Hi Guys/Girls, So we all know how important it is to get backlinks but recently I found out why, its not just to help improve your rankings because good content sites can rank with limited inbound links. So if we can rank sites without inbound links why are they important? Recently one of our affiliates in this situation found suddenly all his links dropped 6 pages in google, he had changes nothing, no bad link buying, same content update patterns, everything was the same, so why the sudden drop? After some research we found that somebody else has started linking from negative sites and after being indexed just removed the content, suddenly he had 100's of crap links, because he had very few links to start the Big G issues him with a -60 penalty. He lost over £5k per month in revenue over night, so if you not building links for improved rankings, build them to stop competitors knocking down your listings with negative links.
Its a good question and me too little bit confused on it. Found many site in the tope position with and with out much BL. After checking some site with much BL get top position but age less and content quality is poor while compared to competitors. But others in top but less BL aged and rich content. So me come to a conclution that will success if build good Bl and at the same time update with rich content
It is one way to make move your way up in the rankings. Just destroy your competitors by doing some really bad link building for them.
I don't think that we will get penalized with linking from negative sites. The site dropped in SE ranking is because of he had do not enough SEO to keep his ranking there.
I don't think google will penalize you if your site gets a backlink from a negative site because it is not in your hand. Your competitor can get a backlink for your site to penalize you. The problem arises only when you provide a backlink from your site to a negative site. The fall in SERP could be due to some other factors...
Hi, was there no other factor in this change in position? I have had sites up with few links no 2 on google that have been there for a long time, mabye he needs to look a little closer?? dave
The 'google will never do anytihng to your listing from links that are out of your control' argument is an over-simplification. It implies that google has a relationship with webmasters that just doesn't exist. Google exists for SEARCHERS. If something has happened to your site that in the 'eyes' of the algorithm diminishes it's relevance, then it's position in serps can be affected. In terms of backlinks, it would have to be a huge spammy linkage from 'bad neighbourhood' sites to have that effect, but it can happen.
Google is built for searchers so that makes the point 'google will never do anything to your listing from links that are out of your control' just as relevant. If google doesn't provide the good results then they will lose searchers and fail!
I think backlink no need for PR but for improve PR using right keywords with relevant content. My blog got PR2 ( 2 months) and this blog never build backlink but now reset PR 0 after Google update PR
There are too many variables to take account of to say whether links are needed to rank well for a specific keyword. Sometimes a new site will spend time at the top of rankings before slipping back, even without links. Even if there are few links, one or two strong ones can make a big difference.
Backlink have to be related to your niche to get the best and the site must have little outgoing link.
Backlink give you higher pagerank and when you update your content you get it listening fast on google.
backlinks are important bcoz via backlinks google can give preference of website in terms of ranking, traffic