SEOMadHatter, you are looking at the wrong things. Some of the websites are over 3 years old. Of course websites will dramatically drop if they are not updated over 3 years old.
Also Yandex has geolocation, I ranked one.of the websites for geolocation of Ryazan.
It makes a big difference because you can get extra link power for less time.
TavaX, I put all relevant links in title or the first sentence. Non-relevant links at the bottom of a page with a non-relevant keyword anchor. That way trust doesn't get passed on to the subbpages.
You can't link site 1 to site 3, it will kill the bonus trust compensation.
Yes, both titles on both sites, site 1 and site 2, have the same titles for all the articles and the homepage titles need to have the same keyword in them.
Yes, non-relevant links so that trust doesn't flow away or so that the homepage doesn't recommend it's articles as more important(semantic power).
Xceptry1, I am an engineer with my own team, we do everything we can because we invested time into learning all of it. I can't move my own websites since I've no knowledge of websites.
I came to BHW because lately there isn't any money left for engineers in Russia, like it always was.
W9GO, which website? Some are old cases, they are outdated already, however some are still running to this day.
Yes, site 3 gets ranked. Don't trust PA/DA/CF/TF, they are not the 100% way to measure link power.
SEOMadHatter, always be sceptical, however if you try yourself you will see why it's important.
I've uploaded an image where one of the websites actually ranked on Google and gave more traffic even though Yandex is much more popular than Google. ThIs suggests that it ranked higher than on Yandex, page 2 - page 1. ..
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You should experiment with what works best for you. The two parts of links:
1) Informational meaning (relevance)
2) Trust given to the information meaning (high authority in relevant niche)
These parts do not work without each other. A common notion is that the weight of the links is “trust” but this is only half true. Trust is fluid (just like water) where it is designed to go from one location to another. For example if you told me a powerful “secret” – this means you will now have that “secret” with you also. The “secret” information is now shared which now the person whom you shared it to also has “powerful“ secret. Same with trust, once the information is shared, trust is also shared. Thus search engines will divide the ranking weight as the information is deemed equally important that will effect both positions based on the anchor text of the link. No-follow links will not carry over trust but will carry over relevance or semantic content.
Power of semantic content of high frequency anchor will be the sum of mid and low frequency words. Together they will make sense of the information on a higher level.
The distribution of this power is not based on frequency but by the semantic graph here:
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Example: Large mug is a high frequency word. This is the center of the semantic core along with other related important phrases. The size/length of the semantic graphic illustrates the strength of the connection of each query. The power that transmits this higher frequency anchors also defines the closest meaning phrases. Thus, one semantic link will from the donor will transfer power to a group of closely related phrases.
