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Question. A backlink from a 10 year old decent site with 37 Trust Flow (per Majestic) and PR5 would hurt or improve SEO if the niches are unrelated?

For example, one site is about hi-tech and the other site is about general health? A backlink would be provided through a post that encompasses both tho: hi-tech + general health (e.g. how certain technology cures cancer, or something like that). Everything else is clean: 1000-word genuine, great, informative, original content, not the spun crap, etc. One backlink + more links to .edu sites and medical journals within the article.

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    It depends if the backlink will be only from 1 page (like an article) or in the sidebar... Also, think about the fact that sometimes only a backlink won't work, you can try writing a few words along with the backlink!
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      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      It depends if the backlink will be only from 1 page (like an article) or in the sidebar...
      Thanks. But like I mentioned in the OP, there is 1 backlink included in a legitimate guest article. Of course it won't be in the sidebar.

      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      you can try writing a few words along with the backlink!
      Not sure what that means. ?
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    Linking relevant webpages is always better than irrelevant pages.

    You can still rank pages with links from irrelevant authority pages but it's pretty tough for Google to look down on a link from a same niche webpage (long term links).

    Organic traffic builds links to webpages that are relevant.
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Linking relevant webpages is always better than irrelevant pages.

      You can still rank pages with links from irrelevant authority pages but it's pretty tough for Google to look down on a link from a same niche webpage (long term links).

      Organic traffic builds links to webpages that are relevant.
      So technically, even when the site itself is unrelated, if the page (guest article) is 100% related, there shouldn't be too much of an issue?

      In any way, it sounds like it's still worth it though. As long as it doesn't harm...
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    Originally Posted by TLondon View Post

    Question. A backlink from a 10 year old decent site with 37 Trust Flow (per Majestic) and PR5 would hurt or improve SEO if the niches are unrelated?

    For example, one site is about hi-tech and the other site is about general health? A backlink would be provided through a post that encompasses both tho: hi-tech + general health (e.g. how certain technology cures cancer, or something like that). Everything else is clean: 1000-word genuine, great, informative, original content, not the spun crap, etc. One backlink + more links to .edu sites and medical journals within the article.

    Thoughts?

    Thank you.
    Backlinks on unrelated niche is just waste of time. The visitors may come but they would not 'stick' to your website.
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      Originally Posted by centralseo View Post

      Backlinks on unrelated niche is just waste of time. The visitors may come but they would not 'stick' to your website.
      It's for the purpose of raising authority, not driving traffic.
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    Originally Posted by TLondon View Post

    Question. A backlink from a 10 year old decent site with 37 Trust Flow (per Majestic) and PR5 would hurt or improve SEO if the niches are unrelated?
    Will it hurt SEO? Definitely not. A search engine would have no reason to penalize a site for an incoming link just because it viewed the the main focus of the two sites unrelated. There are too many reasons that an article on a site might contain a link to another site. For example, IBM through its Watson team, used cognitive technology to generate the recipe for Bengali Butternut BBQ Sauce. Who would think that BBQ sauce and computers were related.

    Will it help? Probably a little but not much. First of all, no single link is going to help much. Second, while no one really knows the search engines' algorithm's factors and their relevant weights, it is a commonly held belief that incoming links from relevant sites are given more weight that links from unrelated sites.
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