Links from same site?

How significantly will it help my Google rank if I have a lot of backlinks from the same site? What if each of the pages on that site that links to me has either PR4-PR5? Would it be better to expand my backlinks on that site or find PR0-PR1 pages from various sites that link to me?

Lots of people believe that domain popularity is much more important than link popularity. In other words it is more important to have a number of different domains linking to you than to have a number of links on different pages of a single domain.

But that is a much too simple way to think. The topic of the page that your links are on are very important. Plus the quality of the website is also important.

All factors being equal I would rather have 20 links from 20 different domains than 200 links on different pages of the same domain. The only way that I would deviate from this is if the one site that the links would be on was a really important website - such as loc.gov.

Yeah I agree with Egol , even though one site may give you 100 backlinks it is still only 1 vote of confidence, get as many seperate sites as posible to link to you.

What about low PR sites? For instance, PR0-PR2? Will they decrease my ranking if I'm PR3?

All anchor text links help your rankings, links from PR0's are fine just make sure you get some high ones to link to you as well!

No, if they are legitimage links and spiderable they will help your rankings.

Can you please define "legitimate links?"

I accidentally just created a blogspot blog, filled it up with keywords, and linked my site. I'm afraid Google might penalize me for this practice; although, I've only done this once, and the content on the blogs were readable paragraphs despite the fact that keywords appeared every other sentence.

Google won't penalise you, but that work was worthless. You could have spent that time writing a nice article and posting it on your web site. I think you have a good idea of legit links, you're just asking to be an a$$

LIsten, good links = relevant, clean, on topic, high PR links, (not even always high PR). Those are good links.


P.S. Why is it that EGOL says one thing and BAM rep and 'oh yes EGOL i agree'. Are we a bunch of sheep here? DOesn't help the learning process when you don't scrutinze....

p.p.s. I agree with what EGOL said.

Slightly harder question.

Whats the choice between a 5 -10 high quality contextual links from the a single relevant site and, 10 -20 low quality links from different none related sites?

It depends on how high and how low is the quality of those sites and pages.

But, I would rather have one really strong vote from a related site on 5-10 topic related pages than 10-20 links from linkpages with no content even if from related sites.

Then, I would go for the other related site and try to get 5-10 high quality links from it as well. And so on...

It is very slow, but I think in Google's eyes it is much better to get one good vote at a time than plenty of bull****s.

i would go for the high quality.

What if the site linking to you is unrelated but the page on that site that links to you is related?

For instance, you have a site on dogs. A site on cats that includes a page about dogs links to you. Cats and dogs generally fall in the same category, so will this help at all?

Hmm, look for related site and related pages!!! This is the only good approach.

you are taking risk:

if one day google deindex or ban that site then you will get none backlinks at all

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