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This is something I wrote back in August on my SEO blog; I'm not going to copy and paste the whole thing as it will bore you to tears but I'll share some of it:
Using Authority Sites to Rank Your Site
Many authority pages offer you opportunities to link into your site but they are usually no follow links. To me that is not an issue as there is more to a backlink than just direct link juice and I?m actually a fan of a no follow link at times. I use those sites an awful lot and I?ll share below how I see it affecting my sites in a positive way.
Authority sites have what are typically called parasite pages on them. Those are pages that will rank fairly easily for selected keywords and are often used in the online reputation management and online public relations industries but can also benefit those of you that are doing SEO. The no follow parasite pages will transfer some level of link juice through, albeit not as if they were do follow but there is more to them than just the link juice.
Parasite pages also transfer authority to your site.
Sure we all talk about links, link juice, authority links, EDU and .GOV links and such but we fail to look at authority as a part of the algorithm that has an effect on our web sites. I have about 40 links to various sites of mine from Wikipedia that I have been able to get over the years and I know it has a positive effect on those sites as part of the long term business model I have in place. It provides a balance that you do not get from a blogspot page link and it provides an authority link that you are not going to get from a weebly blog.
There is link juice as we all know in the SEO world as beneficial to our sites in general and there is something I call authority juice.
Authority juice comes from links that are on authority sites or to us guys that use them for SEO, parasite sites; sites such as Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkeden, Yahoo Answers and other sites that are very well known. They do not necessarily benefit you with link juice, and the actual page you have your link in is not always laden with direct DA/TF and other domain metrics, but the site itself has all of that and more.
The combination of the authority site that has your parasite page on it, the ranking of that parasite page in Google for your keyword with a link to your site, and a massive amount of links to that parasite page giving it more juice in Google?s eyes is a SEO win your site.
Parasite Pages Are Good For SEO, Plain and Simple.
Using Authority Sites to Rank Your Site
Many authority pages offer you opportunities to link into your site but they are usually no follow links. To me that is not an issue as there is more to a backlink than just direct link juice and I?m actually a fan of a no follow link at times. I use those sites an awful lot and I?ll share below how I see it affecting my sites in a positive way.
Authority sites have what are typically called parasite pages on them. Those are pages that will rank fairly easily for selected keywords and are often used in the online reputation management and online public relations industries but can also benefit those of you that are doing SEO. The no follow parasite pages will transfer some level of link juice through, albeit not as if they were do follow but there is more to them than just the link juice.
Parasite pages also transfer authority to your site.
Sure we all talk about links, link juice, authority links, EDU and .GOV links and such but we fail to look at authority as a part of the algorithm that has an effect on our web sites. I have about 40 links to various sites of mine from Wikipedia that I have been able to get over the years and I know it has a positive effect on those sites as part of the long term business model I have in place. It provides a balance that you do not get from a blogspot page link and it provides an authority link that you are not going to get from a weebly blog.
There is link juice as we all know in the SEO world as beneficial to our sites in general and there is something I call authority juice.
Authority juice comes from links that are on authority sites or to us guys that use them for SEO, parasite sites; sites such as Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkeden, Yahoo Answers and other sites that are very well known. They do not necessarily benefit you with link juice, and the actual page you have your link in is not always laden with direct DA/TF and other domain metrics, but the site itself has all of that and more.
The combination of the authority site that has your parasite page on it, the ranking of that parasite page in Google for your keyword with a link to your site, and a massive amount of links to that parasite page giving it more juice in Google?s eyes is a SEO win your site.
Parasite Pages Are Good For SEO, Plain and Simple.
