Comments on: How Many Links Do You Need?

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:53:54 +0000

That’s up to Google. There’s no set schedule for them updating Toolbar PR. It’s also not anything important to worry about.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:45:56 +0000

Hi. Great information. How many times on a year change google PR?

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:30:08 +0000

I think quality more important too. More is generally better than less when it comes to links all other things being equal. But their seldom all equal and in that case quality over quantity.

By: novelwebdesigns

novelwebdesigns — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:18:42 +0000

I think that is not the quantity but the quality of links. A link with pr 7 can be equal to thousands of links with pr 4. A link carries some authority in the eyes of google so quality links matter. Also i want to share with you that scrapebox is the perfect seo tool for harvesting quality links. Is one of the elite tools in my seo armory.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:39:43 +0000

Alexa rank woud have nothing to do with it and PR is a Google only thing. In general yes the quality of the page and site linking to you has an impact on how well your page ranks.

By: Sandipan@Inkjam

Sandipan@Inkjam — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:24:33 +0000

Does the quality (PR, Alexa Rank ect) of the site linking back to you affect your rankings??

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:49:05 +0000

If you are looking to rank on Google UK, then you will need more quality links from UK sites.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:04:13 +0000

Steven:

I feel there was a good need to point out the links in order to rank well. There have been many stories written and many writers claimed to be best. But wait…! Being in the Industry since January-2001, I truely never seen a better story than this! The way you have indicated things is magnificient!

Last night, I have been checking my rankings for – – – etc, and there has been something I really got wondered. A page appeared from India with no in-links, The website has been prolly new and I checked the Domain WHOis in order to know if I was wrong. But I was right. There have been no back-links created for the website so far, and that Domain was ranking for the SEO Company in all the Data-Centers on the first page.

I agree….. Linking to the quality website mean ranking well in the google, msn, yahoo and all other search engines, but ranking well with no in-links? Ehh

Will be looking your feedback

All the best and have a good weekend

Ciao – Tina

By: home based travel

home based travel — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:38:03 +0000

Thanks for the detailed post on links.
So much to know!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:49:14 +0000

@Jim – 300 links is better than none. Are you sure of how many you need? How many links do other sites in your industry have? What is the quality of those links?

@David – Thanks. I agree. It’s going to be easier to rank for things related to what you’re already ranking for and to improve those phrases that are ranking well. I think you can still find much of the info from your own logs, though showing where you rank for the phrase is a nice touch on Google’s part.

@Rudy – Thanks. I think many of us overlook some of the obvious things that can potentially bringing us quality traffic.

One thing to think about with the cheesecake recipe is does that traffic lead to something or are people leaving right after reading the recipe. If it makes sense you might want to create more similar content on the site. Other recipes for example. You’ve found your site can rank for those kind of queries. Now the question becomes what to do with that traffic.

The saying is a good one. I think it goes beyond moving from page 2 to page 1. I think the saying is also implying the idea that if you rank well for cheesecake recipe you might also be able to rank well for chocolate cake recipe and angel food cake recipe. And as your ranking for all those specific recipes you increase your chances of ranking for recipe.