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I was wondering, does it help if I publish a link to a new page on my website on my Facebook-, Google + and Twitter-Account - even if noone reposts it?

Thanks

Polyniki

thanks Ryan.

Hello everybody, I used the open site explorer to check where my competitor has links and try to put mine there too. However I am extremely confused with the results. Eg the first link to my competitor coming from a domain with authority 91, is a download file. The other one is a link from ups, the courier service. When I click on it I get an access denied.The other one comes from samsung and when I click on it, I download an swf file. Next one, fcc.gov and it downloads a wp file. If I keep clicking on these links, in the end I am going to get a virus or something and learn nothing about what my competitor does. Any one have a clue how they managed to get linked like that?

thanks, but I am still confused about what the no followed links SEOMOZ talks about are. Are they external backlinks to my site that I submitted to no follow policy directories? Or internal links I put a no follow on? Or both?

Well, I actually searched on the Internet for directory catalogues and submitted my  site on over 100 of them. Now if I type "www.freegamesonline.gr" on Google I find about half of them linking to my site, and Seomoz pro only shows 20 of them, which is rather confusing. Why does this happen?

Also I find my competitors got their links on sites like fcc.gov which seems to contain no links to external sites - i have no idea how on earth they did that - some king of hack? Even more unanswered questions!

Anyway, I will keep exploring seomoz for builgind linking strategies but still I have no clue how to interpret the metrics, I have attached a screenshot again. So what are the no followed links pro reports and how did I manage to do that while my competitors were more clever? It seems so self-explaining but it confuses me. None of the tutorials helped.

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Thanks Ryan, I now understand what a no followed link is, but how does this apply to my site? I mean are the no followed links mentioned in PRO (followed vs no followed) external backlinks to my site not followed by search engines because, for example, I submitted them to directories that put a no follow on the links? All of my competition seems to have followed links and I have a lot no followed, so I am trying to understand which links are these and what I have done wrong.

Hi there,

probably this is so self explaining that I didn't find it described in the tutorial about learning to use PRO or here in Q&Α. But remember, there is no dumb question What are the followed vs no followed links? I understand followed links as backlinks to my site, but what is a no followed link?

Thank you in advance!

Thanks a lot, I think I got it.

OK, so if I understand you correctly instead of stuffing separate pages with the keyword i want the start page to rank with, I should focus on the rankings of each single page and this automatically will help the start page rank better as well?

So for example if I posted an article on my free games website about, say, what is the best oil for your car (which has nothing to do with free games) and this page about the car oil ranked well with the keyword_ car oil_, would it help my start page rank better with the _free games _keyword?

OK, I get your point, thanks!

thanks, but I am still confused about what the no followed links SEOMOZ talks about are. Are they external backlinks to my site that I submitted to no follow policy directories? Or internal links I put a no follow on? Or both?