Linking Back
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Hello,
I have a blog www.digitaldiscovery.eu and I have been working the link building.
Now I have a few links pointing into my blog and in Google Webmaster and in Open Site Explorer I can see the URL of those websites.
In scale from 1 to 10 how usefull is to have a blogroll in my blog pointing back to those high PR links?
How usefull is this in link-building strategy?
Tks in advance!
PP
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Ok, I got it Jeffrey
Tks for the help
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Just so I'm understanding correctly, you're asking about linking to the sites that are already linking to you? If so, there's no added SEO benefit of linking to them because they're already linking to you. If anything, it could be harmful as too many reciprocal links can be bad for SEO.
As a general rule, I'd say just link out to anything that's worthwhile to link to. Like Keith, I'm not a huge fan of blog rolls, either. Instead, you could just link out from a content page in a context that makes sense.
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I couldn't have said that better James! Far too many SEO's refuse to link out at all and are missing out on the benefits!
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It is advisable to link out to high quality related sites where possible.
Also link out to websites within the content as said about it can be more effective than linking out via a blogroll.
Hope this helps.
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Not all will agree on this, but I say linking out is good. But not because they link to you, if you aren't careful it will look like link exchanges.
I look at it this way, if the content I link to is relevant to mine, authoritative, and will help the reader, then it is good for SEO. Period.
Personally, I don't like blogrolls, I think they are distractive to the reader. I would prefer to link to other content from within my content.
Hope this helps....
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