Comments on: Link Building Basics: Why your link strategy sucks http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/ Algorithm analysis, Web community relationship analysis, SEO practices and techniques, industry news, etc. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:48:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matt http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 matt Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:27:44 +0000 http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/#comment-1566 Some very good points. Don't forget what the web is about. Linking should be about the information - not about you. Google is trying to make you honest, so don't stuff it up as you will pay for it in the end. Some very good points. Don’t forget what the web is about. Linking should be about the information – not about you. Google is trying to make you honest, so don’t stuff it up as you will pay for it in the end.

]]> By: Michael Martinez http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Michael Martinez Mon, 07 May 2007 05:50:41 +0000 http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/#comment-61 cat1sun wrote: "Okay please don’t laugh at my question, but what do you mean by PR 0 and PR 8?" People refer to the Google Toolbar's "PageRank" valuation by "PR". A page that shows a Toolbar PageRank of 0 is considered by many people in the SEO community to be fairly worthless, and most link-chasers won't ask for or swap links with a site that gets a PR 0. While I heartily recommend that people NOT install the Google Toolbar or use any other tool that reports the 0..10 PR values, if you cannot restrain yourself from engaging in fruitless, time-wasting endeavors like looking at Toolbar PageRank, then at least remind yourself on occasion that a page which has a PR 0 today may have a PR 4 or 5 in a few months. Not that the Toolbar PR tells you anything useful anyway. It's only a derivative or proxy value published long after the actual value was incorporated into Google's system. And since Google does not determine the order of its search results by PageRank anyway (the "Page" in PageRank refers to Larry Page), there is no value in assessing what your or anyone else's Toolbar PR value is. Any SEO who even mentions his own PR values, who celebrates or announces a Toolbar PR update, or who in any way talks about judging the quality of pages by Toolbar PR has absolutely no clue as to what he is talking about. You might as well do SEO or judge the quality of pages by the color of the Web developer's shoes. There is no professional reason or excuse for any search engine optimizer to be concerned with PR values at any time of the day. cat1sun wrote: “Okay please don’t laugh at my question, but what do you mean by PR 0 and PR 8?”

People refer to the Google Toolbar’s “PageRank” valuation by “PR”. A page that shows a Toolbar PageRank of 0 is considered by many people in the SEO community to be fairly worthless, and most link-chasers won’t ask for or swap links with a site that gets a PR 0.

While I heartily recommend that people NOT install the Google Toolbar or use any other tool that reports the 0..10 PR values, if you cannot restrain yourself from engaging in fruitless, time-wasting endeavors like looking at Toolbar PageRank, then at least remind yourself on occasion that a page which has a PR 0 today may have a PR 4 or 5 in a few months.

Not that the Toolbar PR tells you anything useful anyway. It’s only a derivative or proxy value published long after the actual value was incorporated into Google’s system.

And since Google does not determine the order of its search results by PageRank anyway (the “Page” in PageRank refers to Larry Page), there is no value in assessing what your or anyone else’s Toolbar PR value is.

Any SEO who even mentions his own PR values, who celebrates or announces a Toolbar PR update, or who in any way talks about judging the quality of pages by Toolbar PR has absolutely no clue as to what he is talking about. You might as well do SEO or judge the quality of pages by the color of the Web developer’s shoes.

There is no professional reason or excuse for any search engine optimizer to be concerned with PR values at any time of the day.

]]> By: cat1sun http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-59 cat1sun Thu, 03 May 2007 19:38:28 +0000 http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/#comment-59 Okay please don't laugh at my question, but what do you mean by PR 0 and PR 8? I enjoyed your article it is very relevant to my daily agonising on linking- thanks Okay please don’t laugh at my question, but what do you mean by PR 0 and PR 8?
I enjoyed your article it is very relevant to my daily agonising on linking- thanks

]]> By: visio http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-58 visio Wed, 02 May 2007 17:39:34 +0000 http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/link-building-basics-why-your-link-strategy-sucks/#comment-58 Some good points here! I am glad to see some other people writing some long in-depth thought-out articles. Alot of the stuff that comes out lately is less than thought-out or useful. Keep up the good work! Some good points here! I am glad to see some other people writing some long in-depth thought-out articles. Alot of the stuff that comes out lately is less than thought-out or useful. Keep up the good work!

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