Embedded videos Youtube or Dailymotion?

[eunaneunan]

We have been ranking No.1 for a nice term for over a year, but in the last few months a competitor has taken 1 and 2 (we are 3rd now).  It seems hes using a linking web i.e each of his pages has about 20 text links at the bottom of his page to irrelevant sites which in turn do the same thing giving them a nice PA thats about 5-4 more than mine now.

But the interesting thing is that his top 3 links are from videos he has put up on to Dailymotion which has linked back to himself with (no follow links).

We use youtube for our embedded videos, but are we missing a trick? should we be using daily motion too?

on a side note it looks like he has made some articles from junk submit article sites, that link to his site, his facebook fan page and the dailymotion video.

[eunaneunan]

Hes got 77 Linking Root Domains mostly seems to be coming from his linking network or article sites, while I have only 31.  Also he is only ahead of us in one variant of the keyword (the biggest traffic wise).  It seems that he pretty much focusing on just that keyword 58/77 of the links, while I only have 16/31 using the same keyword.

But you think that because the junk links he has, hes not that far ahead of me  ie I don't need to get 30+  good anchor text links to reclaim the top spot?

[AlanMosley]

Sound like they are worth nothing, He is giving them footer links thart are not relevant, i doubt they are giving him any better back

[eunaneunan]

his site is a niche furniture site and the links on the bottom of his homepage are:

weight training for women - silk sheets - ladies perfume - quilts for sale - fireplace screen - bed quilts - chess sets - buy dvd

But there are not reciprocal, those sites link to a completely different set of sites, which then some of them link back to him, quite complex.  Then on every page of his he has a completely different set of links (and the same with the sites he links too).  Other than that he got a load olds of articles posts (some years old).

I have had a good look at all of his links and really he only has a few what you could call relevant links at a stretch, but not as many as us.

But back on topic, you don't think the no follow links from Dailymotion are any good? (they have high PA, 50s

[JamesNorquay]

He may be syndicating the videos to other 3rd party sites which do pass link juice.

Article syndication if done correctly can also work well.

I would look at every thing he is doing and then re evaluate your strategy, do every thing he does yet do it better.

[AlanMosley]

i dont think any of those points is giving him high rank.

reciprocal links, are ok, if the sites are relevant and of aithority.

No follow are not going to help, and article posting is quite worthless according to google.

i would say that he has a few good relevant links that may not be obvious.