unrelated backlink?

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itachi2009

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• Sep 18, 2009

• #1

Search the forum and couldent find anything concrete .. anyways .. does a unrelated anchor backlink help in any way?

For example .. you have a blog that sells shoes. You have a backlink from a farmacy site. Will this weigh anything on my site? thanks

 

wowhaxor

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Apr 28, 2007

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• Sep 18, 2009

• #2

It surely does

 

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ajaygolani

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Feb 27, 2009

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• Sep 18, 2009

• #3

It will surely help you. Getting links from relevant sites is better. getting links from irrelevant sites will help you a little.

 

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squelsh

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Mar 19, 2009

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• Sep 18, 2009

• #4

yeah. relevancy is better. i tend to only go after irrelevant ones if they are high pr or high aujthority, otherwise i go after relevancy.

 

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bluet

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Aug 15, 2008

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• Sep 19, 2009

• #5

Actually it never matter for me. My site have a great rank and i build the backlinks in all the blogs that i could find, so i guess the big G only count the links anyway

 

SuperLinks

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Jul 14, 2008

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• Sep 19, 2009

• #6

Absolutely it would, it'd probably would look unnatural to Google if ALL your backlinks came from relevant sources.

 

Micallef

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Apr 29, 2009

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• Sep 19, 2009

• #7

These are my opinions on the matter based on a large number of prolonged experiments.

Relevant site, relevant anchor - very good
Unrelated site, relevant anchor - good

Relevant Site, unrelated anchor - ok
Unrelated site, unrelated anchor - very poor

 

jamesbelaugh

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Feb 28, 2007

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• Sep 19, 2009

• #8

Micallef is correct although any link back is better then no link back. I tend to get mostly links from unrelated sites although still managed to get top rankings with my keywords.