Parameters for going up in the search results

Thank you Tomsk for the link.
But I do not understand what the problem is.
Should I care what other links are there on that website?
I think it more matter what links I have on mine doesnt it?

In other words, I thought G will not like if I have links on my site to some dodgy sites (if I link back to them)
But I though it does not make any harm to me if the websites which link to me also link to dodgy sites

Please confirm where I am wrong

Lina


Forget google and rankings for a second - pretend search engines have yet to be invented.

Your out shopping in Milton Keynes and your hair is a mess and you have a big work do tomorrow, you bump into me and Steve (for the sake of this example) and Steve hands you a flyer which has on it the top 5 hairdressers taking part in the annual Milton Keynes top hairdresser awards and somewhere on that list is Hair by Lina who just happen to be on two streets down from your office.

You move down the street a further 100 yards and I hand you a flyer with a random load of dating sites and some web sex cam sites and a list of adult friend finding sites in India and right next to the list is a local hairdressers name.

Which flyer would say would be the best for your business - how many would I have to give out of my flyer for me to drive business to your site, how many would Steve need to give out to drive business to you?

No go back to google it is designed to spot this sort of difference in flyers - it's a simple as that - 300* of links like the one I pm-ed you may be the equivalent or 1 or 2 links from a trade body or similar *(numbers are for demonstration of the point only)

If you think that the link I have sent is the way forward then I wish you the best of luck

As always just my 2 cents

excellent analogy, I like it

So this means we should never trust those services who you pay to distribute your links on thousands of sites then right?

Would it then be better to remove my link from that website you pm-ed?
That is a pitty because that website has a high PM of 5

According to my calcs it says it is a PR3 site and it only has seven links to it all of which are nonsense so would never be a PR5 - also the domain for the link is hosted in the Russia.

Google "fake google PR" and that will open a whole other discussion.

There are services that you can use for placing a blog advertisements where you ok the blog that they go on.

That said the keywords you are looking for should not take that kind of service to achieve.

Steve and Tomsk both talking a lot of sense.


Quality links are important but so is also ensuring you haven't got deadlinks. I notice they're still dead. I suggest you get a page setup to deal with all the 404 errors.

How will it help?

The links may still be out there and if somebody finds a page which get a 404 page like this...

Not Found
The requested URL /Wedding-Hairdresser-Milton-Keynes-links-Exchange.html was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

...they are very rarely going to start digging around to find the website. Make it easy for people to carry on looking around your website rather than letting them go to find another hairdresser in MK.