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It would be swell of you to discuss how to create a natural linking profile. Google will get better at sniffing out off-page SEO campaigns. Some things to consider in simulating natural linking might be anchor text variation, link acquisition rate congruent with traffic, mix of do/no-follow links, some exposed url links… getting the link mix & ratio right as not to draw attention to an ill advised off-page SEO campaign.
looking at a major competitor i see they have hundreds of backlinks half are from pages in there own website and the rest are from a forum site, and yet i have NONE and i know of dozens that exist and arnt listed by google let alone others…what gives?
I don’t know specifically but it is not the number of backlinks it is the quality. So if half are from a forum site, more than likely google is not counting all of them with the same weight, look up “sitewides” and you’ll see that multiple links coming from the same domain get devalued.
thank you for the reply - i just used your tip and found out what my biggest competitor has in links . They have a google backlink listing of hundreds half are withing there own site and they have about a hundred pages …it seems that having tons of pages all with links to the other pages is counting as backlinks?
My seopen result show 1 link listed on google , Yet yahoo shows hundreds , msn 0, if google shows 1 backlink am i loosing out because they dont show them all?
in my continued research my biggest comp are doing the same thing it turns out they have paid banner adds on a forum and the link is counted as inbound back link and the rest of there links are from the hundred pages interlinking to pages in there own site . the top sites in my topic all do this. Are the banner links sitewide - would i be better to have a keyphrase term link on the one page that is word specific in the url? do banner adds help seo or just drivin traffic?
Wil Reynolds is well worth listening to for SEO.
Thanks for the feedback!
Hi there thanks for introducing various seo tools. But i just want to know importance of Directory submissions on the new or old websites.
It is definitely still working, but will have less and less value in the coming months (just my opinion).
Always great stuff
How does this help when you can’t see what he is doing??
hes explaining the information, if you understand what he is saying then it is good information
hegemonies! No one cares
Thank you! Just now seeing this comment.
Glad you are getting it Colloseusx
I just deleted those awful comments. Sorry they were around for so long.
I learned a lot frmo this, Thanks Will. I recently started my own SEO company and enjoy learning from you
Best of luck with your SEO company, glad I can help a bit,
thank you for sharing your ideas
yeh a great thought specifically for the begginers
yeha great thought
It would be swell of you to discuss how to create a natural linking profile. Google will get better at sniffing out off-page SEO campaigns. Some things to consider in simulating natural linking might be anchor text variation, link acquisition rate congruent with traffic, mix of do/no-follow links, some exposed url links… getting the link mix & ratio right as not to draw attention to an ill advised off-page SEO campaign.
looking at a major competitor i see they have hundreds of backlinks half are from pages in there own website and the rest are from a forum site, and yet i have NONE and i know of dozens that exist and arnt listed by google let alone others…what gives?
my pleasure. I’m looking forward to having more to post soon.
Jeff, I really like this idea, next time I record a video maybe I can touch on this a bit more. THx!
I don’t know specifically but it is not the number of backlinks it is the quality. So if half are from a forum site, more than likely google is not counting all of them with the same weight, look up “sitewides” and you’ll see that multiple links coming from the same domain get devalued.
thank you for the reply - i just used your tip and found out what my biggest competitor has in links . They have a google backlink listing of hundreds half are withing there own site and they have about a hundred pages …it seems that having tons of pages all with links to the other pages is counting as backlinks?
My seopen result show 1 link listed on google , Yet yahoo shows hundreds , msn 0, if google shows 1 backlink am i loosing out because they dont show them all?
in my continued research my biggest comp are doing the same thing it turns out they have paid banner adds on a forum and the link is counted as inbound back link and the rest of there links are from the hundred pages interlinking to pages in there own site . the top sites in my topic all do this. Are the banner links sitewide - would i be better to have a keyphrase term link on the one page that is word specific in the url? do banner adds help seo or just drivin traffic?