shags38
Top Contributor
Hi,
for those that don't know me I only learned what the 3 letters SEO meant a few months ago so therefore I am certainly no expert.
I'm not really sure that there is such a thing anyway
So, So, so much talk is about backlinks. Yes they are important however in my humble opinion there is far too much focus on back links and not enough said about other important SEO factors. Just a quick example - I have a site ranking PR3 fairly consistently (has been for about 6 weeks) - it has 8 (eight) incoming links, 3 of which are from one site and 3 are from 3 of my other sites. EIGHT ...... let me repeat that ....... 2 less than 10 ..... or 4 times 2 ........ or 92 less than 100. This could be an example of quality of links and not numbers but also other factors.
Obviously the site has some other reasonable SEO factors like Content etc ... and .......The same site has over 400 "INTERNAL LINKS" ...... so often forgotten. They carry very significant weight in the ranking algorithms but as far as I have seen in many forums they are rarely mentioned. (10 pages linked to each other to each other equals 100 internal links)
Again, I am not an SEO expert so why am I writing this? Because again today I have seen a post using the term "thousands" - you see it every day in various forums. Being new I want to help others avoid the misnoma of backlinks importance foresaking all else - I went on the backlink trail some time back and left everything else alone because it was all I saw, it dominated most of the advice I got.
So for what it is worth, get backlinks but don't end up with thousands and a still poor ranking site by foresaking other important aspects.
cheers,
Mike
for those that don't know me I only learned what the 3 letters SEO meant a few months ago so therefore I am certainly no expert.
I'm not really sure that there is such a thing anyway
So, So, so much talk is about backlinks. Yes they are important however in my humble opinion there is far too much focus on back links and not enough said about other important SEO factors. Just a quick example - I have a site ranking PR3 fairly consistently (has been for about 6 weeks) - it has 8 (eight) incoming links, 3 of which are from one site and 3 are from 3 of my other sites. EIGHT ...... let me repeat that ....... 2 less than 10 ..... or 4 times 2 ........ or 92 less than 100. This could be an example of quality of links and not numbers but also other factors.
Obviously the site has some other reasonable SEO factors like Content etc ... and .......The same site has over 400 "INTERNAL LINKS" ...... so often forgotten. They carry very significant weight in the ranking algorithms but as far as I have seen in many forums they are rarely mentioned. (10 pages linked to each other to each other equals 100 internal links)
Again, I am not an SEO expert so why am I writing this? Because again today I have seen a post using the term "thousands" - you see it every day in various forums. Being new I want to help others avoid the misnoma of backlinks importance foresaking all else - I went on the backlink trail some time back and left everything else alone because it was all I saw, it dominated most of the advice I got.
So for what it is worth, get backlinks but don't end up with thousands and a still poor ranking site by foresaking other important aspects.
cheers,
Mike
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