During the past week, I dedicated a good portion of my free time doing link building specifically for my homepage and this home business blog. While doing so, I realized that some of the work I did to accomplish my backlinks building task would never have seen the light of day by many others. Others who chose to believe a different opinion from hearsay or a total misunderstanding of SEO. Let’s try to debunk a few of these link building myths to see if their fears are well founded.

Myth No 1.

It’s not good for your site to leave your link on an “inner page” that is new or has a low Page Rank like PR0 inside of a high Page Rank domain.

My thoughts

My recent link building efforts over the last 5 days is one good example and I practiced this. I linked to inner pages of PR0 of high page rank sites of PR6-PR9. After finding about 50 of these links, the result- My keyword phrase ‘online business opportunities‘ moved from 24th position to 7th position.

If you refer to an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts and read between the lines, you could make your own deductions. Here is part of it:

Stephan Spencer: OK. So, I guess, a follow on to that would be: a .edu and .gov link, and so forth, has, typically, a more pristine link neighborhood, so it is not just about the PageRank, right? The link neighborhood comes into play.

Matt Cutts: That is a little bit of a “secret sauce” question, so I am not going to go into how much we do trust that sort of stuff.

Stephan Spencer: OK. I am going to slap my wrist now. Ouch, ouch!

Matt Cutts: [laughing]

Myth No 2.

You must always obtain “relevant” links in the same niche as your website otherwise the links don’t help in your SEO or you will get penalized by Google.

My thoughts

While it is ideal to get links belonging to the same niche as yours, it will not hurt you if they come from non relevant sites. But only if they are high quality sites with high page rank. Google realized that there is no way to control incoming links to your website. If this were true, many nasty sites who want to bring the top sites down and rank higher than them would simply start linking lots of bad sites with them.

Another news worthy incident to prove this theory is this. Remember the day news broke out about then President Clinton having an …er indiscretion with a young intern that goes by the name of Monica Lewinsky? Well hundreds of thousands of very interested readers and websites linked to ‘The Drudge Report’ from the site of the same name. Yes that’s natural linking at its best! I have to say no penalty was ever meted out by Google to this site. In fact it became well known after all the linking

Myth No. 3

If you build too many links and too fast, you will be penalized by Google

My thoughts

I think for the average person building too many links and doing it too fast should not happen.  You’ll need to have tens of thousands of similar links to raise a red flag to Google. That probably fit the profile of a spammer and that’s what Google will be going after.

Myth No.4

I cannot see my backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer, or some other “Backlink Checker” tool, so they don’t count.

My Thoughts

It can take some time before your links show up in Yahoo Site Explorer and backlink checker tools, but most of us know that Google will NEVER show them all to you. My own experience I mentioned above shows no backlinks found in Yahoo or Google but my SERP has improved 17 positions due to my 5 days-link building work.

Share with us your linking experience

Do you have any wonderful (or bad) experience to share with us with regards to your link building efforts. How long did it take to see your backlinks showing up in Google or Yahoo?

Grab The Bookmarketer For Your Site

Did you miss any of these?:

• Here’s 10 Free High PR EDU Links-My Gift To You
• Get Authority Links For Your Internet Home Business
• Are You Getting The Google Sandbox?
• Viral Linkathon
• Internet Home Business-Link Building Strategy-DIY SEO Work Schedule-Part 4