http://nursingaround.blogspot.com
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Here's my stats for a blogsite I started a few years ago, the backlinks are red in both colums. I was wondering if I could use this website to help give some value to another website I'm working on in the health related field.
I was wondering if I could use this website to help give some value to another website I'm working on in the health related field.
Yes, you can by linking from this site to the new site and how to make relevant links correctly is coming up!
You can't "transfer backlinks" directly, but you can pass their value along by using relevant links to your new site.
Last edited by DeanRichards; 08-08-2010 at 11:44 PM. Reason: clarification
No you can not transfer backlinks from free blog sites. (From other existing sites a 301 redirect works wonders) This is why everyone is encouraged to buy a domain and host, as if your site takes off on a free site, its not possible to transfer the links.
My suggestion: Leave the old site and start a new one. Add a link to your new site from the old one so that people can find it. If allowed by blogspot (I'm not sure) collect an email list so you can inform all your followers that your site is moving. If you have twitter do the same.
How much "value" the links will give depends on how much value Google has given your current site.
Last edited by mmeadwolfe; 08-08-2010 at 11:13 PM. Reason: Clarification
How much "value" the links will give depends on how much value Google has given your current site.
Actually, the value of backlinks is determined by where they originate and also by how relevant they are to where they go to. Backlinks from a PR5 page to your PR0 new blog pass more value than backlinks from a PR1 page to your PR0 new blog because of the PR value of the page where they originate. Some of that value, however, can be lost if the sites are not relevant to each other. In other words, links from a cooking site aren't going to add much value to a guitar site, but how Google does the "relevancy" math is unknown. What can be seen is that you get the most bang for your buck when you have links from high PR pages whose content is semantically related to the content in the posts/pages on your site they point to.
I wasn't aware of the relevancy factor, should have guessed though. Google is full of magic tricks. Thanks Dean.
I did know about the existence of relevancy, but since Google is based entirely on alien technology I don't worry about the specifics.
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