My dilemma with the age of Backlinks

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Had I been given this comparison a few months ago, my judgment would’ve been very biased towards older backlinks. But as you might have noticed, I have been gone for some time and the other day I thought of doing a check on my blog’s statistics after a few months. Sadly, my blog’s PR4 has now been downgraded to a PR3.

I never gave this matter much of a second thought before, but now that I’m starting to, I’ve realized that fresh backlinks play more important of a role than I had thought. Of course, I could be wrong with my assumptions, but if I’m right then fresh backlinks play quite a vital role in maintaining a pagerank assigned by Google.

Nobody knows exactly about the Google algorithms, so we can only assume after testing different methods to see what works. It is more of an experimenting game to know what factors play a bigger deal. I have experimented with my smaller blogs before to see what was working, and mostly it was backlinks from other authoritative blogs.

Moreover, as backlinks from authoritative websites became older, rankings further improved. But, as I have recently seen, those links become less effective overtime and you need fresh backlinks to keep the whole thing in balance. I’m going to experiment some more with my other blogs and I’ll write an update after I see some substantial results.