Search Engine Optimization & Marketing » link popularity http://www.organicapex.com Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:30:52 +0000 en hourly 1 What is Link Spamming? http://www.organicapex.com/link-spamming/ http://www.organicapex.com/link-spamming/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:54:20 +0000 OA http://organicapex.com/?p=110 Link Spamming is the process of spamming other web-sites or web sources with the goal of acquiring backward links. It might be otherwise defined as the process of trying to "acquire links from a source which is not relevant and which doesn’t want to link out". Otherwise, it is the process of over-acquiring links from a particular source in order to increase search rankings without taking into account relevancy factors. Link Spamming results in the acquisition of links which are of low value and less authority. Five Reasons why you shouldn’t involve yourself in link spamming:

  1. The links acquired from link spamming are of low quality, and won’t help too much with Search Engine Rankings.
  2. Link Spamming can be reported by a webmaster or a website owner and you can get penalized for it.
  3. Google will eventually catch up with link spamming techniques and link spammers and devalue such links.
  4. Link Spamming creates a bad example – its almost like your setting a bad precedent.
  5. You are providing bait for others to spam your site by spamming theirs.
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Link Popularity is defined as the "popularity of your web-site in terms of in-bound links and the number of resources over the web pointing to your website". Link Popularity is different from what we would normally claim to be link building, because it is more of a direct result of link building. The Link Popularity of your site is determined not just by the sheet "number" of sites pointing to yours, but rather by the intrinsic value of these sources according to Google. Link Popularity and Page Rank Link Popularity and Page Rank are completely different factors, since Page Rank is more of a number or scale rather than a clear representation of the "popularity" of your website over the web. Page Rank is often confused with Link Popularity for the wrong reasons.

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