Placing links related to the website improves rankings ?

mini_0 · #1 (**permalink**) 17th April 2007, 01:52 AM

As google says that their motive is to provide better information to people, I think they give weightage to links to related sites as well.
For example many pages in wikipedia have links to .gov or .edu sites like say 20 links per page. This is because wikipedia tries to provide more info to people. And the pages rank well.Has this something to do with the .edu or .gov links on the pages? I know that wikipedia has many back links but I still wonder if the .edu or .gov links have something to do with it.

ritche · #2 (**permalink**) 25th April 2007, 06:21 AM

Yes I think it does. Personally I visit those links that I see underneath after every threads or articles on the forums because it the signature itself creates stimulation and awareness of what the whole link is all about. Catchy words are enticing enough to make every visitor excited to try it out.

mini_0 · #3 (**permalink**) 27th April 2007, 04:07 PM

This is listed as a good SEO technique , as google is tryoing to evade off bloggers who try build links by voluntarily linking each other , creating a farm of backlinks and recirocal links , in order to get up to the search engine rankings . It is now said that google and other search engines will give more importance to the links that are not exchanged . which means if someone puts up a link by themselves on their site without exchanging , that will be given more importance .