Competitors link building surely link farming ? but no punishment?
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Hi there added a competitors metrics to see what they were doing and to my amazement they seem to have 1000+ links surely this is link farming considering we stay in a very remote area. also why would he be rewarded for this not punished?
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Hi Shauni!
I agree with everyone here. There's nothing inherently spammy about having a lot of links, but if those links ARE spammy, then Google should catch on eventually. You might consider running a competitive link audit to see if you can take advantage of any on your competitor's links. There's a quick video on the practice here.
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Have you tried to group the links by domain/subdomain?
Someone can have their website URL in their Forum signature for example which would show up every single time they post in the forum so potentially you could have 1000 links just from that alone.
Also it can take very long time for someone to get penalized for spammy links it's not an overnight thing by Google.
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Just takes time.
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Have you analysed where those links are coming from?
Yes! And what they are pointing to. If they are pointing to rubbish, that is another indicator that they are bad.
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Hi Shauni,
Have you analysed where those links are coming from? Do they look spammy and unrelated? If so, don't worry, they will be penalised soon. Google may take some time to discover the nature of "link building" methods of your competitors.
Many Thanks,
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