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How many links? Question for an SEO Expert

Brack1969's picture
Submitted by Brack1969 on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 21:28.

I am wondering if google will "favor" my website more (and hence higher rankings) if I get many links from a highly ranked site instead of one.

i.e. I write one article and submit it to EzineArticles, with a current Alexa ranking of 467, and I get one link back

OR

I submit hundreds of articles (original) to EzineArticles.com and get hundreds of links back to my website...

Just wondering how google will determine the weight of one link as compared to hundreds of links from the same high ranking site.

Thanks

Gary Bracken

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How many links? Question for an SEO Expert

Jeremy Palmer's picture
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 22:05.

Good question. As long as the links are natural, more is typically better. However, you have to be cautious of run of site (ROS) links. AffiliateMax posted a great article in another forum about ROS links:

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9) Do not buy ROS (run of site links) if you want to rank well on Google, particularly on a new site. (A ROS link is a link that is placed on every page of a site, like in a footer or navigation bar)

Just recently I had two people tell me that they believe - in fact are almost certain - that due to recent changes at Google their site rankings were penalized because they purchased ROS links from a text brokering service. Alborz Fallah, a mate of mine in Brisbane, noted that after informing Google that he had removed site wide purchased links that were pointing to his car blog, the penalty affecting his site was removed. You can read his story for more details.

It’s well reported that Google is attempting to crack down on links purchased purely for SEO benefits (links purchased for direct traffic is okay). A site wide link is a good indication to Google of the wrong motivation, however it’s not 100% proof, because for example many people have a blogroll that carries site wide links that are not there necessarily for any other reason than as a recommendation of good blogs. In general stay clear of buying site wide links across many sites all at once and if link buying is a strategy you intend to use for SEO, focus on in-content links or homepage only links.

How many links? Question for an SEO Expert

Brack1969's picture
Submitted by Brack1969 on Sun, 03/04/2007 - 06:05.

Thanks for the response Jeremy! Very Helpful!

-Gary

How many links? Question for an SEO Expert

Laura's picture
Submitted by Laura on Sun, 03/04/2007 - 20:50.

Did EzineArticles take off the nofollow attribute? I know that it was in Chris' plans. Otherwise you won't be getting page rank passed.

I write articles for EzineArticles for a number of reasons (Laura's top 4 reasons to write Ezine Articles :lol: ):

  • When you hit a hot topic you can get some nice incoming links from related sites.
  • I like to interview merchants of mine, sites in similar or complimentary niches, or experts and ask them questions that I really want to know in the name of interview questions. :D
  • I had to go back to a day j*b that does at least give me access to resources many lay people don't have, and I can write about them in lay language.
  • I don't want to worry about trying to optimize a page for natural search, it's not a topic I want to market, but it's complementary to one of my sites, so it's good for qualifying traffic and links

However, lately I am weighing whether it really wouldn't be better for me to post the articles as pages on my site. I may start doing both. For one product line, I think I could write a decent article for a lot of the products, so those I'd post on my site. The related items that I don't market (and wouldn't), I'd continue to submit as ezine articles.

Just my thoughts. I'd love to share thoughts on how others decide what to use in article marketing.

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