Link Building and Ranking In Search Engines
Links were the first major “Off The Page” ranking factor used by search engines. No, Google wasn’t the first search engine to count
links as “votes,” but it was the first search engine to massively depend on link analysis as a way to improve relevancy.
Today, links remain the most important external signal that can help a web site rise in the rankings. But some links are more equal than others…. Lq: Link Quality
If you were sick, which would you trust more? The advice of five doctors or fifty people you didn’t know but who offered their opinions as you walked down the street.
Unless you’ve had a really bad experience with doctors, you’re probably going to trust the doctor advice more. Even though you’re getting fewer opinions, you’re getting those opinions from experts. They’re quality opinions.
In the same way, search engines do count all the links pointing at web sites (except those blocked using nofollow or other methods). But they don’t count them all equally. They give more weight to the links that are considered to be of better quality.
What’s a quality link? It’s one of those “you’ll know it when you see it” types of things, in many cases. But a link from any large, respectable site is going to be higher on the quality scale than a link you might get from commenting on a blog.
To learn more about link quality and how Google in particular examines links, see this tutorial from us:
What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters
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