Comments on: Analyzing Backlinks: How Many Do You Need?

By: Marathi Matrimonial

Marathi Matrimonial — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:35:54 +0000

See, i got 50 links from one single website, though my page rank has not changed, after google updated links, once in 2-3 months, my ranking has improved from 21st to 18th i.e. on 2nd page.

So, multiple links from single domain are considered good.\\

By: Ganesh @ Matrimonial Sites

Ganesh @ Matrimonial Sites — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:32:37 +0000

my experience says multiple backlinks from same domain still carry lot of weight.

i did analysis of many domains related to my industry and found that a domain which has 1700 links from single domain and just 13 links from unique domain has PR 4.

Ganesh

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:04 +0000

Hello and thank you for the video. I tested it with yahoo the way you explain but only a couple of links showed whereas I know I have submitted and had published several more articles in different directories. So in that case, why are they not showing as links? Any ideas please?

By: Jackie Lee @Internet Marketing Strategy for Beginners

Jackie Lee @Internet Marketing Strategy for Beginners — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:41:39 +0000

Just wondering how important the page rank of the site you are linking from is. Having a “discussion” with a lady on twitter about this.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:39:12 +0000

Thank you Alex Glad to hear!

By: Alex Beevers

Alex Beevers — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:01:35 +0000

Lynn Terry,
You have great information which I know will help many people increase their backlinks.I have picked up some pearls of wisdom from your posts and I really thank you.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:05:52 +0000

The short answer is: just use Yahoo. They are the only reliable source for current number of backlinks.

By: Arif

Arif — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:48:08 +0000

I want to ask you why backlink from different Search Engine is have different result. Why the different is so big like in google I have found 4 backlink, but in Yahoo 381 backlink. It’s happen ini another too like bing, altavista, alexa, exalead, and gigablast.

Please tell me how the works / algorithm of backlink search in search engine.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:47:44 +0000

That’s the key

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:42 +0000

Thanks, Lynn. This is probably a factor working against my site right now, where I have more backlinks than several higher ranked sites, but a lot of my backlinks come from the same domain. I need to work on diversifying!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:57:27 +0000

They each count as a backlink, but duplicate links from the same domain carry less weight than links from unique domains. So if a competing page has 10 backlinks and they all come from the same domain, you can probably beat them with a lot fewer backlinks if they are all from unique domains.

I have no idea the exact science to that, only that all other things being equal – that makes a difference.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:16:29 +0000

I’m finally getting around to reading this series. I had a question on analyzing the backlinks of competitors. When you say to count multiple links from the same domain as a single link, is that literally for all links from that domain, or all links from the same page in that domain?

For example, would the following two backlinks count as one or two?
http://www.doglovers.com/labradors.html
http://www.doglovers.com/poodles.html

Thanks so much for this very helpful material!
Doug

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:14:17 +0000

Hi Tracy,
If it’s a blog and you left a comment there, they may have a plugin in the sidebar that features recent comments. That would create a sitewide link back to your URL that you left in that comment.

I’ve seen that a lot lately. Those plugins should really use the NoFollow attribute to avoid that flood of links, and the immediate disappearance of such a large number of links (when your comment moves off the widget).

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:44:39 +0000

Lynn, I’m working on a new computer w/o speakers at the moment so I watched some of the video but haven’t listened. I checked my main url in Site Explorer and have a few hundred inlinks (not from my site). I’m confused about how I have come to have sooo many from a couple different sources. When I clicked on the link I didn’t see any sign that I had been there…no comment, etc.. I have rec’d the newsletter from these sites and have left at least one comment on one of these sights … can you explain how I’d have inlinks from pages that I probably never linked to? Just curious. Trying to understand how this SEO stuff works. Thanks!

By: dj adelaide

dj adelaide — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:46:11 +0000

a lot simpler than i thought it would be, thanks for the info!