Can Off-Topic Guest Posts on Quality Sites Hurt You?

[ProjectLabs]

Based on recent changes in Google, do you think that an off-topic guest post on a high quality domain will help you or hurt you or have no effect.

An example would be if you published a guest article on SEOMoz about SEO but your website sells basketball shoes.

[DavidKonigsberg]

I think it is normal to have some strong sites in other niches link to you  and it would help to have such guest posts on quality sites-

just make sure the content of the piece is niche related somehow

(dont look at just domain authority you want a strong quality site)

as long as most your links are from your niche and you don't abuse that practice it should help you.