Should You Seek Back Links From Low PR Sites?
Almost everyone knows that back links are important to a long term search engine optimization strategy, but there is some confusion about just where to go to get them. Well, you don’t have to go far. In fact, Google your most important keywords and add “blog” without the quotes after it. Then start leaving relevant comments on the blog posts.
Yes, it really is that easy, but be careful not to spam the blogs. Leave real valuable comments, not just spammy fluff.
Should you be concerned with Google Page Rank? Not really. Low Google Page Rank sites benefit you too. Just not as much. The key is to build your back link arsenal.
There really are two ways to approach building links. You can go for the high Page Rank sites and leave the low PR sites alone, but there are fewer high PR sites so you’ll get fewer links. But they will be worth more. Or you can build up a lot of low Page Ran k links. Either way, you’ll get to the same place in about the same amount of time. The third way you can build links is just to build links and not think about Google Page Rank. You’ll end up getting links from high PR sites and low PR sites and you’ll build your link arsenal more naturally.
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Everybody wants to increase their website’s traffic and doing backlinks is a proven way to do it though not the only way.
I’ve gone to some high-PR blogs to leave comments, but the comments page has NO page rank (per the Google toolbar). Does Google intentionally do this, or is it a quirk of the toolbar?
The same thing happens with forums – the main site has PR 3-5, but the forum has PR of zero.
Good article. I don’t know why people keep saying that OMG I should not get backlinks from low PR sites. C’mon people!!
Think how a Google search bot would think. You think it gives a rats butt if it comes from low PR or high PR ? I mean high PR helps but don’t get into the technicalities of it. If you provide a valuable service or product than you have nothing to worry about. If spam makes the bulk of your business well then you have other things to worry about.
come on people either way it works fine
At http://mangosteenjuicetestimonials.wordpress.com/ we’ve achieved PR 2 in only about 6 weeks, without doing any linking at all, just via WordPress tags.
When we go self-hosted we’ll start link-building properly.
James Mangosteen Dean
We’ve also posted at a few SEO blogs, at least one of which is “Do follow”.
James Mangosteen Dean
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I agree with the key message here. It’s better to get some links than none and why not a mix of low and high page rank? Life is too short to procrastinate. Get on and do it with a mix of approaches including the blog / forum entries one.
I am a big believer in posting on the low ranking pages. In addition to links, you might just get visitors. More importantly, if a relationship is developed and that site goes up in ranking, you will go with it. It is pay it forward at its best in paying you back.