Few quality links - or many low quality links?

Quality vs amount of links

[henjon]

Hi,

I got a quick one.

What do you guys think is the best way to go at it?

I got a site that is well buildt, lots of good content and easy to navigate (no pop ups or spammed with adds).

Now im working with link building, but in my niche (as in many others) there are lots of bad sites, with bad contents and many ads and stuff like that.
Now many of theese "crap" sites do have good SE ranking and google PR, but as i said, the pages stink to say the least.

Now the question is, should i avoid linking with these crappy sites, regardless of them having good SE ranking and PR. and instead focus on good quality sites like my own and live with way fewer links and perhaps PR. (quality sites are hard to convince to link).

Or should i simply link to any site in my niche that has good PR and SE position and not pay as much attention to weather its a bad site with little or no contentse and nothing but ads.?

Thanks.

[Lobo]

I don't know why people have such a problem working out Google? there is no real trick to it, it is not some kind of mystic puzzle you have to solve in order to acheive a magic ranking?

It's mostly common sense, what if you were google, what would you be trying to do ...

Good proper sites, with good relevent information, being linked to from other good relevent sites..

Good content, regularly updated, been around for a little while and still going and growing..

The mechanics on how you put that together can vary but essentially, if you are producing a site that is doing those things a search engine will want to know you..

To answer your question, quality over quantity + time

[edited by: Lobo at 10:30 am (utc) on Oct. 26, 2006]

[idolw]

i am for:
some quality + lots of bull$hit strategy.

as long as you do not link back to BS sites ;)

[lfgoal]

Get as many links as you can, try to get them from quality sites, and don't attempt to get a link from a site that you'd be skeptical or nervous about linking to.

[PrattTA1]

I agree with Lobo. I think PR is somewhat overrated. Good quality links will always benefit you over have a ton of low quality links.

[kostis]

Low quality links have only short term value

K

[econman]

You need to distinguish between incoming and outgoing links.

I'd stay away from placing any outgoing links to poor quality sites. Google specifically advises webmasters not to link into "bad neighborhoods". Its hard to follow this advice unless you have some pretty high standards for your outgoing links.

If you can find some poor quality sites that will link to you without requiring a reciprocal link to them, then go for it -- little to lose, with the potential for some possible gain.

[floriniri]

first of all it doesn't matter how many links do you have on your site as long that they are unknown to Google

[rj87uk]

Low quality links have only short term value

No long term or short term value.

Quality links work a lot better, please read up on "trust rank".