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garygoh
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# Posted: 4 May 2009 11:03 · Edited by: garygoh
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Will it harm our site ranking if our site has a number of backlinks from high PR site but not relevant to our topic?
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getagrip
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# Posted: 4 May 2009 15:37
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It always helps that the backlink is relevant, but I don't think that it would HURT to have a high PR site linking back to you, regardless of how relevant it is.
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garygoh
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# Posted: 4 May 2009 20:19
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Thanks getagrip for your view. But would it help the site's serp?
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# Posted: 5 May 2009 00:13
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Google tells us in their help pages that no link TO your site is harmful and can never be. The reason is: what if a site had a competitor that was mean and wanted to hurt them? It would be too easy for the competitor to do bad things to you.
Therefore, Google states specifically that no inbound link can harm you ever. I hope that puts your mind at ease.
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garygoh
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# Posted: 5 May 2009 04:21
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Hi work, many thanks for your advice.
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gridellas
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# Posted: 5 May 2009 07:46
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That was good question because I have never thought about inbound links having a negative effect on your sites.
Good to know 
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rubsync
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# Posted: 18 May 2009 22:44
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I guess that wouldn't hurt.. But it would be best if your getting quality back links!..
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# Posted: 22 May 2009 16:27
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Gary,
It won't hurt but it will help even if the site linking back to yours isn't relevant to your site topic.
Relevancy helps the most but irrelevant links count too.
It might help you understand if I explain it this way: backlinks to your page and to your TLD help. They count as a "vote". The higher the relevancy, the better.
This applies to the topic of the site and to the page within the site linking to your site. It also applies to the wording in the link, which is referred to as "anchor text".
The anchor text phrase helps you rank higher for a given phrase.
Hope I didn't lose you in the details.
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garygoh
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# Posted: 22 May 2009 21:03
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Thanks Newbie Shield for your clear explanation.
One more question here. As you can read from other threads, articles marketing is my key activity.
Just wondering is it necessary to link to each of the page of my website in order for better serps?
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samueldarwin
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# Posted: 22 May 2009 22:19
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As Newbie said, it wont hurt instead it will help. But if a whole lot of links are coming from irrelevant websites, it is a problem.
Sam
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# Posted: 25 May 2009 19:02
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garygoh: Just wondering is it necessary to link to each of the page of my website in order for better serps?
Hi Gary,
"Necessary", no. Helpful, yes.
Understand that others may also eventually link to your TLD as well as individual pages if they feel that your content is good.
So, hopefully it won't be entirely up to you to create all of your backlinks.
When starting out, you should at least create backlinks to your TLD and to a few of your best posts.
You create additional links by using a sig link in relevant forums and a site link in blog comments on the blogs of those in your industry.
This should also drive some traffic and provided that your content is good, get some loyal readers and organic links.
If you'd like to play it a little on the safe side, consider creating an article for almost every post.
You could use different article directories, Squidoo, and a free blog to change up the source of your backlinks if you'd like.
It's a personal choice.
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