This morning a read a LinkedIn discussion on titled “What types of sites tend to generate the most valuable links for search rank?” The discussion was posted in the LinkedSEO group and was started by Tom Shivers. The discussion was moderately popular – 18 comments in 16 days.

While there were no surprises among the responses, I found the discussion interesting and therefore wanted to share… Here is a summary of the points made the group relating to the most valuable links:

• high trust, pagerank, authority links
• .gov, .edu, .org links
• links from aged domains
• links from pages containing relevant content
• links from sites in the same geographic area as your site – helps with geo-modified terms
• links from pages generating substantial search engine traffic
• deep links – directly to an internal page
• blog links – comments or through a guest post

Want to learn more about the types of sites that generate the most valuable links, join LinkedSEO and follow Tom’s discussion.

Have a great day!

@ssiBrian