Keywords were stuffed in title tags, meta tags, navigation, content, anchor text, URLs, domains, if there was a place to add a keyword they did it. Buy 10,000 links and point them in your site's direction.
Links from irrelevant domains aren't bad, per se. However, if all or the vast majority of your links are from topically irrelevant domains, that's a problem. Sure, the link anchor text may be relevant, but all the links are from off-topic domains...
Are the sites that link to your pages relevant, trusted, and credible domains, or are they chiefly derived from $50 guest post bio links in irrelevant content on irrelevantly themed sites? If visitors are there to buy and at the bottom of your...
Some companies decided to add an affiliate component to their core domains. The pages were simply a conduit to the partner pages where users could buy products. Although each company has its own history, and story to tell, there’s one element I...
NP: Exact match domains or exact anchor texts? JD: On that note, on getting links from multiple domains, how many domains would you recommend to get from a single domain before you start seeing diminished returns?
This can be in the form of rank for your competitors for the keywords and keyword groups that matter to you; their backlink profile including anchor text and authority of linking domains Turn your competitive intelligence into opportunities and...
How many crap exact match domains (EMDs) are still ranking, and ranking better, after the latest EMD crackdown? It's fine if you have $15,000 a month to use to buy links because it's easier to throw that money at someone and not have to worry about...
The problem is amplified by the fact that incorrect information is useful as a sales tool to specific segments of the SEO community and so even newer pitches include references to "building one zillion links per month" or "building links from...
They have 1,502 linking domains in Open Site Explorer and are really doing well socially. They don't have a ton of links though, showing only 199 linking domains in Open Site Explorer, but their social shares are high and they are currently in the...
Thin affiliate sites that only exist to make money, identified by checkout on a different domain, image properties showing origination at another URL, lack of original content, different WhoIs registrants of the two domains in question.
Although we haven’t completely figured out what’s going on here, it seems to support the theory that Google is actually looking at multiple sources and trying to use as many verified data signals as it can to leverage brand results and surface...
Which domains with high authority link to them? Do these domains link to you? At SES San Francisco I will take a deeper dive into this subject highlighting some key steps that help you forecast opportunity and get that all important buy in from...
So instead of checking more than 200,000 pages, you only need to check 778 domains. The blog has 201,048 links from 778 domains. People who buy links tend to be a bit greedy. If you have 10,000 or more links to your site, this can seem like an...
ICANN today revealed its big list of applicants for 1,930 new generic top-level domains. Amazon is Google's biggest competitor, with both companies bidding on 21 of the same domains, including .search, .play, and .drive.
Put simply, anchor text matches from other domains seems to be a ranking factor on Google and other search engines. In the hope of increasing the number of links from different domains to your site you may hit upon the brainwave to create a blog on...
Some links are simply more valuable than others, particularly links from authoritative sites (like respected news sites) and links from .edu and .gov domains. If CNN linked to your site with an anchor of "great place to buy a computer" then your...
While there is a significant debate on building mobile through the use of subdomains versus subdirectories versus completely different top level domains, the specific scenario will often dictate choice.
We looked at more than 100,000 inbound links across more than 650 e-commerce and non-ecommerce domains, ultimately analyzing more than 4.2 million links and their anchor text using Conductor's Searchlight SEO platform (disclosure: I work for...
In the largest study of its kind, the SEO service company analyzed more than 23 million multiple-interaction conversions across 30 domains over a period of one year. Multi-touch attribution helps marketers consider all aspects of the path to...
Only unfair ranking factors like exact match domains keep SEO from being a level playing field, but it’s getting there. If you make enough money you can even buy a top ranking website to re-use their positions and traffic.
