Google Offers Inbound Link Advice

Vey true, but nothing that hasn’t been said before. I don’t like the idea of one spammy link being too detrimental. It would be easy for a competitor to sabbotage someone elses site.

Further buttresses the point that no one can "fully" understand Google’s ranking algorithm. Personally, I think it’s a good idea to focus more on content though as i have seen a PR2 page outrank a PR5 page for most of the related keywords. Content is still King

I can’t help wondering why googlebot follows links on pages with the nofollow attribute.

 Yep, the content has always been the most important, so this makes perfect sense. The best content always gets tons of backlinks.

thanks for list

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What if you run a blog or a site in a very niche market? When you have written pretty much everything there is to say without getting too technical what do you do then?

Try to figure out how to write similar post just to keep the blog alive? Getting technical?

/Habil

I have found link-building to be tough and time-consuming. But I am making slow progress. However, my main task will always be providing good, fresh content. Does anybody know why Google doesn’t reflect links the way the others such as Yahoo does? If you do a search for links to your site, the sites Yahoo lists are way above what Google lists.

Google is a mystery no one knows for sure how its algorithm works, probably just few individuals at the helm. So it is better to stick to the basics as being adviced and it is not advisable to ‘fight the system out’ to win mother Google.

Thanks for the nice articles though.

Well folks, what i think from my prespective what google does is almost fine as the concept of paid directories, paid links are not natural links. It is one type of shortcuts to the achieve top links.

I can ask questions here:

What if All try for Paid links, directories etc,,,,, then would there be any natural links?

What about content if i directly buy thousands of links? I don’t even need a quality content instead my paid links would do it for me,,,,,

So due to such reasons Google would not prefer such type of links.

Its like this Natural optimization = Natual Content + Natural links

Some say blogging is spamming but what i would suggest is that if ur doing blogging to get a backlink with natural efforts then it won’t be a spam, as google itself knows that we need to build links as it algo is based on trustworthy links.

LINKS: 

•   Quality of links
•   Quantity of links
•   Rated Natural Links

"Its like this slow and steady wins the race"

While the bullet points might work for most of the blogs/news sites it doesn’t apply for small niche static websites. In these niches nobody links to each other for free.

With Google tinkering with the results so frequently – many of my searches now pull up these SOE blogs – which actually while having a lot of content don’t actually give any meaningful information – guess that’s why a robot likes them?

Most searches I do on Google – I now immediately jump to page 6+ of the results and start seeing the content that I was searching for – if that doesn’t work I’ll try another search engine until I find one optimised for my query.

The increasingly less relevant results Google are returning for these SEO blogs is a sure sign the SEO’s are winning and they are managing to fool Google into listing their pages first – I guess if it continues like this people will gradually keep moving from Google – wonder what next year’s favourite will be?

No offence but this is a very old looking website Albert. I suggest a radical redesign and you might see a difference.

There’s nothing more important than those quality inbound links – that’s is what I’ve always believed. It’s refreshing and interesting that the ‘G’ has finally acknowldged it too.

Nice one!

what about the plethora of SEO companies out there?? They base half their income on residual link building strategies! Surely this will only add to their stress?

Write about something exciting! So many people forget that content is still the number one importnat aspect. SEO is fine and dandy but at the end of the day you want repeat visitors, not a bunch of traffic with high bounce rates.

I new to SEO, How do i quantify good and relevant content?

that’s one reason i can see why Google decided to ignore "links" somehow, becuase of irrelevancy. (evil grin

thats just crazy talk, content important, but that means that you have to spend time on providing useful content not just sales crap….

im sorry but this is the best article that has been written recently on the topic, a simple test for content would you link it to your company website if not then likely others wouldnt…

I have an interesting situation. My wife and I own a nudist resort in Palm Springs, California.

Although the mainstream media has written a lot about our resort and we have been featured on TV many times, and we are one of the most popular resorts in Palm Springs, I have always found it very difficult to get sites such as travel sites, to link to us as they are "afraid" that conservative viewers will no longer visit their sites.

Getting links when you have a "controversial" business is easier said than done.

google count only dofollow link for link popularity, but yahoo count all link come from other websites. dofollow link is all link without rel="nofollow" tag.

Its always been that way, inbound links are most important and then comes content of the site, this has to be good too.

Who is going to link to a clothes line site? Mine is full of good content but has very few natural links to it. I rely on directories. Matt Cutts, ideology isnt perfect. Try and think about us and dont penalise directories so much.