Comments on: More About Relevance In Link Building http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/ Helping you build search engine friendly websites Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: James http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/comment-page-1/#comment-39 James Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:33:34 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/#comment-39 that makes a lot of sense. i'll stick to my strict linking for now. thanks steve. that makes a lot of sense. i’ll stick to my strict linking for now.
thanks steve.

]]> By: James http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/comment-page-1/#comment-37 James Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:44:01 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/#comment-37 What if you have your auto parts link on a knitting site which has categorised their reciprocal links? Will the SEs take into account that every other link, and the links descriptions, on that 'categorised' page is also about auto parts despite the domain specialising in knitting? James What if you have your auto parts link on a knitting site which has categorised their reciprocal links?
Will the SEs take into account that every other link, and the links descriptions, on that ‘categorised’ page is also about auto parts despite the domain specialising in knitting?

James

]]> By: Steven Bradley http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Steven Bradley Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:12:38 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/more-about-relevance-in-link-building/#comment-38 Interesting question. For the search engine part. I think it depends on how well Google is at determining relevance. If you think relevance will all come from the anchor text in the link then I would say it wouldn't matter what site the link was on. If you think Google is a little better at determining what a site is about instead of just the page then it wouldn't be so relevant. I think for the moment their ability to determine relevance is still minimal and I believe Google themselves says they rank based on a given page and not based on the entire site. I do think they are moving in the direction of determining more about the whole site so in the future. As for the page itself the whole page would be about links. It wouldn't necessarily matter what kind of links, bit the common thread to the page would be links to other pages and Google doesn't really pay much attention to free for all (FFA) links pages. They've become so much spam over the years that the link will most likely just be ignored. As for the issue of a visitor clicking on the link I'd say it's not relevant at all. True the link category might be about auto parts, but it's not very likely that someone looking for auto parts would be in the knitting site in the first place. They might be, but probably not a lot of them. So in that sense I wouldn't think the link would bring much targeted traffic. Interesting question.

For the search engine part. I think it depends on how well Google is at determining relevance. If you think relevance will all come from the anchor text in the link then I would say it wouldn’t matter what site the link was on. If you think Google is a little better at determining what a site is about instead of just the page then it wouldn’t be so relevant. I think for the moment their ability to determine relevance is still minimal and I believe Google themselves says they rank based on a given page and not based on the entire site. I do think they are moving in the direction of determining more about the whole site so in the future.

As for the page itself the whole page would be about links. It wouldn’t necessarily matter what kind of links, bit the common thread to the page would be links to other pages and Google doesn’t really pay much attention to free for all (FFA) links pages. They’ve become so much spam over the years that the link will most likely just be ignored.

As for the issue of a visitor clicking on the link I’d say it’s not relevant at all. True the link category might be about auto parts, but it’s not very likely that someone looking for auto parts would be in the knitting site in the first place. They might be, but probably not a lot of them. So in that sense I wouldn’t think the link would bring much targeted traffic.

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