I have seen many people asking for niche related link building. People Think that only site with same niche are to go with. But in reality it's not the case and it's not what Google only want. What happens when commenting on niche related do-follow blogs. Imagine you have a health related website and you want to build quality backlinks for it. The people tend to only search for niche related blogs and websites to comment on. Many guys here think that link building on niche related blogs is the best way to gain SERP. But it's wrong! When commenting on niche related blogs, you will see other people commenting on it too with there heath sites. Seeing that it is a health site, you comment on it too. But when Google spiders crawl's that page for to gather backlinks for sites, they only select the best health sites with good unique content and which are established. On these accounts they judge the weight of link juice. Now imagine 15 sites, all health related comment on the blog. The Google will only give importance to best 5-7 sites(as per their algorithm or something). Other sites will not get that quality which they were looking for. But it's not the same with a non related niche site. When commenting on different and diverse niche the weight of each link will be heavy then commenting on only niche related sites. When Google will go to the site, in which your link is placed, it will give more importance to your site, then those which are niche related. It's a proven fact which many people here will offend. But it's the way it is. People here provide many do-follow commenting service and the newly emerged A. Edwards backlink packs. This is based on this technique only.
ok. First things first. Links from related sites hold more power and value than links from non related sites. If all your links come from non related blog comments google will at some point notice, there getting better and better at spotting this type of thing. Personally i dont feel blog commenting is a link building technique, its spam and i feel within 2 years Google will completely devalue these types of links. Google DOES NOT select the best sites to give the link juice to. They distribute the link juice evenly, some feel that the first links on a page get more of the value but they certainly dont favour certain sites.
I never said, not to comment on niche related blogs. But commenting only on niche related blogs will also not doing you any good.
At the moment Google is still trying to work out how to tell if a link is a blog comment or not, its nearly there but still tweaking its algo The one thing it can do is tell if the link is from a related site so why post on unrelated sites?
its common knowledge to be honest further reading http://www.seounique.com/blog/how-google-finds-paid-links/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/indexing-timeline/ http://www.seoproblems.com/matt_cutts_suggestions.asp 2005 but still relevant http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum12/2864.htm
hmm... Can you explain why people want backlinks from Ezine or go articles or any other article directories. They are no niche based sites. Any reason?
How is it possible you to know that for sure? Maybe you have Google's algo source code from somewhere? Agree, I also think blog comments as a link building "technique" will be gone very soon. In any case I definitely believe that related links work way better (even from sites with lower PR). A high PR link from an unrelated site might bring you better PR if that's your goal, but not so much better search engine rankings for your aimed keywords...
Explaining - personally I use articles mainly for deep linking. And these links are pretty well related to the entire content on that particular page, as it is exactly written (the article itself) for the keywords one want to rank better. Something, which cannot be said for let's say a blogpost about real estates, which you comment(spam) with a link to health related site! That's just my opinion of course...
When submitting articles to article directories, its not about gaining backlinks. Its about drawing attention, and maybe a few visitors, to your site. Also, there are webmasters who collect niche articles. They might copy your article (including a link to your site which you put in the 'about-the-author-area'). That's why webmasters publish their articles in article directories.
The idea is to submit a niche based article which will make that particular article page niche based! I have been an SEO for 8 years and have spent hundreds of hours experimenting with link building strategies From my years of experimenting with backlinks, I can tell you with 100% certainty that all backlinks are beneficial, however, a relevant backlink is more beneficial than a non-relevant backlink... Period! It will take many non-relevant links to equal the value of only 1 relevant link, so why waste a lot of time building up Non-relevant backlinks when you can spend a fraction of the time pursuing relevant backlinks