Sites with few backlinks, still high PR

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Luc, May 7, 2009.

  1. #1
    I've seen a few sites appearing on the first pages of Google results when looking for general keywords such as "home organizing" or "proofreading". When checking, these sites had about 20-50 backlinks alltogether.

    Still they show up on the first or first few pages. Also contentwise, one of these sites had only a few pages explaining the provided service.

    What makes them rank so high then? Are backlinks really important?
     
    Luc, May 7, 2009 IP
  2. xYvesx

    xYvesx Active Member

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    #2
    Backlinks are most important - then Content then - Onpage SEO in my opinion

    if you have strong backlinks, you dont need that much for most keys
     
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  3. Nixies

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    #3
    We would need links to the site to give you a better idea, but it could be age, really trusted links. Their are a number of factors. Links are still very important, but it's quality rather than quantity.
     
    Nixies, May 7, 2009 IP
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    I guess the quality of links must be too high. Afterall you can get 1000's of links from spam sites and other ffa sites. Google looks at quality over quantity
     
    coolamazer, May 7, 2009 IP
  5. digitalextrememediagroup

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    #5
    It could be domain age or the ratio of other site in competition, content uniqueness. Realistically in the first few page things can drop off fast. It’s like fishing off the East Coast. The first few listing or top in a serp is the goal.
     
  6. jacky8

    jacky8 Active Member

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    It is possible that all the above explanations are false. The site owner may have purchased that high PR domain recently.
     
    jacky8, May 7, 2009 IP
  7. digitalextrememediagroup

    digitalextrememediagroup Peon

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    True in which case if he changes the content he may get a goose egg!
     
  8. seosapien

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    #8
    Where did you get the report of the backlinks? If you got it from google than you are not seeing what is really happening. Try yahoo site explorer, it isn't exact but it will show a lot more links.
     
    seosapien, May 7, 2009 IP
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    #9
    There is always sites thank rank well but have very little back links, it just goes to show there is much more to it than sites linking to you.
     
    mrboomboom, May 7, 2009 IP
  10. link_seller

    link_seller Banned

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    #10
    maybe the sites get high quality backlink...so because they only get few backlinks but they still powerfull
     
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  11. jacky8

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    an idea about how to get a few high quality backlinks like that???
     
    jacky8, May 8, 2009 IP
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    #12
    Backlinks are one of the factors for getting high PR ,not the only reason for PR. Some factors like age of the site,trust & credibility,brand popularity etc will count
     
    stevejeff, May 8, 2009 IP
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    jacky8 Active Member

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    And all these factors will be reviewed by Google's manual team
     
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    backlinks can be determine by quality as i know how google assign to it. better to have a lot of quality link to get good ranking. quantitiy not important.
     
    dglas, May 8, 2009 IP
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    seokingdom07 Banned

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    #15
    Quality backlinks with unique content really matters in position in SERPs.
     
    seokingdom07, May 8, 2009 IP