People who write and talk about issues with guest blogging need to focus on the separate issue of low quality drivel, over linking, and spam comments and links. In my opinion, an earned quality, relevant link is fine in these circumstances.
A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying: getting a link from a high PR page used to always be valuable, today it's more the relevance of the site's theme in regards to yours, relevance is the new PR.
Just as the quality and relevancy of sites linking to your documents weighs on the value of that content, so to do the sites you choose to link to. Internal links are a great way to manage relevancy signals and PageRank flow throughout a site, but...
Regardless of how it's done, the result is a large number of pages where creating a quality site experience isn't easily done. All link building efforts should result in links that help build your brand too.
As Google has become more stringent with their algorithm, taking into account poor quality or paid links and notifying site owners about those inbound links that could cause problems, webmasters have been caught in the middle of trying to clean up...
Create a template email requesting link removal that you’ll send to the webmasters in charge of the links identified as low quality. The clean up later on may be worse than just getting high quality links from the beginning.
With Google, link quality and relevance are key, so by being able to attract quality links from authoritative domains in the same niche would be a clear sign that your site or page is relevant. He advises you to consider evaluating your link...
Plus, with only 188 unique links, we might infer that quality has a quantity. All this aside, with an informed link building strategy any link builder will actively seek to obtain links to the preferred URL particularly given that a 301 redirect...
Cutts said this “improvement” better identifies websites using “aggressive web spam tactics” (that have been against Google’s quality guidelines for years) for the purposes of gaming their way to top spots in Google’s rankings.
For a website starting from scratch (just bought the domain last week), it’s important to lay a sound foundation (branded links from quality sources, spread out over time). If you want to do well in Google today (and I dare say, in the future), you...
Obtained many high quality links for their Web site. I can't be as precise with the increase in backlinks (we didn't have Google Webmaster Tools installed at the very beginning), but if you looked at the number of backlinks indexed in Google at the...
When Mark Jackson emphasized this in 2007, he wrote that, "Quality content affects both the quality and amount of inbound links. Does this mean that all you need to do to get good links is to build quality content?
My advice is to focus on advertising space for links that drive quality traffic. These are just a few methods to train your new marketer, aka link builder, in order to draw more exposure and links to your site.
Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam from Andrew Baio at Waxy.org broke the news yesterday of how he discovered nearly 200,000 pages of low quality content designed attract people from search engines and hopefully get them to click on Google...
I haven't looked at any of the sites named in this article, but there's no doubt that many of the new sites are similar to low-quality Amazon or eBay affiliate sites that have long polluted search engine results.
It would depend on the inherent quality of his web page and links to it, they would say. If that's the case, the site will need to seek out some quality reciprocal links from sites related to the topic of air purification to get back on top.
Links may have something to do with it, but so might some of these new "signals" about page quality and content of which Google cannot speak. The company says it takes feedback from many sources, and every report is assessed for how it might have...
My best guess is that the company may be making use of Teoma-like "local ranking" to filter out irrelevant links that can throw its link analysis system off. He acknowledged that Google is making use of some new "signals" about the quality and...
It's a rarity these days to find high quality business information on the web that's free of charge, but Dun and Bradstreet's Zapdata offers it in droves. Profile of Google and how it aims to serve its users, with a special look at comments from...
It's clear that many of the links to LinkingMatters.com have resulted not only from people linking to quality content, but as a way of saying "thank-you" for the report. What about the "quality" of links?
