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Wow that’s a terrible response. You have no clue what you’re talking about because I just found out that it does dilute your data but you are able to filter out you own ip address in google analytics which is the answer I was looking for. Just in case anybody else was wondering.

So, does performing dozens or hundreds of search queries a day dilute your search console data, or does google filter this out or how does this work exactly? When you do an icognito search and click on your site does this information get recorded in search console?

Lol probably shouldn't advertise that on this forum as I'm sure some of them are probably on it as well. Just looking at it, I'm at 500k for my Ahrefs rank and they are at 3 million but they get like 10 times more organic traffic than we do... And my alexa ranking is even higher (lower) than theirs... this confuses me. How can they be getting so much more traffic than us but our rankings are supposedly way higher. Additionally, our Ahrefs DR rating is 53 to their 37... does this make sense to you?

Hey guys,

I'm baffled by checking my Ahrefs ratings lately. It looks like our rating just went up considerably... from over 1 million to now around 500k. One of my main competitors, however, has a much lower Ahrefs rank (over 3 million) but he does a considerable more amount of traffic than we do... how is this? My domain rating is higher than his by a lot. Very curious how this works.

To answer your questions:

1. Yes, these are all different domains (ie. southcarolina-waterbottles.biz, tennessee-waterbottles.biz) but all these domains are hosted on the same ip address.

2. Yes, all the domains basically have the same content and the same links to the same pages on my main url. The only difference on the pages is some verbage that distinguishes each by state.

3. These pages do NOT link to each other; only to my main urls.

According to my SEMRUSH backlink audit, which most of these links show up on, these links have high toxicity markers, and most of them are identified by their ip network. I'm worried that Google has identified these and may be doing more than just devaluing them, which would really be the best case scenario. I think they may possibly be harming my overall rankings because of these links. It seems impossible to know.

What do you think, based on the information above?

I started another thread around this question but don't think I was articulate enough. So, I have over 100 various landing pages that I use for targeted PPC. I don't really have any interest in these pages amassing their own SEO value; I simply use them for my PPC accounts. However, they all link back to my home page. Is this considered a link farm? And, if so, is the best option to simply add a nofollow attribute to all the links pointing to my home page? Would there be any reason to keep the links as follow? I don't think they're giving my site any SEO value but I'm concerned that they could be harming it instead.

Any expert advice would be much appreciated.

This doesn't really answer my question. I have ppc landing pages that all link to my main url. I guess my question is, should I disavow these links back to my home page? The landing pages are all set up on a different ip address than my main url. Lots of them get organic rankings. I don't want to noindex them. I'm just wondering if it would be best to nofollow the links back to my home domains.

Please help.

I am currently using about 50-100 domains for geotargeted landing pages for my PPC campaigns. All these pages basically have the same content, I believe are hosted on a single unique ip address and all have links back to my main url. I am not using these pages for SEO at all, as I know they will never achieve any significant SEO value. They are simply designed to generate a higher conversion rate for my PPC campaigns, because they are state and city domains. My question is, does google see this as a blog/link farm, and if so, what should I do about it? I don't want to lose any potential rankings they may be giving my site, if any at all, but if they are hurting my main urls SEO performance, then I want to know what I should do about it.

any advice would be much appreciated!

I am currently using about 50-100 domains for geotargeted landing pages for my PPC campaigns. All these pages basically have the same content, I believe are hosted on a single unique ip address and all have links back to my main url. I am not using these pages for SEO at all, as I know they will never achieve any significant SEO value. They are simply designed to generate a higher conversion rate for my PPC campaigns, because they are state and city domains. My question is, does google see this as a blog/link farm, and if so, what should I do about it? I don't want to lose any potential rankings they may be giving my site, if any at all, but if they are hurting my main urls SEO performance, then I want to know what I should do about it.

any advice would be much appreciated!