Backlink Strategies - No More Home Page Links

What pages should you get your links from? That’s the question posed in an excellent post by Jim Boykin on his personal blog. His suggestions:

Go for the most relevant page.

I’d go to google and search [site:theirsite.com keyword phrase] to find the most relevant page. Relevance is a big factor. If I sell Green Widgets, and they’ve got a specific page on Green widgets, that would be a great page to get a link from.

And go for the most powerful internal page.

I’d go to Yahoo and search [site:theirsite.com]

The nice thing about Yahoo is that they tend to list pages in order of importance. Same goes for a “linkdomain” search in Yahoo (the best backlinks tend to be towards the top of results). This hold true for a “Site:” search with Yahoo. The best “internal pages” tend to be listed first.

Good advice.