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1.) Comes from a relevant site
2.) Comes from an authority domain
3.) Has your keyword in the text
4.) Is in the main content section of the page (usually)

Article goes into detail regarding these four points
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from seoster 1666 Days ago #
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from Hugh 1666 Days ago #
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I agree that links should ideally drive traffic, but just because they don’t doesn’t implicitly take away from their value.  It must be nice to work on projects where you can afford to think so narrowly.  If a link never brings a site traffic, but lays the foundation for targeted search engine traffic, how can you say it isn’t quality?  Granted, most of the time a link on a relevant, authority domain is going to bring you traffic anyway, but if it doesn’t, it’s not crap.I don’t even see how it could be crap to begin with?You’re not seeing the forest through the trees.  A link that never drives traffic but builds a foundation upon which targeted traffic is driven can’t be considered crap.   That comment should be stricken from the record.

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