Comments on: The Beginners Guide to Qualifying a Link Prospect

By: Monika

Monika — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:14:57 +0000

You’ve got som great advice in your posts (I’ve just been through all of them). Thank you! I’ve just started up with link building inhouse, and it seems lika daunting task!

Have you had any experience with calling prospective sites for requesting links? if so, do you have any tips?? Would be super appreciative of any advice!

By: Internet marketing

Internet marketing — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:04 +0000

I agree with your list to a point, but in my experience, when link building full time, you don’t have the time to check all the variables you mention. By the time you’ve done all the checks you mention for one link, you could have gained 5 more links elsewhere…

By: Web Based Training

Web Based Training — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:09:50 +0000

I 100% agree with with all you said about in finding a good quality link! I hate when people contact you to exchange links and what they offer is a resource page full of non relating links!! I like my web page and the ones I link with all to relate to one another and of course have a follow and Google recognized, otherwise what’s the point?

By: Online Marketing Blog

Online Marketing Blog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:56:49 +0000

I would prefer the the link from the Pr6 depending on how many links it had. Building links on quality related sites is the way to get better SERPS along with targeted anchor text. Look at me i just made a backlink with a custom anchor text on a related site.

By: Remote Data Backup

Remote Data Backup — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:08:09 +0000

Re the above comment:

The “All things being equal” bit is important. I’d rather a link from a PR1 page which had only a couple of outbound links, than a link from a PR6 page with hundreds of outbounds.

By: Steen Seo Öhman

Steen Seo Öhman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:36:48 +0000

Great post.

I think it’s important to notice the quality of the link also. How much juice will the link pass.There are tools you can use for evaluating the pages as Google Pagerank not always tell the whole story. That being said I would prefer a link from a PR6 page to a link from a PR1 page (all other things being equal).

I use SEOmoz sometimes to evaulate link quality …

By: Remote Data Backup

Remote Data Backup — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:03:26 +0000

I agree – to a point.

If it comes to a choice of getting a link from an unrelated site, or getting no link at all, I’ll take the unrelated link every time.

We hear the search engines talk about “Link popularity” a lot, and I’ve seen unrelated links from sites with high domain trust and authority give a significant boost in the rankings too often to discount them completely.

By: Kai Lo

Kai Lo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:50:00 +0000

Top Commentator plugin works great to get backlinks. Most of the greatest backlinks come from the main page of the site you wanted to get backlinks from, and the plugin will let you get on the main page.

By: Jen Ohs

Jen Ohs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:38:23 +0000

Great Post! Quality over quantity is really the key. Too many web designers don’t understand this and need to read your article. Take the time to make sure that the link is worthwhile, otherwise you’re wasting your time.

By: increase site traffic

increase site traffic — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:18:54 +0000

Great post on link building. It’s true. Quality and Quantity is the key to maximizing your backlinks.