What defines a bad and good link?

[stick2Herbs]

Hi guys, I know I have a thread and all. But I really enjoy clogging up the forums with 1 liner questions.

Ok, so my question is. What defines a good and bad link? And there such thing as a damaging link?

Is it the OBL that determine if a link is good or bad? Is it the PR?

Halp plz.

 

[greyhat]

a good link is one that 'looks natural' (or IS natural) is relevant to the site, comes from a high PR site and is not user contributed. a bad link is one that comes from irrelevant/unrelated sites or bad neighbourhoods (porn/spam/linkfarms). You can do damage by linking. Read this: Link Building 101 - SEO Chat
And stop clogging up the forum!! lol
HTH

 

[DanWesson]

a good link is one that 'looks natural' (or IS natural) is relevant to the site, comes from a high PR site and is not user contributed. a bad link is one that comes from irrelevant/unrelated sites or bad neighbourhoods (porn/spam/linkfarms).

^^This.

To attempt to answer your other question, I'm not sure if there is a such thing as a "damaging" link, but too many low quality links might have an effect, even though Matt Cutts claimed Google bowling doesn't really happen. I don't trust Google. You can certainly damage your site by linking out to the wrong sites though.

 

[dchuk]

It's more like good vs. pointless links. linking that does damage would make it too easy to attack people. You'll see what I mean about pointless links if you start chucking out thousands of links at a property...at some point, the effectiveness becomes nil

 

[turbolapp]

 

[dchuk]

...The link fairy?