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What is Link Popularity?



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What is Link Popularity?

What is Link Popularity?

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Tommy Matalino
What is Link Popularity?

as the name suggests, it's the popularity of your link. The more visits or clicks it get, the more popular it is.



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Tommy Matalino
^So, how can you know if a link is popular of not?



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mattchauhan
Link Popularity means how many sites are pointing towards a particular site.
It is basically the number of inbound links to a particular site.



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oliver321
Link popularity refers to the number of external hyperlinks pointing to a webpage of a website. These links contributes to the page rank factor of a website. Link popularity strengthens the inbound links or backlinks.



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Gerneve
In search engine optimization terminology it is the term used to describe the value of a website, where the measurement is based on the quantity of inbound links to your pages. Many search engines, including Google use link popularity in its algorithm when determining where your website is listed in its SERP.



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Shahid
Link popularity is defined as how much a link or a url is popular across the web. In other words, it is number of backlinks for a particular webpage.



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karnimaa
link popularity means many user visited your site and having so many back links.



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Shahid
link popularity means many user visited your site and having so many back links.



How is number of visitors visting a site related to link popularity ? I mean isn't known as traffic ?



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Tommy Matalino
link popularity means many user visited your site

Isn't this what we call traffic?



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Shahid
lol.. That is exactly, what I asked ! BTW, how is link popularity calculated ? and how is it measured ?



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Tommy Matalino
lol.. That is exactly, what I asked ! BTW, how is link popularity calculated ? and how is it measured ?

According to Wikipedia, “link popularity” is a measure of the number and quality of links to your website. It is an integral part of a website’s ranking in search engines. Search engines examine each of the links to your website to determine its value.



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Shahid
I know meaning of it. I was asking how is it calculated What is Link Popularity? I've googled for it, and couldn't find anything relevant on "HOW" part.



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Tommy Matalino
I know meaning of it. I was asking how is it calculated What is Link Popularity? I've googled for it, and couldn't find anything relevant on "HOW" part.

Well, I do think only search engines know how to calculate them.



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Shahid
ok What is Link Popularity?. So, does every search engine calculate it or google has introduced this term and it matters in google ranking ?



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Tommy Matalino
ok What is Link Popularity?. So, does every search engine calculate it or google has introduced this term and it matters in google ranking ?

I know all search engines have their own ways on calculating a site's link popularity. One can be different from another.



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Shahid
So, how can we understand the trick/way the search engine calculate this value ? I don't want to know exact algo, but approximate algo can help us What is Link Popularity?



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Tommy Matalino
So, how can we understand the trick/way the search engine calculate this value ? I don't want to know exact algo, but approximate algo can help us What is Link Popularity?

I don't think there's a way to understand or learn how they work. We might have some assumptions but it's possible that it's not how Google or other search engines do it.



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Shahid
Agree. But the assumptions we are making are not made just like that. It is based on observations made by many experts What is Link Popularity?



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HexonU
Hello Every One !!!!
Join Popularity implies what number of destinations are indicating towards a specific site. It is essentially the amount of inbound connections to a specific site. These connections commits to the page rank component of a site. Join ubiquity fortifies the inbound connections or back links.



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Tommy Matalino
Agree. But the assumptions we are making are not made just like that. It is based on observations made by many experts What is Link Popularity?

But wrong assumptions lead to false beliefs, right?



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shek
In simple words, link popularity is nothing but how much a link is spread over web. If it is spread widely then you get many visitors, otherwise you might see only recurring visitors.



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Shahid
But wrong assumptions lead to false beliefs, right?


You 100% right. But in this case, the assumptions are not made by closing our eyes. It is based on statistics, observations and probability What is Link Popularity?



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MikeQ
The more quality links you build the more popularity you would get of your links, this is called link popularity.



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Beverly
The more quality links you build the more popularity you would get of your links, this is called link popularity.



And, which type of sites provide the best high quality backlinks for you?



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owen100
Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site's relevancy in search engines.



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webclick
When other web sites link to your site, your site will rank better in certain search engines. The more web pages that link to you, the better your link popularity.



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Shahid
It is not always true ! I mean if some unwanted or banned sites link to your site, then I don't think it comes in link popularity. As it will degrade your hyperlink image !



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Tommy Matalino
In simple words, link popularity is nothing but how much a link is spread over web. If it is spread widely then you get many visitors, otherwise you might see only recurring visitors.

But there are times that links get spread on many different sites but you get little to no traffic. Why is that?



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nisha96
What is Link Popularity?

Link Popularity relates to the number of links and authority of the web sites linking to your site.



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kailashseo368
Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to a page on the Web.



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Shahid
Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to a page on the Web.


Isn't that is how pr for a webpage is calculated too ? I mean, if they are similar then why do you need new term ? :|



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Beverly
But there are times that links get spread on many different sites but you get little to no traffic. Why is that?


And, that can be annoying too, especially when you know your link is out there and people are probably seeing it but no one is clicking. And, you wonder why not? :/



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Shahid
it could be because the niche of the site in which you are posting your link is not same as that of your site. :|



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VanessaMeacham
Hi, Link popularity means the number of sites that are linking to your site. The search engines use the number of inbound links to your site to calculate the ranking of your site. The actual number of links to your site is not the only variable used to calculate your link popularity but the search engines also examine the relevance of the links to the subject matter of your site.
For example, if you have a website related to web hosting has 10,000 inbound links, but the source of most of the inbound links are websites that are not related to web hosting, then the algorithm that search engines use to determine link popularity will take that into account, it calculates the link popularity accordingly. Hence, it is possible that if you have small numbers of inbound links but most of the links are relevant to your website then the link popularity of your website and website ranking, may higher than the other websites which have more inbound links than your website but most of the links are not relevant to their website.



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ForumPoster
^So, how can you know if a link is popular of not?



Backlink checker!



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Beverly
But wrong assumptions lead to false beliefs, right?

With SEO, it's bad to rely on outdated information or assumptions. That's why it's always a good idea to read the latest SEO information to stay current on what is acceptable.



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Shahid
Backlink checker!


Isn't the took for checking backlinks ? I mean how will you know your link popularity score using that tool ? What is Link Popularity?



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Theadora
The more links you build the more link popularity your site would have!



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Beverly
The more links you build the more link popularity your site would have!

This was the logic used in link building some years back, but now Google values more high quality back links.



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clerk123
Hi,

Link popularity is a term that refers to how many other links point towards a particular website. The term link popularity also has two different forms, Internal and External, which refer to the links coming from the websites own web pages and from other websites. Internal link popularity means the number of links to the website from web pages that belong to the particular website. External link popularity is the number of links from outside sources that lead back to the particular website.



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Shahid
+1 to beverly post. Also, to addon, not all the backlinks are beneficial. For example, if you are getting backlink from a sandboxed site then google doesn't even consider those!



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anirban09P
Link popularity is a term that refers to how many other links point towards a particular website. The term link popularity also has two different forms, Internal and External, which refer to the links coming from the websites own web pages and from other websites. Internal link popularity means the number of links to the website from web pages that belong to the particular website.



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aditya
Link Popularity means how many links indicating towards a site.



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