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Backlinks and SPAM
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I was doing some back link review of competitors and I have noticed that many of our competition have 300+ do follow back links from Justia.com and an additional 300+ do follow links from law.cornell.edu (they share the same database).
The links on Justia are from different pages and they are all going to the root of our competitors site. So the questions are as follows;
1: For the purpose of SEO is this considered SPAM
2: If not SPAM, then does it have a positive effect on the competitions website and should I attempt to emulate for my client.
Thanks in advance.
-Jeff
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I wouldn't do that if I were you it really seems like a "gray" to even a "black" hat tactic. It might work for now but in the future, it might create problems that you surely don't want. Mass link building to a certain domain or a chain of domains is not recommended at all.
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