Why are these sites so high with poor relevant links...
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Hello,
Keyword: TV Stands.
I have been researching competitors for a client and we seem to be unable to understand why certains pages are ranking on page 1 of Google UK for keyword TV Stands.
eg:
http://www.furnitureinfashion.net/plasma-TV-stand.html (Google UK 8 - TV Stands)
http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.1999542/Nr.99.aspx (Google UK 9 - TV Stands)
The furniture in fashion has links from sites like: http://www.ummah.com/forum/ and http://www.muslimco.com/ which is totaly irrelevant to the site.
Any ideas on other things as the tesco.com site does not have direct links to it.
Cheers
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Really Nice post, I have got a lot of information from your blog.
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I suspect so, have to await the OP's reply I guess!
Either that, or yahoo site explorer, which does show only a three figure number of backlinks too I think.
DigiJolt, what did you use to do your backlink check?
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Ah... I'm guessing the original search was done using the link: operator from within Google then?
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I took the liberty of running a report on that URL for you (majestico tool) and found: 73,704 backlinks from 349 referring domains to that URL.
I found 68,727 backlinks with the anchor: tv stands
If you want an Excel file of the backlinsk I found, let me know where to send it, and I will fire it over to you, if that helps. (I suggest NOT posting your email in public view though!)
So I think that may have something to do with it!
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Well, not really enough of them to be spammy... could be the guys cousin's site or something... but yeah they're not relevant and if he had a bunch more like that I'd definitely be thinking spam alert
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I'm glad there is nothing obvious! ... You agree the links are spammy?
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The Tesco page might not but the domain will have, and then internal links will pass link juice to a page... if the domain is strong enough then it's no wonder.
No idea about the furniture fashion site though.
Could be a whole bunch of other stuff helping them out, domain age, etc... or maybe loads of the current competition is spammy.
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