Jim Boykin has an intersting piece called Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with 1000 backlinks. This entry repeats the claim made here and elsewhere that today’s links are about quality more so than quantity. With that said, I wonder about the other reason to get links — to help you get traffic from other sites and improve your overall reputation. Is it true that 50 quality links will directly send more traffic my way than 1000 low-to-medium quality links. Will 50 quality links help my reputation more so than 1000 low-to-medium quality links? Does it depend on my industry? My sense is that the answer is yes, quality still wins out, but I still think that the question needs to be looked at in a case-by-case
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