Page Quality Factors for Link Building - Relevance of the page
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Do not get me wrong, but if you like to get quality links, you must get them from a related web page. Why? Google (and other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN) aims at giving its users a satisfying search experience on the web, and as we all know, the web is powered by hyperlinks.
If certain documents on a certain topic are linking out to irrelevant documents, this can result in a poor user experience. This is because the flow of thoughts and knowledge is being cut off. Sometimes a visitor will need to look at several web pages to be convinced and feel confident of the knowledge acquired from them. Below is a simple diagram of a web surfer's learning process for a certain topic in which he or she is interested:
It starts when a web surfer likes to find information about Topic "X." If the user does not have any bookmarked pages to look for that information, he/she will use the Google search engines to look for the relevant topic.
When search engines give the most relevant search results, the web surfer will click on that link from the search results page and then start reading. Now if the web surfer finds that information to be insufficient, he or she will look for relevant information by clicking on the most relevant link that matches his or her query.
What is the lesson? If Google does not evaluate links in terms of relevance, it will tend to return pages that are neither referenced from related sources nor linking out to related websites. This will not return the most relevant pages, which will affect the user's experience.
The relevance of the page is therefore the most important inbound linking factor. It directly relates to the user's satisfaction level. The user does not have any SEO knowledge to assess whether the page is an authority, but he does read the content and decide if it answers the query.
It makes sense that the relevance of the page will surely get a high rating in Google's algorithm. Again, beware of paid posts and paid links, as you can easily get links from relevant pages by means of sponsorship. Organic links from related pages get referenced naturally. This means that the link itself is part of the web page's content. Without it, the document cannot stand by itself.
This is an easy distinction between paid and organic links. It is possible to comprehend and read the page's content without the paid or advertisement links. But it is impossible to thoroughly understand the page's content without the organic links supporting it.
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