Will do, thank you Martin.

Hi,

I've just noticed a few back links in Google Search Console, I was excited. But when I saw the backlinks, 2 other websites that had completely copied my content and then gave a backlink to my website.

Is this bad for SEO and would google penalise my website for this?

Are you guys saying no don't do it for the sake of trying to not create a spammy internet?

I know there's better ways to build back links, but i'm curious. Before I learnt more about SEO (only a few months ago) I left a few comments on related articles with a link back and it seemed to have improved the websites SEO. Is this possible or was there something else happening here? Am i tripping!?

BTW, the 3 existing websites are all about the same topic.

Thanks for the response.

Its not possible to redesign the other domains, as the company has consolidated and changed names. Plus that wouldn't save time, its a massive job redesigned and recoding 2 websites! They need 1 big website now. They have very low DA also.

Does the link juice still get passed on redirects?

Hey guys, just wondering, my client has 3 websites, 2 of 3 will be closed down and the domains will be permanently redirected to the 1 primary domain - however they have some high quality backlinks pointing the domains that will be redirected.

How does this effective SEO?

Domain One (primary - getting redesign and rebuilt) - not many backlinks
Domain Two (will redirect to Domain One) - has quality backlinks
Domain Three (will redirect to Domain One) - has quality backlinks

When the new website is launched on Domain One I will contact the backlink providers and request they update their URL - i assume that would be the best.

Hi,

I've just noticed a few back links in Google Search Console, I was excited. But when I saw the backlinks, 2 other websites that had completely copied my content and then gave a backlink to my website.

Is this bad for SEO and would google penalise my website for this?