Domain authority through blogs
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So, I was looking at my competiton, and noticed that they have 4 times the amount of link that my page has. I noticed that they made a blog on almost every free blog hosting available (like webs.com, jimdo.com, .weebly.com...)
And every blog has a high domain authority (and poor content) with links to their page.
Is this helping with their domain authority? Should i do if for my page too?
Thank, M.
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There are literally hundreds of alternatives. All do require effort though, nothing in SEO should be easy.
Add me on Skype and I'd be happy to guide you through a few ideas
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Matt, can you provide more info re: "As long as you continue to build links the correct way then you should do fine."?
If one have a shoe string budget, what alternative do they have?
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Yes i could use some help, i will send you an e-amil latter.
Love the SEOmoz community
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As long as you continue to build links the correct way then you should do fine. Just ensure they are very natural links on relevant sites and aren't based on anchor text links
If you need advice on how to build decent safe links just fire me a mail or something, I'd be happy to advise.
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Thanks Matt!
I will keep on building links my way, and hope that Google catches on to them.
Although they have been first on my top keyword fore some time now...
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WOW. They are using some SERIOUSLY OLD techniques. They have incredibly aggressive and poor link building methods, all based on exact match anchor text links and all from horribly poor domains mostly built to serve the purpose of creating links.
You will be safe in the knowledge that their rankings shouldn't last long at all - hopefully!
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Google, off course!
Just as i thought, this tactic would do more damage than good in the long run, but i wasn't shore, because generally their thin content blogs have prety good PA and DA...
Thank you for two quick anwsers, Matt i have shared a link via private chat.
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Don't do this. Please.
This is very risky way of trying to help your website rank and has become even more risky since the Panda and Penguin algorithm updates. One targets thin content (like these free blog sites will have) and one targets spammy links (which these free blog sites will also have).
What they are effectively doing is creating a link network. I'd like to estimate that they will be hit by Google at some point... Especially if the link network plays a big part in their link profile.
Care to share a link to their site for me to take a look at?
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OK.... which matters to you more?
Helping your domain authority or helping your Google rankings?
Google? Yes?
So, do you think that it will help your Google rankings by putting up spammy blogs that are loaded with spammy links on every free service that you can find? If you have not heard about Penguin and unnatural links penalty, learn about them before answering.
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