Comments on: 7 Criteria to Consider When Building Links

By: Kelli Brown

Kelli Brown — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:39:45 +0000

Hi Mike – great article, and apologies for being late to the comment party.
I agree with all of your criteria and think they are great benchmarks for link building, but I’m interested in how you chose the numbers for PR and DA/PA. I guess I was surprised to see something as low as a PR of 2 as a good thing, and ditto on DA/PA of 20. Are we setting our link building sights too high? I’m wondering if we’re being too snobby in our link building efforts. Thanks!

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By: Gyi Tsakalakis

Gyi Tsakalakis — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:55:15 +0000

Thanks for this Mike. Good reminder. I also concur on ‘nofollow’. If they’re in GWMT, Google’s keeping track.

By: Len

Len — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:50:20 +0000

I’ve been following your blog posts via linked in for some time now. I am just learning SEO and find everything you guys are saying to be of value. I have been building .edu links via responding to peoples blogs where I have found information related to my real estate topic. Question to you is that by responding on VM’s blog here do I gain SEO juice from VM as well?

I have also heard that one should put their keyword in place of their name so that that keyword is linked to the site. Is that true? I don’t do that cause it seems like that is sort of gaming Google a bit and that most admin’s would just delete the comment because they see that you are gaming the system. What are your thoughts?

Like I said, I am new and just learning so any insight you could provide would be helpful.