 200 000 visitors a day.In result,my site overranked many of the major players in my niche.It is on the first page for the keyword:"cheaper" with almost 80 m. results !I even don't target these keyword.So ,in my opinion ,if you get links from quality,trasted sites with lots of traffic,you will be on the top.
Having a related are better but Google wouldn't penalize your site for having those unrelated. Just look for those dofollow because Google wouldn't count nofollow as your link.
My concern is that these links are seen as spam as they are multiple links from wordpress bloggs etc... And does that cause the site to be penalized?? http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...i&bwmf=u&bwms=p&fr=siteexplorer&fr2=seo-rd-se Many thanks fro your comments in advance?? T
You can get penalized for loads of unrelated links. If you've got loads of unrelated footer links, etc. next to other unrelated footer links (for example) it can certainly happen. But, in most cases, you won't be "penalized" but don't expect the links to count for much. High in the content, in-content, on-topic links is where it's at.
I wouldn't think that a few unrelated back links would harm a site. If that were the case, webmasters all over the world would be linking a low quality, unrelated site to every competitor's site that they could find. However, I do suspect that unrelated back links don't carry as much weight with Google as compared to related links. That's open to interpretation as I'd gladly take an unrelated link from CNN any day. I also suspect that in addition to the theme of the link, Google places some weighted benefit to the length of time that a site links to another. For example, if two sites had the exact same domain age, PR, back links, etc. and site A linked to your site for 10 months versus site B that linked to your site for 1 month; site A would carry more "linking juice" with Google. No proof of that, just a theory based on my experiences.