Tim's video on back links....

[addlet]

In reference to Tim’s back link video


An IM Guru is currently preparing a launch for a backlink service.
This comprises of a list of high Page Rank blogs with “do follow” status.

He is guaranteeing that the pages where you comment on and thus where you put your back link are Page rank 2 and 3 with some as high as PR 5

What I do not understand is that Page Rank usually comes over time I thought. So how can a blog, even if the blog url has a high page rank, have the comment pages or the threads created where you leave your comment have a high page rank?

My other question is if you do find a blog with an extremely high url page rank but their comment pages have not page rank, do gain anything by leaving a back link on that comment page as opposed to just leaving a comment (and back link) on just any old blog …(as long as it is not a spam blog)

[The Mysterious Marketer]

"What I do not understand is that Page Rank usually comes over time I thought. So how can a blog, even if the blog url has a high page rank, have the comment pages or the threads created where you leave your comment have a high page rank?"

It just means that the blogs he is using are aged blogs that have been around for a long time... And, it's not uncommon for pages to have high page rank.

[carrick]

I'm actually very surprised Tim and Anthony are recommending this service! Though it does have some value there are a whole bunch of problems with this:

- You dont actually GET anything concrete. All you get is a list of do-follow high PR blogs where you can then TRY to get a backlink (you can do this yourself pretty easily - granted you would have to spend a lot of time to get the volume of potential blogs the service offers)
- You still have to manually read each postpage, write up a good comment and HOPE it gets approved and HOPE the backlink sticks for any length of time - this will be time consuming and tedious and can have a low success rate
- You are NOT getting contextual anchor text links based your keywords (you may but you may not get to control your anchor text depending on the particular blog) which are the most valuable type of backlink (assuming PR and do-follow are the equivalent)
- You are NOT getting backlinks from relevant blogs (or at least you'd have to spend a ton of time going through each one in your allotment hoping to find some that are relevant, and what do you do with the rest?)
- You are NOT getting a variety of backlinks -- these all blog comment backlinks. A good backlink profile includes a VARIETY of do-follow, high and low PR backlinks based on your keyword-rich anchor text from relevant sites


Lastly, the way they've described things in the video, someone relatively new to SEO would mistakenly believe this service is all they need and then be shocked and frustrated when they've spent a bunch of money (and a LOT of time) creating hundreds of these backlinks with poor results. This newbie will end up with a link profile with little relevance and no variety, and limited anchor text control.

Maybe (hopefully) I'm missing something, but this seems to be of very limited usefulness, and for the price, you'd be better off finding these blogs manually. I would tend to defer to Tim and Anthony on these types of things, but I'm just not seeing the value here. Please correct me if I'm wrong!!!


Cheers,
Carrick

[addlet]

You mean ALL the pages on the blog?

[brett]

@addlet... not all the pages, but some pages. And what this service does is find those high PR pages. The comments are usually not on a separate page, but actually shown on the high PR page itself.

They can truly be a link from a high PR page.

[abdur]

the only type of page rank i consider important is the page rank on which my comment ( or link ) is going to appear.