Link popularity.....backlinks

[real_estate]

Does Link Popularity depend only on the no of backlinks?

[Auliya]

Link popularity pretty much is all your backlinks. It is determined by how many quality links (backlinks) you have pointing to your site.

[sellinggalveston]

Link popularity pretty much is all your backlinks. It is determined by how many quality links (backlinks) you have pointing to your site.

you said it. But I imagine higher numbers are better. I know a quality linkback will be indexed by the search engines, but I noticed on researching sites linked back to me on google... some were smaller sites that might not be thought of a "quality"... Yahoo, google, and MSN have different ways of concluding which sites are "quality"....So some high quality pr sites, and many many smaller local sites.... thats my advice.

[Homesurfer]

Links are not all equal and there is an actual calculation to determine your PageRank. It isn't real complicated, but it is mathematical -- having to do with the actual PageRank of the page that links to you, how many outgoing links are on that page, and some other factors.

Besides that: First, there is the PageRank of the page that links to you. Second, is it actually a "clean" link that passes PageRank, or does it have a special tag, java script, or some database system that does not pass importance to you? If so, you should get traffic from it or the link actually does nothing to benefit you. Third, some sites are authorities and others are not.

Finally, none of that discusses the search engine importance of links and what factors may help or hinder you.

I'm sleepy.