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Top 3 Link Building Myths Regarding Google
By BFBpro | July 22, 2008
By Jon Keroack
Myths abound regarding what kind of links will help you rank in Google. If you’ve been told that Google only counts links from pages related to your site, or that Google doesn’t count links from pages with no PageRank, or that Google doesn’t count links from duplicate content pages, you’ve been lied to.
Google Counts Links From Off-Theme Pages
If your web page is related to arthritis, what constitutes an “on-theme” link (a link from a related subject page)? Maybe the first thing you think of is, “other arthritis-related pages.” That’s only partly right. Consider these subjects: swimming, cycling, weight loss, vitamins, different types of fat, comfortable furniture, etc. All of them can be related to arthritis!
The only way for Google to ignore “off-theme” links is for it to understand every possible relationship of every conceivable subject in every language they index. Sound impossible? That’s because it is.
I’ve ranked dozens of sites by getting links only from pages that are completely unrelated to the site I’m trying to rank. Google puts them all on page one, so I know it’s true.
Google Counts Links From Pages With No PageRank
PageRank is completely overblown these days. It’s true that Google used to weight their search results heavily based on the page’s PageRank value, but those days were gone years ago. I rank sites all the time by getting links from pages with no PageRank (or very low PageRank) values.
Think about it this, too: is it easier to get 25 links from high PageRank pages or 100 links from low PageRank pages? Because the myth about PageRank’s importance persists, it’s very difficult to get webmasters with high PageRank pages to link to you, but very easy to get links from low PageRank pages.
Google Counts Links From Duplicate Content Pages
Article writing is huge in the search engine optimization world. Why? Because writing articles that can be distributed to article sites like EzineArticles.com results in a large number of pages linking to your site from all over the web. It takes a lot of links to rank well in Google, and article writing is a popular way to get a lot of links. Each distributed article is a duplicate of the original, and yet Google counts the links.
Of course, article writing isn’t the only way to get a lot of links into your site with ease.
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July 23rd, 2008 at
Thank you for a great article. It made me change my approach to link building partly. I wasn’t aware of the myths #1 and #3. I only knew that the links from low PR pages are also counted by Google.
August 4th, 2008 at
This article is really useful. Overcoming myth number 2 will help me a lot in some niche sites I am about to launch. I do DIY SEO for my sites and get good results in most of them but getting links from related sources is almost impossible for some of them . Google’s algorithm is quite hard to figure out .
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