Www.thousandreasons.org - is this an article submitting site?
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Hey Guys
I was viewing my competitors back-links and I noted that he had a link to www.thousandreasons.org
I was somewhat baffled as this site pertains predominantly to USA Newspapers.
Can someone please confirm if this is an Article Submission Site?
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Digging a little and it looks like a totally fake site by some hack SEO.
Any time you see a link in a suspicious site's footer that says "SEO xxxxxx xxxx" (in this case "SEO Company Perth" that's a massive red flag.
To the left of that link is a link "LEF" - that points to a Link Exchange site. How obvious is it then that this is a bogus site?
Other clues:
No other navigation links of any value that communicate "this is a legitimate web site".
The "Remarkable US Presidents main navigation link has links in it that just point to another hack site "MTI-USA.com" and THAT site, even though it's got "USA" in the domain, links to a Perth "digital agency"...
Bottom line, it's a mess. And the lesson here is don't get caught up examining competitor links assuming you see something that could be helping them unless you know what you are doing. All it will result in is your site being slapped with penalties.
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Hi George,
Doesn't look like an article submission site to me, looks like a domain that expired a few years ago but had a decent backlink profile and has now been picked up by someone to sell links or pad out their own link profile(s). The newspaper articles look like they are from feeds and the only links I can see that are not to big US newspapers are the three little links down in the footer. The site itself only appears to have about 10 pages in total.
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