Lots of Crappy Links vs. 1 Good Link
April 8th, 2008 Posted by ChanyaSo I finally got the nerve to submit some articles to Article Marketer for my book review niche site. The first article was only distributed to 30 sites but the second article has been distributed (as of this writing) to 1,002 different sites.
Unfortunately many of the 1,002 sites that picked up my article have nothing to do with my niche. For example, my article, which covers a best selling book by a science fiction writer, was picked up by sites like weightlossbuddy.com. At first I thought, no problem. If I get some links from off-topic sites, that’s okay. At least I’m getting 1,002 links. Wrong.
When I click on the “Exposure” button in Article Marketer it shows that Google only recognizes 47 of the links from those sites. This means that of the 1,002 sites that are displaying my article only a very small number of the links actually count. And when I checked out some of those sites I discovered that MANY of them are PR0 sites. And none of the 47 links show up in Technorati.
Now I could probably spend days attempting to obtain a link from a PR4 or higher site. It took me about an hour to write the review and mere minutes to submit it. But how much weight do links from PR0 sites have, if any. If I have links from 47 different sites and many of them are PR0 sites how does that compare to one link from a PR4 site? I know some of you will say “but wait, at least you picked up 47 links. That’s better than nothing.”
Quantity vs. Quality.
Any thoughts?
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I might be able to help you out in the link department.
I have a couple of PR4 blogs that book reviews would be somewhat relevant. Also I discovered quite a few book blogs when I was involved with entrecard. Use their categories and you’ll discover quite a few blogs that are open to networking, etc.
Emma: Wow, that’s so nice of you. I’ve already received one of your links. That’s so awesome! Thank You!
Think of the bright side… Technorati doesn’t care where the links come from.
Dan: That’s true. And thanks so much for the link you sent my way the other day!
I’ve never been meme’d but I’ll put something up on the site this weekend.
Thanks again!
Hi Chanya! Hope you are well. I wish I could help you (but I’m not technical at all in this area - but then it looks like you got some good people above to help out so I’m happy for you). I just wanted to stop by and let you know I was doing another story game so if you’d like to join in, you know I’d love to have you!
I’m thinking that the article sites themselves have high PR and that in and of itself helps. Try submitting the same article to more article sites with good PR.