Can someone answer a few basic SEO questions about back links?

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1. I have a youtube channel with a page rank of 5, and a domain with a page rank of 2. If I post a hyperlink on either of those pages, will that help my SEO?

2. Does the anchor text matter when it comes to google ranking my site higher? Like would it be ok if I use a . <//==-- dot to make it smaller and less intrusive on my sites?

3. Do follow just means click on it and it takes you to the site right? It's just a hyperlink? Or does do follow mean something else?
 


1. well i just don't know this one, cause ive heard youtube can be retarded when you link to outside sources. and any outbound link (a link going from your site to another) slightly takes away from your PR. but there are many other things to take into account other then PR.

2. if your trying to rank for the keyword "big widgets" and your doing blog commenting your should use "Big Widgets" as the anchor text. i would not use a "." if you can help it, i don't think it would hurt that much using one, but i would try and use your keyword if at all possible.

3. Do-Follow just means that if you get a link on another site linking to yours, google will pick it up and count it towards your backlinks. No-Follow means google will not pick it up and it won't count. In both cases the link still works and people can click on it and still go to your site. From what ive been told and from what i understand Do-follow and No-follow don't matter at all, people just use those terms to try and deter people from comment spamming them.

hope this helps
 
Thanks, I tried checking my domain on backlinkwatch.com and the youtube channel does come up, doesn't say no follow, but is blank in the section, and maybe the only link that is do follow may be the one listed as my website but the others aren't.
 
For question 2 do you mean using only a "." as the anchor text? That probably doesn't look very natural to search engines if you do it a lot, but using some generic anchor text like "click here" or "my website" or whatever looks natural. But like Fat Tom said, you want to have your keyword in a lot of your anchor texts, with some variation so they're not all the same. "blue widgets" "cheap blue widgets" "blue widgets for you" "hot chicks and blue widgets" etc.
 
no idea what you mean by point 2.
3. dofollow means: I like to link to that site, I recommend it.
Nofollow means: I heard about this site but don't really want to recommend it, I did however mention it.

So for SEO, it's better to have more dofollow links.
 
ALWAYS use the keyword you are trying to rank for in your anchor text. Youtube won't help your SEO at all, so unless you just are trying to get traffic to your site, youtube is useless.
 
All normal links are dofollow. You have to specifically make them nofollow by using rel="nofollow" attribute for the <a> tag. Nofollow links still help for ranking but less than dofollow links.
 
Dofollow passes page rank. Nofollow does not pass pagerank. Both count as a backlink to your site. Get a natural amount of both, and you'll be on the right track.
 
The difference between "do follow" and "no follow" is that for "no follow" links, search engines don't give 'credit' to the linked page for being linked by a PR5 page. However, if the link is "do follow", then you will get 'credit' and possibly increase your own PR.

(FYI there is no such thing as "do follow", just links that don't have "no follow")

Posting a link on Youtube may help bring traffic from YT, but it won't help your PR because I'm sure YT uses "no follow". However, if you link from your own PR2 domain I'm sure that will help your own PR. Don't create a ring of sites all linking to each other to boost PR because google will catch onto you. (if you're not smart about it ;))
 
If your youtube channel/videos get many views I would place a link there if I would be you.
 
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