Link worth?

[BobAnderson]

These are not my links but does anyone know what the value of one link from something like below is (bio or body)

http://designwebkit.com/web-and-trends/how-many-fonts-designer-really-need/

www.thebuildingblox.com/termite-turmoil-how-to-identify-and-remedy-the-problem/

http://creativeoverflow.net/the-10-best-alternatives-to-dropbox/

in comparison with links from below

www.01fangchan.com
www.1.inerdentos.ru
www.1000empregos.com
www.1stdirectory.co.uk
www.2halsi.com
www.3dir.co.uk
www.514friends.com
www.57billion.com

We disavowed around a 1000 links of the above quality (crap) and need to rebuild decent quality links and i would just like to know what the guess is on how many links such as below would need to be built to compensate for the loss.

http://designwebkit.com/web-and-trends/how-many-fonts-designer-really-need/

vs

www.01fangchan.com

Would need to replace 1000.

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Bob,

The value of any link depends on many factors including technical moz type page/domain ratings but also social and community/readership type metrics. Those first links you show above at first glance look ok although a bit dry and maybe built more for guest blogging than anything else. Not trying to slag them off on a quick look but I would want to dig a bit deeper before I would say those are quality links.

That being said, the second list is really low quality. So, to answer your question, that second group is such low quality that they were probably discounted already and not offering any value to linked sites. In this respect, 1 quality link would be more valuable than 1000 of those, so there is your answer

My two cents.

[Chris.Menke]

I agree with Lynn. In fact, you may have already boosted the authority of your site by ditching those 1000 links--without even adding any more links.

My thoughts on second list that they're not all the same value. Designwebkits doesn't look bad to me but the others, not a whole lot more valuable than the first, other than 1000 links from sites like these might be less likely to get you penalized.  I say that not necessarily because of the PR of those sites (because even low PR sites can be very good links and/or grow into  very good links) but because they just have an air of the type of generic sites that really don't have a brand, personality, real reason for existing other than to help some other site rank better in some way. Links from sites like those aren't ones that you can hold up in front of a group of your peers and announce proudly that your site has--and if you can't do that, their value to you is dubious.

That's my take on them without running a OSE report on any of them.