Comments on: Link Value: Are All Incoming Links Equal? Part I

By: Catherine@Sanctuaries

Catherine@Sanctuaries — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:54:59 +0000

I am really interested to find out whether directory links are of much value or not. I have heard mixed reviews.

Obviosuly DMOZ and Yahoo will help the website’s traffic and ranking, but what about the free directories like the ones used for Fast Directory Submitter?

I guess I will do some experimenting

By: J@Watch Community Online

J@Watch Community Online — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:03:38 +0000

The more relevant the better, obviously. I also think anchor text is very important. I’ve had the best luck looking through directories to access to communities and find many sites related to my niche.

By: Darvin @ Yoga and Weight Loss

Darvin @ Yoga and Weight Loss — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:07:14 +0000

Link quality does really matter. Sometimes it is difficult to get Type 1 and Type 2 links, either because I can’t find sites that fit with my niche and accept links, or the owner of the site might see me as competition and refuse to link to me!? I just discovered your great tools (Fast Blog Finder and Fast Directory Submitter), so finding the types of linking opportunities is easier.

By: Milos@web dizajn

Milos@web dizajn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:51:25 +0000

Julia,

Post is fantastic, very useful, interesting and informative.

I’d like to speak about quality of any link, but in this case inbound link. I’d like to add that title attribute is just one of the equal parts of one link. Title attribute is very important in terms of SEO. IMHO just a little weaker then anchor text.

Anchor text of a inbound link should be almost the same with the meta title tag and heading – h1 of the destination web page. So anchor text should be consisted of about 7 – 8 words.

But title attribute of inbound link should be almost the same with meta description tag of the destination of web page about 15 – 20 words.

Thanks for sharing this post, keep up with that level.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:33:06 +0000

Hello Chris,

If you have a well established web site, you may not limit yourself to 10-20 links per day. You can grow links faster if you have such a possibility. The limit to 10-20 links per day is recommended for a brand new web site. If the site that has recently appeared starts obtaining a lot of links very quickly, it may be a sign for a search engine to watch closely at this site. So, the site may end up in the Sand box and will not appear on the first pages in the search engine for some time (usually during 6 months).

By: Dermaroller

Dermaroller — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:43:06 +0000

Yet another gem, Julia. Your analysis of link value is very logical and clear. Thanks – I have a question though, relating to rate of link growth. I always used to read advice saying don’t get more than 10-20 links per day average or else it appears unnatural. Is that still the case in your opinion? or is it more “natural” to grow links faster, because great resources can build thousands of links overnight if they get their exposure right?

Chris.

p.s. Thanks for the type 3 “ideal” signature link )

By: Mack@Las Vegas Real Estate

Mack@Las Vegas Real Estate — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:33:18 +0000

Julia, nowadays google has made itself so clever that anything apart from your type 1 and type 2 “ideal” links are not really considered when it comes to SERP and link popularity. It can be helpful to boost the PR, but to get on top of search engines for your keywords, you ought to have links from authority sites which are relevant and has a good ranking on its own right. I am sure it is easy to find niche related blogs using fast blog finder so that you can put in those keywords in anchor text, read the post carefully and comment meaningfully and relevant to get a natural incoming link.

By: sean@gogvo

sean@gogvo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:45:06 +0000

Hello Julia, havn’t had an email from You in a while! Read the post… like it! Did a type 2 link for gogvo from a relevant theme blog recently…
The owner went bannana’s thought I was stealing all his potential customers! The concept of reciprical linking went right over his head!
Looking forward to more… On this subject!

By: vppromoter

vppromoter — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:20:06 +0000

Good article.

Have couple of questions.

1) In my Search Engine Result Page(SERP) are several blogs. But thing is, that their comments system is nofollow. I know that there is dofollow and nofollow counting changes but still – will these comments on nofollow blog give me type 1 backlink bonus?

2) Directories is very fragile things. Very often they are flagged as linkfarms. So you must choose only clear, with good authority directories. Do you agree?

Also what you think about what is more important: document relevance or whole webpage relevance?

regards,
Vytas

By: tope@Lose Weight For Free

tope@Lose Weight For Free — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:10:26 +0000

Julia,

The 3 types of link building methods you have written about are what Google are looking for now. Gone are the days when exchanging links are popular. If one adds article writing and submission to the 3 then it will be completed. But my question is will one way links last for long? Hope Google will not change it’s algorithm soon!

Thanks for the educative post.