Should I Care About Link Popularity?

[ketawabebas]

In general, there's no need for the average site to obsess over link popularity. Yes, you'll want to keep it in mind, and yes you should make sure that your site is what I like to call "link-worthy." However, from my experience (and contrary to popular belief), link popularity constitutes only a portion of most search engines' ranking algorithms. Arguably, Google places more emphasis than most other engines on incoming links at this point in time. How much these actually boost a site's ranking is debatable and truly depends on the site. It also depends on the words that are placed in the anchor text. I have found that just a few highly relevant links with strong anchor text can go a long way towards link popularity for many sites.



For sites that want to take it to the next level and are trying to rank highly with extremely competitive keywords, it may be necessary to actively seek out links from other relevant Websites. This doesn't mean you should go out and create a whole bunch of domains yourself and link them all together because it sounds easier than getting others to link to you. (Yes, that trick has been tried before!) It simply means you should look for sites that are related to your site in some way, and see if they might be interested in promoting your site to their users.



Whatever you do, do not send automatically generated link requests to any site. Most Webmasters consider them a nuisance at best and sp@m at worst. Certainly, a personal email may be welcome, and it also doesn't hurt to pick up the phone and begin a dialogue with a potential link partner. Remember, very often these links from relevant sites will bring more traffic to your site than a high search engine ranking will bring.

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[SEO Shruti]

Very Useful Information.

[Amino]

Thanks for the info. Nice picture too.

[DansMuayThaiMMA]

Link Popularity is a good way to judge how many backlinks you have, which in turn will help your page rank, and SERP. So YES you should care...

[thischarmingmanc]

I both strongly agree and strongly disagree with the opening post.

I disagree as links are by far the most importa ranking factor od google.

I agree by saying that small numbners of valuable and related links are much more important than large r numbers of irrelevant and low quality links.

[my_misyel]

Just always remember to work on related sites to get good back links otherwise your wasting your time.

[franky123]

Hello friends,
Link building or link popularity is very needed for PR. Due to this I do link building for my gambling sites, if anyone is interested to link building with me then send PM.

[Vizion]

Link Popularity have to be increase for a website… but on related sites and yes of course as in new seo term have to consider the dofollow.

[cecille20]

Of course! Because it serves as your good points to improve your rankings in Google. So keep on building quality links.

[micstock]

nice article,it`s useful for me ,thanks for your sharing

[kevinkarl]

Very nice information.
U should take care about link popularity bec it means more traffic & more traffice means more bussiness.
Right

[Ka-canor]

Nice article and we still do create new blog for certain sites that we make just to have permanent link for our site and we still choose more related links for the sites just to increase quality link popularity for our site.Good luck thanks.