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Yes possibly..Make sure your titles are awesome and eye catching, this can help a lot. Perhaps add a "related posts" plugin to wordpress. That will give people more places to go after they have read your posts.

I have been doing a little bit of testing in regards to blog commenting on high authority blogs that no follow comments. The comments have all been manual and added value to the blog. I have noticed quite a big jump in rankings for some keywords. I was wondering if anyone else has a view on the effectiveness of these links when combined with other link building methods?

• Where do people usually source these blogs which typically contain material on a range of different topics? Are these probably paid links?

If they are small articles on a blog, they may be using blogvertise.com. A blog network that lets you buy links on the blogs on the network. The owner of the blog writes you a very small article with your link for a fee.

• How do they get so much content out there, albeit similar content, to so many of the hastily cobbled efforts? Would that be an agency with connections or a blogging community site?

blogvertise.com again

• How can any search engine lend credibility to my competitor’s links when the article below has nonsense for penis enlargement stuff. Seriously?!?

Often these kind of tactics work for a time, but often they eventually do get some kind of penalty. These grey/blackhat tactics can work for months, or even years..often depending on how black they are.

• How are they not being penalised?

They might at some pont.

It’s frustrating because these aren’t the tactics I want to employ but they seems to offer success, but also, if your link is in an article that followed by another on penis pills, how I can take Google seriously in its stated aim of making things this prone to manipulation.

I always think a lot of link building is somewhat grey unless someone is linking to your content because its awesome without any incentive or encouragement.  It's not perfect, but you have to work with it.

In short, Yes it can have an effect on your SEO. You may find it more difficult to show up on google.co.uk, even if you have a .co.uk domain name if you use a US host!

yeah..theres majesticseo.com . You can put in your domain and it will show you a chart of how your links have grown over time. Hope this helps.

In my view it does have an influence, but it's a very small influence when compared to that of high quality backlins.

onpage seo is only one of many factors search engines use. Google is getting better all the time at ranking sites for things that are highly relevant but don't have good onpage optimization for a particular keyword, but maybe is well optimized for a synomym..like a page may rank for "autos" when it is not optimized for "autos" but is for "cars".

it could but that the ose bot hasnt crawled the link so isn't showing any pa yet. maybe it will in the next update.

Hi mozzers,

I've had some great success reaching out to many .edu webmasters. Often they are professors and such. My question is, i'm guessing during the summer holiday period, reaching out to these webmasters won't be so fruitful. I'm not in the US and was wondering when the US Summer holidays are for universities over there? Also, does anyone have experience outreaching to these webmasters over the holidays?

Peter

Its far from ideal. I'd remove them if you can, especially if it's a new site or these spamy looking links make up a big chunk of your overall backlink profile.

yes I get the same error message. I'm sure they'll fix it soon!

No, unfortunately not. links from adsense have no impact on rankings.

If you redirect the keyword domain to a branded domain, they keyword domain won't show up in SERPs after googles worked it all out.

Pete

I think one hyphen in a domain is not too bad, especially if its a .com...it only looks really bad whens its buy-cheap-viagra-online.info. It's very unlikely to affect ranking.

They might help a bit...but I wouldn't rule out googles algorithms picking them up as paid and removing their value. I think u have more chance if the you a lot of good whitehat links and the paid ones are only a small part of the profile. Your PA will probably go up a bit, but i wouldnt have though it would go up hugely as its only two links..tho it would depend on how competitive the niche is... 2 high quality links can make you own a niche that isnt competitive or wouldnt even scratch the surface if its a competitive niche.

if you know the ip of the robot, I think you could deny it access in robots.txt

Personally I'd do a variety of homepage links and inner page links. I wouldn't do more than one link per directory. I'd stick to high quality directories, over a longer period of time. Also, use different anchor text. Brand names are good and URLs.

You can write a seperate page for each keyword, or if there is not too much competition in your niche and your keywords are related, you might be able to create two or three high quality articles that include your other keywords in.

HI Daniel,

1. It's generally a best practice to not have more than 100 links on a page. In regards to internal and external, I'd say any combination is ok if it's natural.

2. Both are very important for ranking. It's often a good practice to have important pages linked to as closely as possible to the homepage.

3)Yes, that's an issue. How would users navigate round your site if there are no internal links? There may be issues with bots spidering your pages too.

Pete