Are you building alien backlinks?
When you’re starting an online SEO campaign you would naturally want to implement a quality link building strategy. You might then wonder if you need to have links coming to your site only from sites which have the same or a similar theme? For example, if your site is about dentistry, should the links you build be from sites about health, teeth whitening and so on?
We’ve done some testing and found that this is not the case. Google doesn’t seem to impose a penalty on sites with links coming from off topic sites. In their eyes, the more links, the better, regardless of whether those links come from relevant sites or not.
With that said, I think you need to try and get into the mind of Google a little, and imagine what could happen in the future. It makes sense that links coming from relevant, on topic sites will carry more weight than those that don’t . In the future, it’s likely that when websites have links from relevant websites, they’ll be pushed higher in the rankings.
We can’t say for sure but since this is a definite possibility for the future, it would be good practice to start now. If all your websites have links only from ‘on topic’ websites, we think this is a good thing, and will stand you in good stead with Google.
No doubt you’re surfing around the web and will find a whole bunch of opposing views when it comes to this topic but, even though people may think that their site has been penalized because the linking sites are not relevant this may not be the case. The site might have been penalized for another reason entirely. Maybe you have linked to spam blogs for example, which Google doesn’t like, and this might be the reason Google does not like your site.
The fact is, SEO doesn’t happen in a vacuum and there could be a whole lot of factors at play here. It’s actually very difficult to isolate specific variables and say definitively that doing ‘x’ causes ‘y’ changes in the rankings.
Anyway, that’s what we’ve found in relation to quality link building strategies, if you’re keen to get us to apply everything we know to get your website #1 on Google, pick up the phone and call us today.
So link building can be done even if the links are placed on sites that aren't in the same niche? That's cool! Well, I think it's better to be safe and just place links on the sites that are related to the campaign. That's what the Orange County search engine optimization firm does for my site. The people from the Orange County SEO firm who handle SEO stuff for my website give me a list of sites where they place my links, and they're all in the same niche.
ReplyDeleteSince you've mentioned that placing links in unrelated sites can still help, I might suggest that to them, too. I still think placing them in related sites are safer and more effective, though.
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