Many PageRank 1 backlinks or a few PageRank 4-7 backlinks?

[MatthewBOnline]

Hi,

When getting backlinks is it better to get say 10 PageRank 4-7 backlinks.

Or is it better to get say 150 PageRank 1 backlinks?

[DaveMaxwell]

Not that backlinks have that big of an impact on SERP, it’s better to have quality over quantity. A large quantity of low quality backlines can actually hurt you because the SEs may calculate that a game is being played.

[TechnoBear]

It’s best to have lnks from pages with relevant content, where visitors to that page are likely to be interested in your site and find the link of value.

Given that Google has long since told people to stop obsessing about PageRank, and has stopped giving regular public updates on PR, the chances are that any PR information you find about a page will be out-of-date anyway.

[Uniweb]

It depends which search engine you intend to rank for. Bing, Yahoo and Baidoo like low quality links, Google doesn’t.

[TechnoBear]

@Uniweb

Bing, Yahoo and Baidoo like low quality links,

Sorry - that’s just wrong.

@Bing

Links

Links pointing to your site help Bing discover new pages on your site. It also, traditionally, is regarded as a signal of popularity. The site linking to your content is essentially telling Bing they trust your content. As a result, Bing rewards links that have grown organically, that is, that have been added over time by content creators on other trusted, relevant websites made to drive real users from their site to your site. Abusive tactics that aim to inflate the number and nature of inbound links such as links buying, participating in link schemes (link farms, link spamming and excessive link manipulation) can lead to your site being delisted from the Bing index.

https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a

@Yahoo!

Content quality guidelines
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Low-quality content
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Specific problems
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Websites excessively cross-linked with other sites to inflate a site’s apparent popularity (link schemes).

Webmaster resources | Yahoo...

I can’t find an official Baidu site with guidelines in English, but I see no reason to disbelieve this one:

Just like Google, Baidu also looks at off-site SEO factors. Link building is a strong Baidu ranking factor.The general understanding of many SEO professionals is that Baidu doesn’t care much about the relevancy of links and more links you have the better. However, this is not true anymore. They do care about quality links so always aim for them. Build links from similar and industry related Chinese sites to show Baidu that you are important in the industry to the Chinese people.

http://www.baiduguide.com/baidu-seo-guide/offsite-seo/

[ankushmahajan]

What I believe page rank doesn’t matter any more in Google algorhtims. 1 backlink from relevant and high domain authority website is better than 10 backlinks from 10 page rank site with no relevancy.

[arielsoftsolutions]

According to Google 1 earned link(by great content) is far much better than any other links like you mentioned 10 pagerank, 150 pagerank backlinks.

[Uniweb]

Bottom line, search engines do with your website whatever they want to and you will notice less traffic but won’t know why. (Hint: PR became a SECRET Tool). I like secrets in movies but not in my business. Don’t let them fool you!!!

[John_Vianny]

It’s better to have a MIX of them

If you have high PR backlinks and no backlinks from 1-2 it could be catched
as an artificial trick.

Also if you rely only on backlinks and not on blogroll posts, social signs etc…

So build a mix of them, with more high pr backlinks but not only them

[TechnoBear]

@Uniweb

Hint: PR became a SECRET Tool

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Google still uses PR in their algorithm - there’s no secret about that. They still regard it as an important part of their algorithm - no secret about that. What they no longer do is publish regular public updates on PR for individual pages, because they - and the Web - have moved on since those days.

@Susan Moskwa

We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/webmaster-tools/29GtmYDt8L0

Google says they use over 200 metrics to rank a site, but they don’t say what most of those metrics are. They do acknowledge that they use PR, and regard it as one of the more important metrics. So far from being a “secret tool”, it seems to me to be one of the best-known.

[quote=“John_Vianny, post:9, topic:219094”]
If you have high PR backlinks and no backlinks from 1-2 it could be catchedas an artificial trick.
[/quote]Not if those links are organic - sites which have chosen to link to you because your content is high-quality and relevant.

Only links which you have placed yourself are likely to be regarded with suspicion - and then only if done to excess.

[John_Vianny]

yes, but i thought natural backlinking from sites which links to you cause of the relevant content
are not the topic of his question, i thought we are not referring to natural backlinking but which backlinking pr suits better but made artificial

[Mittineague]

@John_Vianny

i thought natural backlinking from sites which links to you cause of the relevant content are not the topic of his question

How so? The OP says
“getting”, “get”, “get”

It does not mention spam links even once.

[TechnoBear]

@John_Vianny

i thought natural backlinking from sites which links to you cause of the relevant content are not the topic of his question,

You may well be right (although that wasn’t how I read it). However, it’s always as well to be clear about things for the benefit of other folks who may come along later.

[tareq954221]

Google like High PR Backlink and yahoo, bing likes low PR backlink.

[DaveMaxwell]

@tareq954221

Google like High PR Backlink and yahoo, bing likes low PR backlink.

Source? That doesn’t make any sense at all, especially since the results from both are usually pretty close…

[tareq954221]

Any backlink in yahoo or bing make positive effect on their search engine but google needs quality.

[DaveMaxwell]

@tareq954221

Any backlink in yahoo or bing make positive effect on their search engine but google needs quality.

Again, source? I haven’t seen that behavior…

[TechnoBear]

@tareq954221

Any backlink in yahoo or bing make positive effect on their search engine but google needs quality.

Did you read my post #5, where I quoted from both Yahoo! and Bing, demonstrating that this is not true?

[felgall]

@TechnoBear

They do acknowledge that they use PR, and regard it as one of the more important metrics.

Yes, the only difference is that they no longer convert the PR into a meaningless number based on a logarithmic scale and publish those meaningless numbers several months later.