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Links from coupon sites
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Hi All,
I post coupons on coupon sites a month ago and when I checked backlinks of my website I saw approx 1000 links coming from coupon sites on my Brand Name.
IMO it is quite natural please share your views.
*All the big brands listed on that coupon sites e.g amazon, dell etc
Thanks
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Alick
It wouldn't surprise me if Google already discounts the major coupon sites in their algorithm for this very reason. It doesn't want to reward link building like this (if some were inclined to do it this way), while equally it wouldn't want to penalise legitimate sites that use them.
I think you'd be fine.
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Hi Alick,
Traffic is always good and referral traffic would be quite interested if they click through from a product that is being offered.
I wouldn't worry about the number of links because I suspect they are nofollowed - and even if they aren't, you can easily disavow at a domain level if they are causing you concern. There you get the best of both worlds - no worry about unnatural links and still get referral traffic.
-Andy
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Cheers Andy.
It's not really for the benefit of SEO, more for the relevant referral traffic it may bring.
I guess my concern was around the sheer number of links that one site in particular was pointing in our direction and the potential for these to be seen as spam/ unnatural links.
Alick
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IMO it is quite natural please share your views.
Well, it's natural in as much as you didn't request them, but they will do nothing for your SEO. For this reason, I suspect you will find Google will completely ignore them.
The best links are those that are earned by creating amazing content that others want to share with their visitors, not by a link in a coupon page.
Not a legitimate link building strategy I'm afraid.
-Andy
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When managing a popular ecommerce, coupon pages are a natural source of traffic. Those pages make some linkbuilding for you, although you don't submit coupons to them.
If you have other type of links apart from the coupon sites, I would not give too much importance to this issue. Just check if some of those sites could be seen as spammy to ask for a link removal.
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