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  • Does 1 good link outperform tens of shit links?

    Posted by seohelper on January 28, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    I’m new to SEO and I’ve been curiously examining the backlink profiles of several websites in certain niches using various tools (SEMrush etc). What I’ve noticed is that some pages that rank on page 1 might have 70 links pointed to them, but those 70 links are 95% or even 99% garbage links from non-authoritative sources.

    I guess my question is whether getting one solid link from an authoritative source would be enough in Google’s eyes to outperform pages with lots of crappy links pointing at them? This is really a question designed to inform my off-site SEO knowledge. It seems like you can kill it with off-site SEO by focusing on quality over quantity of links…would this be a correct assumption?

    Striking_Coffee_9921 replied 3 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 19 Replies
  • 19 Replies
  • Spring555

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Quality is always the main factor. And yes you can outrank with lower amount and higher quality

  • bryzerp

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 1:31 pm

    Quality over quality. Pitch HARO to boost your brand and traffic. Better yet, use Sourcery! https://linksourcery.com

  • Due_Training_9782

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 2:25 pm

    Absolutely yes!

    In my local lead gen biz I’ve outranked sites that have thousands of crappy links with as little as high decent high quality links.

    What really helps is links from relevant sites as well. This tells Google your site is related to the niche as why else would they link to you.

    E.g. a carpet cleaning site linking to your carpet cleaning site…

  • Striking_Coffee_9921

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 2:39 pm

    Linkbuilding is pretty much dead in 2021 according to my linkbuilder. You can have hundreds of mediocre links and be outranked by another site with only one good link and quality content

  • stillyoinkgasp

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    Yes.

  • gregb_parkingaccess

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 3:02 pm

    What if a high DA sites sends you traffic but no dofollow link – i.e. referral traffic or from a widget?

  • Tuplad

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 3:06 pm

    Of course not. While you’re thinking about high-quality links, some Indian is literally blasting 1 dollar links and 50$ fiverr GSA packages and getting thousands of dollars monthly.

    No, 1 link does not outperform 10.

  • F5_Studio

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 4:14 pm

    No, that’s not how it works.

    Nobody knows (even Googlers) how algos identify and evaluate links and sources. For example I added to my privat blog about football (soccer) link from a page about React.js. Will it be irrelevant, spammy, bad for a page about React.js? I would like to write ‘It depends on” but I prefer to write ‘No, it won’t’. It is the Internet and we all need to link our pages. Why do we need links? The answer is simple: discovery, crawling, indexing, and it helps people to find additional information.

    But we all know that Google spam-team can identify the way that you used to build links. In other words it is important for Google **how** you built links.

    I know, many SEOs will be mad if I write it. But you need to knw the truth “If you don’t know how to optimize without backlinks, you don’t know SEO”.

  • Softredelper

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    Yes absolutely.

  • socialmediahammer

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 4:39 pm

    Yes and no. First is a shit link (1) a link on a page with 50 other links from a shit spam site? Or is it (2) a link on the home page of a website with low domain authority and maybe 1000 words of content site wide – but still a legit site?

    If we are talking (2) and you are only competing locally with low competition, 10 links from (2) type sites will give you more link text variety and ability to rank for multiple searches.

    Links from (1) are not worth putting much effort on.

  • LewisSEOColumbus

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Yes absolutely, Relevance is also a factor. If you are wanting to rank locally citations are important but its also important to get links from other sites in the area.

  • GifterWorld

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    Although I’m not an expert, I was getting regular links and they weren’t doing much. Then I received a really great link and suddenly google started to increase my ranking. It could have just been a coincidence due to timing but it seemed to help.

  • SecondOnlineIncomes

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    Quality is always the first , if you want long term rankings.

    And one link from authority site in general niche

    And one link from relavant niche site with just a little authority

    From the above 2 I select second one. I see results from the second option .

  • boycottInstagram

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 7:03 pm

    Yes…. But the difficulty is defining a good link 🙂

  • kickit

    Guest
    January 28, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    one good link is worth hundreds/millions/infinite shitty links

    which would u rather have, one link from nytimes.com or a million links from .tk . xyz and .ru domains? how about from guest post mills? (if u can’t identify a gp mill on sight u shouldn’t be doing seo)

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