[susan123]

Hi

I needed some help in creating some backlinks for one of my new sites, so I have engaged an SEO organisation to help me get started.

They have created some 5 backlinks, but I am concerned. I would like to receive some feedback from the experts on this forum as to the quality, authority, Page Rank, ethics, approach that has been employed.

The following link will take you to one of the sites where my backlink is contained:

www.builtinghana.com/ghana-properties/index.aspx?g=buying-the-right-car

The sector that I am in is automotive.

I am very appreciative of any replies received.

Thanks

Sue

This post has been edited by susan123: 15 December 2011 - 04:33 PM

[neil0wen]

Just about the worse kind of backlink you could ask for. No value in this at all.

1. PR NA
2. The website has no traffic
3. The site is not relevant to yours, meaning no click throughs!
4. Website is target is another country, which does not help much in this country!

You need relevant, high traffic, high PR backlinks with a low amount of outgoing links!

[susan123]

neil0wen

Thank you for the reply, I had hoped that I was wrong!

I would still appreciate some additional comments from the experts on this forum, even if it's the same conclusion. I fear this is all going 'pear shaped'!

Thank you.

[neil0wen]

If you have Firefox then you can use Link Diagnosis. This is a free tool that will tell you the value of each link pointing to your site.

[apollo-articles]

You don't tell us your website, so not sure which link is yours?

But if I paid an SEO company and only got 5 PR0 links I too would be concerned.

Sam

[susan123]

I didn’t quote my URL as I was embarrassed as the situation I have got myself in.

Sue

[apollo-articles]

Don't ever be embarrassed about asking for help.

Persistence + research + asking questions + action = success!

[rallport]

So I'm guessing you paid an offshore seo company to do this?

[susan123]

No it was a UK company with quite good credability, or so I thought.

[byronc]

susan123, on 16 December 2011 - 01:19 PM, said:

I didn’t quote my URL as I was embarrassed as the situation I have got myself in.

Sue

Any backlinks at all are good if the context string on the link is correct. It will have some value.

[byronc]

neil0wen, on 15 December 2011 - 04:38 PM, said:

Just about the worse kind of backlink you could ask for. No value in this at all.

1. PR NA
2. The website has no traffic
3. The site is not relevant to yours, meaning no click throughs!
4. Website is target is another country, which does not help much in this country!

You need relevant, high traffic, high PR backlinks with a low amount of outgoing links!

The homepage of that site has a pr of 2 - although that is not a reflection at all of how the page is ranked as there are many many factors that go into it

[susan123]

So re the last couple of posts. This is my understanding of what's been stated:

1. Even thought the actual page has no Page Rank (PR), the home page has a PR of 2. So this does have some value to my site, but it might be small. Is this correct?

2. There may be some value to my site if the Title Tag for the URL Link is correctly defined. Is this correct?

Thanks

Sue

[rallport]

susan123, on 16 December 2011 - 04:06 PM, said:

No it was a UK company with quite good credability, or so I thought.

You're kidding? Where are they based?

HOpe you paid for their cheapest "tesco value" package.

Technically that backlink holds zero weighting. Also, it is of zero use to a potential user. Would be more beneficial if it didn't exist.

[rallport]

susan123, on 17 December 2011 - 08:55 AM, said:

So re the last couple of posts. This is my understanding of what's been stated:

1. Even thought the actual page has no Page Rank (PR), the home page has a PR of 2. So this does have some value to my site, but it might be small. Is this correct?

2. There may be some value to my site if the Title Tag for the URL Link is correctly defined. Is this correct?

Thanks

Sue

It's all about context and quality of the baclink. Getting a link from a porn forum for my web development blog wouldn't help me. Getting a link from another respected blog would help a lot more - more value would be passed on because the niche's are very similar and users clicking on the backlink would be much more targetted - as they would already be on a web development blog.

When you;re getting reports back from your SEO company ensure you don;t get passed off with you've had an extra 10k unique visitors this month. It means nothing. YOu need to be asking how many of those visitors were actually potential customers, who didn't instantly bounce off (or leave) your website and had a good chance of converting - or buying something/contacting you.

I digress

Getting quality backlinks is only half of SEO. If your site isn't optimised to convert visitors into customers then all the backlink work will be useless. I had a bit of rank about this on my blog - CRO for SEO Any SEO company worth it's salt should be performing CRO alongside any backlinking.

[neil0wen]

byronc, on 16 December 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

Any backlinks at all are good if the context string on the link is correct. It will have some value.

No, not really!

For example if I got a PR3 site linking to mine and it had 10 outgoing links, then my site would gain point something of a percent value to my site as the value would be divided amongst those outgoing links, which may help in a small way.

If I got the same from a website that was a PR NA then I would probably need a hundred million of these to do the same as a PR3 website, which is useless and a total waste of time!

On top of this, I would gain no traffic through those links!

[Cristebo]

Almost all baklinks are good. This that you have received is good - having the value of 1 ...from a good backlink scale from 1 to 10...but is not a backlink which can represent a reputable SEO company

[rallport]

Cristebo, on 21 December 2011 - 09:38 AM, said:

Almost all baklinks are good

If anything, the majority of back links people get are crap.

[rallport]

SeoInVogue, on 21 December 2011 - 11:37 AM, said:

The number of outbound links seem to be very reasonable on the page where your link is placed.

So you'd class it as a semi decent link?

[neil0wen]

SeoInVogue, on 21 December 2011 - 11:37 AM, said:

As long as the website is having some good content and the theme of the website is related to your website there is no problem, even if there is no PR.

Your right, there is no problem, but there is also no benefit!

"PageRank conferred by an outbound link is equal to the document's own PageRank score divided by the normalized number of outbound links L( ) (it is assumed that links to specific URLs only count once per document" - Wikipedia