Backlinks Can Be Both Good and Bad For Your Website

Building up a good list of backlinks to your website can greatly increase your page rankings with the major search engines. But, it can also decrease your sites value if you aren’t careful!

Obtaining a large amount of backlinks in a short period of time, will probably only make your website appear to be spam to the search engines.

There are tons of free directories popping up almost every day, but are these directories a good place to get links? Some of them are, but many are merely nothing but a mass of websites and no content. Your site could end up number 100 in the list and never get viewed!

Backlinks should be built up slowly and you should try to get as many as you can from credible sites with a good page rank. One backlink from a PR3 site, is much better than having ten backlinks from a website that has a PR1!

Many new webmaster’s get caught up in trying to get their site ranked to fast and end up with numerous literally useless links. Paid backlinks are just as bad, when it comes to search engines it’s best to earn your links the old fashioned way!