Most of the articles says that u should do only relevant link building and look for one way links more. But when u actually analize the sites coming in google in top 10, I conclude that its not true in every aspect infact in most case. Most of the sites coming in top 10 with a competitive words are getting links from sites which are by no means related to their activity. So what does this theory hold. I cannt see my site coming in top 10 with only relevant link building exercise...
SEO's who push the "relevant link building" theory are forward looking. Although that theory does not seem to work today, it may work in the future. Google/Yahoo/MSN are constantly getting smarter. But when? It might be awfully nice to be page one until the meltdown.
Relevant links are great if there are a boat load of similar sites ready and willing to link to you. In many cases however, there are only a few sites that meet this criteria. Like in my case, most other Realtors are not competent webmasters and have no clue on linking strategies. Often they use template sites that don't offer the option regardless. In addition, most of the relevant sites that offer links are automated and not SEO friendly. So bottom line, I try to get links wherever I can get them but try to control the link text.
So u agree that relevant lionk building is not pouring any fruitful results. It might be good to go for it from future prospects but in present scenario bulk link building counts, no matter from where it is coming.
relevant are better but in case we don't have many websites to link in, we can go in for some less relevant categories. and as i think, no one is aware of what is the real deal in getting on top of SERPs, so everyone is making guess. and what might work for one website might not work for another site. Cause there are lot of factors that count for getting on top. but relevant links are getting more and more important each day.
Now everyone is making directory section in their website. How far is it relevant. Say for example if a website is on cosmetics, in the directory page they make sections for everything including software, travel and others.. How far relevant is this. I would rather go for the following solution to the above example. In the links directory page i will put links only for One way directories, Resiprocal Link directories and Cosmetics site Links.. And in each link page i wouldnt go for more than 30 links. What do u guys thinks is it a better solution keeping in mind possible future updates of google. Also these days msn also started giving prefence to sites listed in directories rather than junk links. However its my part of observation..
I built my window treatment co. by buying text links. Not really relevant ones. Yahoo and MSN put me #1. My traffic jumped up 250%. Relevant links count more with Google. But I still made money with Yahoo and MSN.
the relevance of links are not about the relevance of a site. It's about the relevance of a page content. For any sites, you can find millions of relevant links. Google and Yahoo have been using relevant links for a while, it's not a future sense, it's rather present. Most authority sites rank well in Google with a few hundreds high quality relevant links.
What the search engines want to see are links that are natural. The best way to "manufacture" this is to have links that are embedded in alot of relevant content from another site. This is something that will help rankings now and in the future.