You can buy a domain with links from these sites for $5, then you 301 that domain to your money site.
IMO the links are useless unless the article gets some traction and other sites link out to that article because then you would get that link juice.
But if that does not happen you just have a empty link with no link juice, these bug authority sites make many articles a day and link out so much you wont get much link juice off the root domain.
Better off making web 2.0s and tier link them with GSA
I understand the whole expired domain thing and making a PBN or 301ing that domain, but my opinion is that is no where near the same as a direct link from the same authority site. But this is probably a discussion for another thread
do some crazy shit that will catch their attention instead of paying some random seo guy 1000s for links.
You need to some CEOScam level stuff, but in the amazing category
Ehhh.. Our niche is pretty boring. We'd have to get incredibly creative to do something to go viral or catch their attention. You never know.
If you target hipsters and college types browsing Reddit on a Starbucks, then yes a link on Huffpo will be a great asset.
As for the link PR value, I think google is probably onto it, since it's been made public that these links were being sold all over the place over a year ago.
Lol. Reddit. I don't understand it. And that's NOT the demographic we are targeting. Heh, so maybe Huffpo isn't that relevant.
Dont look at it as a SEO investment, because its not.
I'll give you an example from the gambling niche. There was a start-up that received a couple of millions in investment. That story immediately hit the press and short after the website was on the 1st page for some competitive terms. I was witnessing it online, because gambling is one of the niches I'm in, and that start-up happened to target my keywords.
Anyway 3 months later it was no where to be found. His competitors (me included) are not on Forbes/Huffingtonpost/etc and as far as I can tell no-one of the top 10 did anything to help him disappear. He just disappeared naturally once the buzz faded.
Treat these posts as ads. E.q. if you can get 100 targeted visitors from a post on Forbes and the cost per visitor is less than the cost per visitor in adwords, then its worth it.
Very good post. I follow your logic completely. I think someone replied to you that just 1 example doesn't matter... but I do think this is a good example. The only part I don't wholly agree with is the "SEO investment" part. Unless we're all way off our rockers, good links do matter. We just don't know how much they matter (to Google). But I agree that the visitors and exposure is often more important than the link itself.
Its purely for authority when using psychology. Something like this might push you over the top for a sale, others not so much.
Good point. And the more I think about it, I don't think being able to say we were mentioned on the Huffington Post would matter much in this category
Small correction: The higher the Page Rank of pages, the higher will be its significance in the World Wide Web, as per Google.
If your Forbes post has no backlinks from 'significant' pages on Forbes, then it is a pretty worthless post in terms of SEO.
Add a diminished value of Page Rank to the equation and your Forbes post becomes just another post among the many you'll need.
This pretty much cuts to the heart of my question. If I get a link on Forbes in 1 article, but it never hits the front page, never makes it to a sidebar and no other Forbes article links to it, it's going to have a very low PR. Now, maybe I could build some other links to that post, and the PR/PA/whatever would go up a bit.
It is mind blowing how some people think some links from super authority, high DA sites will help rankings, regardless of the actual article's PA, and other people claim the only real thing that matters is the actual article's PA (so a crappy PA, even on a high DA, won't help much).
Maybe there are some true experts who have done a lot of testing and know the secret, but they haven't told me. And Google sure ain't tellin' me, either.
