Comments on: What are Quality Backlinks? http://www.canonicalseo.com/what-are-quality-backlinks/ Learn SEO Free Online Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Canonical SEO http://www.canonicalseo.com/what-are-quality-backlinks/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Canonical SEO Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:49:53 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=156#comment-17 Of course, I would always "prefer" contextual links surrounded by content (immediate before AND after the link) relevant to page to which the link points. And I would "prefer" that link be closer to the top of the page than the bottom. But hey... It's hard enough to get a link from a relevant page with high PR using the keyword phrase for which I want to rank, so I don't want to seem TOO greedy! I'll take the best I can get! ;) Of course, I would always “prefer” contextual links surrounded by content (immediate before AND after the link) relevant to page to which the link points. And I would “prefer” that link be closer to the top of the page than the bottom. But hey… It’s hard enough to get a link from a relevant page with high PR using the keyword phrase for which I want to rank, so I don’t want to seem TOO greedy! I’ll take the best I can get! ;)

]]> By: Eric http://www.canonicalseo.com/what-are-quality-backlinks/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Eric Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:16:49 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=156#comment-16 Excellent post on quality backlinks - a lot of people forget about relevancy and always shoot for high PR no matter what. When acquiring quality links, how much consideration do you give to the location of the actual link on the page? Having read through various other sources I note that some SEOs believe that Google will value in-content links over and above links placed in the footer or sidebar. It would be interesting to figure out just how much extra weight an in-content link carries. It certainly looks more natural and less like a paid link. Excellent post on quality backlinks – a lot of people forget about relevancy and always shoot for high PR no matter what.

When acquiring quality links, how much consideration do you give to the location of the actual link on the page? Having read through various other sources I note that some SEOs believe that Google will value in-content links over and above links placed in the footer or sidebar. It would be interesting to figure out just how much extra weight an in-content link carries. It certainly looks more natural and less like a paid link.

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