Relevant or not?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Janet, Jul 11, 2006.

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    I am building my links directory with relevant sites and including photography and classified websites. I am thinking of exchanging links with auction and ebay related sites. Do you think these sites would be considered relevant? In my mind, they are because if a person has something to sell, they can use classifieds or auctions for their item. What do you guys think?
     
    Janet, Jul 11, 2006 IP
  2. heinlein99

    heinlein99 Peon

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    I'm fairly new at the whole game, but in my opinion ANY links are better than no links. Relevant ones are the best of course, but I would'n't turn my nose up at any others.
     
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  3. adamovic

    adamovic Active Member

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    Sounds relevant to me.
     
    adamovic, Jul 11, 2006 IP
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    duilen Active Member

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    Sure it sounds relevant and it probably is but I highly doubt google has 60 million monkeys hired to analyze sets of keywords for relevance. In my opinion the best way to check for relevance is to take a large pool of high ranking pages from both terms and see how many pages throughout that pool list the other terms. The higher the number the higher the relevance.
     
    duilen, Jul 12, 2006 IP
  5. Warkot

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    In my humble opinion, it's not as relevant as you could get. A dozen auction links gained thru link exchange wouldn't hurt, I think, but if you had the majority of your links from auction sites it wouldn't look natural to me.

    Warkot
     
    Warkot, Jul 14, 2006 IP
  6. Janet

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    No, it would definately not be a majority of my links.
     
    Janet, Jul 14, 2006 IP
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    GLD Well-Known Member

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    You can get penalized for unrelated links...
     
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  8. Warkot

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    Suit yourself. If those will be one-ways, it wouldn't really matter. Quite possibly they'll simply be devalued by Google.

    If those are gonna be reciprocal, you are looking at getting seriously penalized, or even banned from Google. Not overnight, but keep doing this and Big Daddy'll come and get ya... Or rather the G-bot will stop coming... :D

    Warkot
     
    Warkot, Jul 18, 2006 IP
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    One way I like to test if a link is relevant, is if you put it in your content to receommend the link to your visitors, could you justify it as belonging there as part of the article?
     
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    Another great way to determine relevance is wheter or not it would be a good reference or source in the way that you would think of one when you were writing an academic paper. For example, Wikipedia would be a good source on most topics, but a Geocities page would probably be a bad one. eBay might be a good source on auctions, but it might be a bad source on brain surgery.
     
    Blackbeard, Jul 18, 2006 IP