Is it better to have backlinks from domains with medium DA, UR, using same language and good relevancy, or backlinks from domains with high DA, UR but using another language and with less relevancy?
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Dear all,
while I understand that quality backlinks with high DA, UR, same-language and relevancy would be best, would backlinks with high DA, UR but less relevancy and using languages other than the one used in my website be something good? Or would they do more harm than anything else and still be outcompeted by backlinks with lower DA, UR but same language and/or more relevancy?
Thank you
Frank
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Hey there,
The same-language relevant-content backlinks are by far more valuable. You can grab a couple high DA links with less relevancy, even diff languages, as long as it's not in an extremely spammy way or overdone. Ex - the article is about mountain passes in Russian and suddenly you link to your site saying "Buy cheap laptops".
Usually try to only link to your domain with no specific anchor text other than the domain name ex: MOZ.com .This way it can provide some value, but not look spammy. The key is not to do stuff that Google can track as a spam pattern and penalise you. Everything else can be helfpul. Have a look at this rather older but still very much true / valid Whiteboard Friday vid:
https://mza.bundledseo.com/blog/high-value-tactics-futureproof-link-building-whiteboard-friday
Hope this helps
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