Comments on: Baiting the Waters for Link Success

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:08 +0000

I have like 100 backlinks from PR of Zero, then I have one PR of 5 but the Anchor text isn’t effective! Its just my company name, boo hoo.

Wish I would have written that one right

By: Porter

Porter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:58:43 +0000

I’m one who believes that many low level links won’t hurt you, they just won’t help you that much (aside from those who click the links while they’re still new, such as in forum signatures or comments like this). As far as search engines are concerned, I don’t see it hurting, I just see them ignoring too many low links.

By: Webdesign Cheshire

Webdesign Cheshire — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:35:40 +0000

I think that having any number of links from irrelevant pages are not going to hurt you in terms of rankings, but will not help you as much as a few relevant links. What is important is the links you get arn’t from bad neighbourhoods e.g. link farms, blackhat sites, black listed, spammy or sandboxed sites as these could really hurt rankings.

By: Susann / Tipps-Archiv

Susann / Tipps-Archiv — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:39:39 +0000

i don´t agree that low quality links are bad for your site – but sure quality ist the better way – but you need both. Adwards are a good idea for good links – and it´s so easy.

By: Case Ernsting

Case Ernsting — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:15 +0000

Hi Pittfall,
Great post…got me thinking. You close with your best point. Badges, Awards, Content…it all has to appeal to the target market. I think those tactful plays take care of the dispersion of low-quality links that previous comment-ers have noted. If you’re honest and genuine with your content, the rest/Google should take care of itself.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:10:41 +0000

I’ve read that a site owner must maintain a well-balanced link to avoid any trouble or penalty from Google (for example). But still, I’m confused about this matter cause some webmasters find all links as useful, no matter what.

By: Dyron Wilkie

Dyron Wilkie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:18:57 +0000

too right….having hundreds of low quality links is hurtful reather than helpful….try to concentrate on medium quality backlinks, and high authority backlinks are almost impossible!

By: dodger

dodger — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:47:17 +0000

Great post. But why do you think that large number of low quality links is bad? So why most webmasters spaming many forums for having millions links. Low quality links. It’ll gives shorttime effect, but it works!

By: pittfall

pittfall — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:06:25 +0000

Good call!

There are negative effects of having a large number of low quality links…the greatest thing to remember is balance. If you are only using a single type of link development tactic will be easily isolated by search engines. I didn’t want to get into the negative affects because of the nature and theme of this link development series is to have more than one tool in your link acquisition tool belt.

Thanks for the comment!

By: web page designer

web page designer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:13:08 +0000

I was hoping you’d go more into the negative effects of having a large amount of low quality links, as opposed to a few high quality ones. Do you feel search engines penalize sites for having a whole bunch of little links all over the place, or is it a case of ‘it won’t help much, but it also won’t hurt’. I do like the idea of awards and badges, but I feel that you should already have a significant presence before you go around offering these things. There isn’t too much incentive for such things unless it comes from a place that you can actually respect. Good article though, glad to see you’re back.