Anonoptimization
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- Feb 21, 2015
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So I wanted to post a quick summary of a few things I've learned here. I also decided to post in the white hat section since my new strategy doesn't involve that much black hat techniques.
1) Be careful of any SEO companies that build or link to you from PBN's. A lot of these companies will either remove your sites they built for you or get rid of your links if you decide to stop working with them. This ends up being a big waste of time and money. Working with some providers on BHW will be way more worth it compared to working with a comoany that may outsource a lot of their work in the first place.
2) As stated above, often freelancers are better than companies, I've found a lot of so called companies over charge for their work.
3) Always have clear terms about what is involved, what you are paying for and if you have ownership of the links being built for you. It is best to have a contract working out if you are doing any SEO work that is different from getting links on a big site that the company doesn't own.
4) This relates to my new strategy which is contextual article guest posting links, which is what I'm going after at the moment. I think this is one of the top linking strategies because it looks and can even be white hat if you do it with high authority sites. Simply - Google wont go after contextual links like they do PBN's or other techniques. I am also not trying to scare anyone either cause some people bank big on PBN's but at the moment the guest link technique has given me some nice boosts so far.
So my point with this would be simply pay attention where you link from - an easy way for me to see if a site is worth being linked from is to see how much organic traffic google gives them by going to semrush.com and also if they have a low spam score on Moz open site explorer and high trust flow on Majestic.com I think these tools combined can give a pretty good overview on a links worth. If a site has consistantly a few thousand dollars in traffic a month from Google this can be a pretty good sign to me, along with the other factors. Also in some smaller niches a few hundred in traffic can be fine too, as long as there is no indication of a spammy history with a website.
I hope this helps someone and I know it might be rehashing alot of stuff but I thought I'd share some of my experiences with SEO.
Cheers
1) Be careful of any SEO companies that build or link to you from PBN's. A lot of these companies will either remove your sites they built for you or get rid of your links if you decide to stop working with them. This ends up being a big waste of time and money. Working with some providers on BHW will be way more worth it compared to working with a comoany that may outsource a lot of their work in the first place.
2) As stated above, often freelancers are better than companies, I've found a lot of so called companies over charge for their work.
3) Always have clear terms about what is involved, what you are paying for and if you have ownership of the links being built for you. It is best to have a contract working out if you are doing any SEO work that is different from getting links on a big site that the company doesn't own.
4) This relates to my new strategy which is contextual article guest posting links, which is what I'm going after at the moment. I think this is one of the top linking strategies because it looks and can even be white hat if you do it with high authority sites. Simply - Google wont go after contextual links like they do PBN's or other techniques. I am also not trying to scare anyone either cause some people bank big on PBN's but at the moment the guest link technique has given me some nice boosts so far.
So my point with this would be simply pay attention where you link from - an easy way for me to see if a site is worth being linked from is to see how much organic traffic google gives them by going to semrush.com and also if they have a low spam score on Moz open site explorer and high trust flow on Majestic.com I think these tools combined can give a pretty good overview on a links worth. If a site has consistantly a few thousand dollars in traffic a month from Google this can be a pretty good sign to me, along with the other factors. Also in some smaller niches a few hundred in traffic can be fine too, as long as there is no indication of a spammy history with a website.
I hope this helps someone and I know it might be rehashing alot of stuff but I thought I'd share some of my experiences with SEO.
Cheers
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