How to find high PR & Domain authority websites to build links?
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Hi Guys,
Please can you help me if you can.
How to find high PR & Domain authority websites to build links? I really want to learn as much as I can from link building, but I am not sure how to find out how to find high PR websites to build links from..
Can any help me??
Thanks
Gareth
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Hi Wayne
Thanks for the response - to be honest there about 15 websites all in different industries and sectors..
We want to find a reliable company (possibly India as we have heard they are cheap to outsource too) this is because mainly of the time it takes to outsource all of the link building...
If you do know of any companies please can you let me know ?
Thanks
Gareth
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Is that any tool where i can just put keywords and select PR and it will fetch the High PR pages
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Glad to help....
With regard to rel="nofollow", you'll likely find people divided on this issue.
I personally believe it is worth gathering these links if they are offered to you, as I believe they do hold value. In other words, Google may not count the nofollow link as a weighted backlink, but your anchor text and the domain and page authority of the site you acquired the link from is not being ignored by Google. (And rel="nofollow" will certainly never hurt you if all the other standards are acceptable and in line with good practices.)
That said, I'd certainly target the sites that pass value before I concentrated all my efforts on a link from a site that uses rel="nofollow".
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Hi Wayne,
This is all great stuff! It is very hard work, I am glad you mentioned that, and it is easy to get down about it, it seems to take forever I bet..
Thanks again Wayne these are all great learning points for me..
Just one last question, I promise - rel="nofollow" tag does that mean it is not worth building links with?
Thanks
Gareth
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No problem, Gareth.
Yes, Domain Authority is certainly an important element when targeting links, but you also want to keep in mind:
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Make sure there is a defined relationship between the person you are requesting from and your business vertical. In other words, if you sell Accounting Services, don't go after links from a gambling site. It just looks fishy.
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Look at the Page Authority. You want to make sure your link is coming from a page within the domain that also has appeal.
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Check to see if the page has a rel="nofollow" tag associated with it.
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Ensure that your target source is not plagued with a lot of links from questionable sources. (remember, just becuase you see a domain with high authority, something questionable could still be occurring to which the engines haven't caught up yet. rankings are not necessarily reflective of day-today activity.
Ultimately, there are always exceptions of which you want to be aware, but if you stay on the straight and narrow, develop a good acqusition strategy, and target reliable sources, you should do just fine.
It's a lot of hard work, so don't get too discouraged if you find yourself not getting responses from a high ranking site
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Hi Wayne,
Thanks for answering my question. With the http://www.opensiteexplorer.org is it best to target websites with high Domain Authority? For example if a website that has a domain authority of 100 then they would be really good to use?
What do you think?
Thanks
Gareth
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Gareth,
You've asked a fairly general question, but I think the best place to start would be familiarizing yourself with a reliable tool such as Open Site Explorer. This tool is going to allow you to research a websites backlinks, explore reputation in terms of "trust," aas well as the types of neighborhoods the site is assoicated with. It also gives you additional linking targets based on who is linking to your competitors.
REMEMBER: finding trusted sites is not the challenging piece. You need to develop a sound strategy for obtaining these links in an honest, respectful, time efficient manner. I think you'll find that to be your struggle, as we all do
More specifically, can you tell us what type of industry with which you are associated? There are a lot of variables that you'll want to define before you just begin pursuing a link from a website.
In short, start with OSE, it's going to give you a lot of trusted information on potential link sources.
Best of luck!
Wayne
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