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4.5 Quality of links

As I already said, with links sites kind of vote for each other, and some "votes" are more trusted by Search Engines than others. This is what we call different link quality.

Like, when you ask for advice on to which nursery to take your kid, you′ll better trust Maggie who′s got three kids of her own, rather than Charles, who′s a bachelor of 47 years, never had children and only heard about nurseries from his friends.

So here′s my off–page optimization advice #1:

Always think of the quality of links you′re getting.

And I′ll give you tips that′ll help you get only premium quality links.

4.6 Link farms and FFA sites

There′re hundreds of such websites that promise you SEO wonders, but I′ll tell you how it all works.

FFA (Free For All) sites and link farms are pretty much alike: FFAs are special sites where anyone can drop a link — and a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other page in the group. You can be tempted by a promise of "10,000 FFA links" and you may even really get these 10,000 links, hoping that your site will look very "popular". But instead, you get nothing but bad neighborhood and, most probably, penalization.

Google often acts like a human being: it′ll think if you "hang out" with these "bad guys", you′re pretty much the same. The quality of links you can get at link farms is most often so bad that Search Engines may stop trusting you and even kick you out of their indexes due to membership in a link farm.

Therefore, stay away from FFAs and link farms and try to build good quality links — and build them at the right pace. Sure, it takes longer to get a high quality link, but the results are worth the effort.

In the next chapter I′ll tell you how quality links are built. And right now, I′ll let you know, what a good link is made of.

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#4734 2018-06-14 10:08:14 Sanjay Burman

The post was very helpful. Thanks for sharing with us.

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#4373 2016-01-15 01:01:55 Anton Shutenko

some words about black seo )

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#3672 2013-04-22 08:45:00 Shane Ryans

One thing that has been bothering me for awhile is...are disques comments good seo wise?

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#3684 2013-04-29 07:17:27 Dan Richmond

Hello Shane.
Please see my comments above. You will find the answer to your question.

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#3577 2012-12-03 07:25:19 Stewart Lucas

Hello Dan

I can't tell you how useful this site is!
It certainly made me buy the software.
My question is; will links back from comments like this one, on websites like yours and others, increase my SEO?
Cheers
Stewart

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#3586 2012-12-05 04:09:03 Dan Richmond

Hello Stewart.

Today, most of the forums and blogs use no-follow attributes.And we also do. But practice shows that even no-follow backlinks are counted by Search Engines. Of course, Google treats them not the way it deals with do-follow ones, but still they do benefit.

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#3456 2012-08-06 07:21:05 Dan Richmond

Hello Luigi.

You, know it usually takes up to 2 weeks for Google(and other Search Engines) to index the changes you made on your site and re-evaluate its position.
Please note, that the fact that you use SEO PowerSuite tools doesn't guarantee, that you will rank high immediately. These are just tools to help your SEO, when used properly can become a real treasure for you.

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#3258 2012-06-22 04:15:12 Luigi Sghinolfi

Hello Dan,
congratulations for your document, I'm trying to follow him step by step and understand how to measure simultaneously the results of each action.
Having a number of my sites, and wanting to improve the rank of one of these, the most recent, I spoke in this way:
1) I made ​​bidirectional by unidirectional links from sites with higher rank and more in the old entrance to this new more (eliminating the reciprocal).
2) I entered TITLE and DESCRIPTION on the individual links, different from site to site.

Now, my question is this:
as I do, with the tools of Spyglass, rank or other to measure the impact of my change?
How soon do not you wonder why there is to know the answer;-)

Thx
Luigi

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#3100 2012-06-05 03:36:24 Bill Murray

Great information, Very helpful.

Ps..Looking to do link exchange with others.


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#2431 2011-09-24 01:34:12 Michael Williams

If you've made the mistake of buying bad links, can you overcome them with quality ones?

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#3455 2012-08-06 06:24:39 Dan Richmond

Hello Michael.
Sure,you can always combat bad links with high quality links.

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#2286 2011-07-10 09:12:16 jobs by work

can any body tell me how to get quality backlinks

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#3169 2012-06-13 10:37:04 Elizabeth Isaac

This is a work that you need to define by yourself.Think about tactics and strategies and you will find the answer.

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#2021 2011-05-27 13:10:51 Clark Heintz

My comment is coming in since Google has majorly cracked down on link farms a couple months ago. My question is, we have done everything on the up-and-up to optimize our website for search engines. We've been really careful about who we link with; I don't want to incur any penalties, so it's worth it to me, even it takes some time. After some Hubspot courses, I'm finding the only thing remaining is acquiring backlinks. And how do we get reputable websites to link to us? We do have several contacts in the industry with whom wer'e linked, however, we want to keep ramping it up. Any suggestions?

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