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Ok so in my traffic sources break down I have 3 sections: direct, organic, and referral. My question is under the referral tab I have recently noticed a new traffic source, my own website....
How is this possible? My top referring site is my own website.... Is this considered direct traffic or how is this being traced?
the link shows up in a collapsible menu like when someone pushes the + next to the text it expands and shows more details and the link is inside the expanded details section. I just read that google dosnt crawl links in java very well. does that make it clearer?
Stupid links???? maybe it doesn't help that I am not willing to reveal the strategy but the links I am getting are high quality, human edited, editorial, and legitimate. I highly doubt unless Google decides to devalue educational institutions that these links will ever lose value.
Let me rephrase my situation. Lets say I do something news worthy and every single news site in the nation decides they want to write a story about me and link to my website. Can a large amount of news column (lets say in content and contextual) links either lose effectiveness after a while because of lack of diversity or have a negative effect because it is all one type of link even though they are all from individual reputable sources.
Thank you Alan this is the type of response I was looking for. While the math example was exactly that, an example, yes the links are highly valuable to the students. I know they provide value to the students because the links are bringing in referral traffic (these links actually take up 3 of the top 5 sources of referral traffic).
Also I am not paying for these links and I have no control over the anchor text although I am getting a lot of branded :).
The thing I don't understand though is this content would never be found or build links naturally unless I put the content in front of the right people. I don't understand how me marketing and promoting the content would have any negative affect. Don't SEO's even have the term outreach?
I have been thinking about a press release for the project but I have read some negative things about them and am quite reluctant.
All the guidelines for quality you posted above check out for this campaign. Will it be ok if I am getting about 50-100 .edu links pointing to this piece of content?
Yes I would do my campaign because I'm getting high quality editorial links my concern is to many of the same types of links from the same type of domains.
I have an idea for a very scale-able way to acquire .edu links with actual page authority (ie. not forum spam or student profiles ect...). I will be hiring someone to do in house outreach so the links will be obtained by people talking to people.
My question is would Google see this as spam if my link building campaign mainly targets a large number or .edu's and all of a sudden I am receiving a high number of one type of backlink? What worries me is that while I have other types of links, this campaign would dilute a high percentage of my link profile with .edu links from unique domains. I hear that diversity is key but its hard to ignore the high value .edu targets especially when the linking pages are higher in authority than my own.
Also the pages that these .edu links are coming from would not necessarily be relevant to my website however the content I am hosting to obtain the links is relevant to the pages the links are coming from. Does this make a difference.
Sorry I am being vague. I do not want to give away the strategy. Thank you for any assistance.
So I found this link to my website on the huffington post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/california-car-insurance-rates-vary-study_n_2122614.html
it's at the bottom in the "around the web" section. My question is this article has been around for almost 4 months yet the link does not show up in WMT. I would like to know if the link to http://www.shiftins.com is indexed and passing authority. Thank you.