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maartenvr
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Location: Canada, BC
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 Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject: Share your thoughts! |
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We would really like to hear your questions, comments and experiences about link popularity. We will answer all your questions and respond to your comments.
Also, please let us know if you have any success stories about increasing your link popularity. Did it increase your traffic? And search engine rankings? Share your thoughts in here! |
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goldcougar
Joined: 07 Mar 2003
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Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:56 am Post subject: Link Popularity Ethics? |
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I've been researching ways of gaining link popularity, and I came accross an interesting approach. Lots of websites have guestbooks that allow for html code in the comments, or have a special spot for a homepage URL. Will adding my site to these guestbooks improve link popularity?
Also, I have a competitor who is getting links from sites that arn't relevant to their services. They hired an internet marketing company and within a few months they had 375 links and a Page Rank of 6. All because they are getting links from other sites that the same marketing company works for. One example is a domain where they have a page for every state, and the company gets a link on each one. Is this ethical? If not what can I do about it? (I haven't had much success reporting spam to google. I get no replies, and the site is still in their database with good rankings)
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maartenvr
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Location: Canada, BC
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No. Adding your link to guest books maybe used to work but not anymore. Besides that, how often do you see a guestbook on a nice professinal site? And how often of that is the PR higher then 4?
Having a domain for each state is VERY unethical. They should promote one domain and one only. Don't worry, they will be caught sooner or later.
Getting links from unrelevant sites is OK. It doesn't help too much but as long as the site linking to them does not spam and is a good site, it can not hurt. But if someone added 375 incoming links that fast and they are unrelevant websites....that smells like a link farm! |
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goldcougar
Joined: 07 Mar 2003
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Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject: How About... |
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Thanks maartenvr!
One more question... What about signing up for free web space from many providers like geosites, angelfire, ect.. (the link below is to many free personal web hosting companies)
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Free/Personal/
Then making the subject a keyword, and adding a link to your site. Whenever you sign up for geosites, or angelfire, your home page automaticly gets a page rank of at least 7.
Would doing this several times help?
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maartenvr
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Location: Canada, BC
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| Very bad. Promote one domain only. These are sneaky re-directs and Google warns about those somewhere at www.google.com/webmasters. your PR might increase at first but then Google finds out and you will be penalized! |
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gravelsack
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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Re: Geocities and Angelfire
I don't you get a real PR of 7 - I think the google toolbar just estimates the PR based on the PR of the main domain.
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Arya
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