Quality over quantity backlinks

Just my take, but I think more importantly, your backlinks should be relevant to the content on your site.
 
They should be somewhat related to your niche and they should be in proportionate numbers. Keep in mind that spammed links will only decrease your rank.
 
Hello,

Backlinks are really important for good SEO, but sometime if they are not appropriate linked to a valid keywords, then surely it will decrease your ranks.

Thanks !!
 
To be honest, I don’t imagine that the two corners of the arena, quantity and quality, are going to stop fighting anytime soon.
They are natural enemies. One side argues that having a plethora of links is better. The other side argues that quality is more important.

As with most things in life, the reality doesn’t fall to one side or the other, but right in the middle, - that’s where true success happens :)
 
There is a nice tricky way that you can find a edu and gov sites by searching in Google with these terms.Now, you can easily select the .edu, .gov, KeywordLuv blogs etc. to get thousands of backlinks easily for your blog.
 
Only a few backlinks built from relevant and high authority webpages is much more beneficial compared to hundreds of links built from irrelevant and spam networks.
 
If you're reading an article that says you should be getting .EDU and .GOV links - just go ahead an close that article. This is a really old tactic that has really no relevance in 2018 for most websites.

Unless your website directly caters to a government program, there's no benefit in getting the link.
 
quality & quantity, both of them are important equally I guess. And don't forget the fact of relevance. Thousands of back links from an inappropriate site will get you nothing but a penalty (may be).
 
Quality of your link is important. Moreover, quantity can help you to drive more traffic to your site. You should also have a good content to be able to have a good google ranking
 
It depends on the targeted audience.In all of the website elements, the change has been about prioritizing the human experience of a website. Search Engines such as Google understands what searchers are actually looking for, and rather than return results high on quantity of links or keywords, it’s prioritising high-quality content and delivering to the human searchers material that’s been written by other humans.
 
Focus on relevance if anything. Having a backlink from a 1,000-word guest post in a pupp blog, linking to your puppy product site, will go a long way in Google's algorithm.

Paying for a random backlink in some website, even if it has a Domain Authority of 70+. just looks like spam.
 
Google's core algorithm (RankBrain) is increasingly capable of recognizing spam, obviously-commercial guest posts & paid links.

And it seems to reward quality significantly more than quantity. In 2018, a single real, earned backlink is worth 100+ low-quality "easy links".

This was definitely not always the case. While the risk of getting Penguin-slapped or manual-actioned was very real, it was still entirely possible to rank (quickly) with stuff like PBN's, footer links, and volumes of Web 2.0 links (reinforced by thousands of scrapebox links on the 2nd & 3rd tiers).

Those days are over.

Effective backlink strategies that actually work, today:

* Landing high-profile guest columns / op-eds on industry authority sites
* Leveraging networks like HARO to provide industry perspectives to journalists in exchange for a mention, ideally a dofollow mention ;)
* Helping webmasters fix broken links. With your content as a viable alternative
* Publicitiy stunts & actual newsworthy events
* Doing contests / sponsoring stuff in your niche, earning links (and press) in the process.

And so on.

The most scalable of those strategies is guest content.

Hope this helps

-Chris
 
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