Recent content by shrene

Has anyone tested this on a newer domain vs an aged one? We run a few sites in the same niche and the aged ones seem to tolerate exact match anchors much better. On fresh domains we keep exact match low for the first few months.

For us niche edits on relevant sites are still the most consistent. Volume packages still have a place but only for defending the brand name, not for pushing commercial keywords. We also found local language content helps a lot, we added a Bahasa Malaysia section to one site and the local...

Agree with this. We got offered a 1000 link package recently and most of it was profile links, directory submissions and blog comments. On paper the numbers look good but most of those link types can’t even take a custom anchor. Now the first thing I ask a vendor is what the page actually is...

We check index rate at 2 weeks, 3 weeks and 1 month after the order. Anything not indexed after a month we treat as dead. For us the first real number is the index rate, not the ranking, because we only count indexed links.