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LunchBox
08-04-2009, 05:52 AM
Greetings,

For my question my website is called www.helpmypc.com (not a real site)

I know that a back link is a link in a different website that points to my.

Such as placing in my signature my web site. When crawled by search engines the link will point back to my site which is supposed to help with rankings. Yes, I know there are many variables even though this is a tiny bit of the whole pie by question stands

Which of two back links is the correct one?
If both are good to use which is better or does it matter

under my signature or if mentioned in a blog etc

www.helpmypc.com

or

Orange County Laptop Repair (http://www.helpmypc.com)

Any advise on back links will help also. I have done plenty or reading and I am now trying to grasp back links in terms of it they help (if any in the scheme of things)

Thank you once again my trusty friends.
LunchBox
08-04-2009, 09:19 PM
WOW, just bumping incase the day time folk can give me a hand
cmonova
08-04-2009, 10:01 PM
The 2nd one is fine, suits the same purpose for backlinks.
greggh
08-05-2009, 01:13 AM
The second one is right. The search engines need to know what keywords that link is associated with, not the url. They already know the url, its in the link. You always want your links to your site to include the keywords you want to lead users to you.
LunchBox
08-05-2009, 06:28 AM
WOW today I hit the jack pot. Snake's on the thread about technibble having great SEO comment plus this really helps alot

Thank you
TimeCode
08-05-2009, 07:03 AM
The second one is right. The search engines need to know what keywords that link is associated with, not the url. They already know the url, its in the link. You always want your links to your site to include the keywords you want to lead users to you.

+1
To Google, what others say about you in their link text (the words that readers see in the link) is extremely important. Other important factors are:

Who says it (What domain the link is on)
What the page rank is
How many websites say something similar
LunchBox
08-05-2009, 07:14 AM
Cool thanks for the additional tips.