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murkymetrics

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Hey guys,

I was doing some research and I found this brand with good authority and traffic:
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For a second it seems like a normal authoritative website, but then I checked their backlink profile:

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These guys have literally bought every possible ccTLD with their brand name and made a copy of their website and translated everything to the local country, and interlinked between them all by a backlink to the home page of every other website in the footer so that they give backlinks from every page in the website, and IT ACTUALLY WORKS.

This is the footer of every domain name:
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This is an example of a local domain (.fi domain)
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I know that organic traffic may seem low for this domain, but this is actually a products only website, and that low traffic will probably mean $1k profit minimum per month for this website.

My question to the experts here, is replicating this will actually works ? Because I do have 10 ccTLD in different markets for the same product category but I'm building backlinks for every domain separately and I'm not planning to interlink between them.

If I interlink them with this same method, will help boost my rankings ? Thank you
 
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It can't be undone if it's proven to hurt rankings I think.
 
From which website do you look to that?
 
I think you should test this method on your other website or create a new one to test this method for a while if it worked there it can work in your main website too.
 
i've seen some people doing this for a bunch of subniches as well and they has been ranking for years,
to work or not depends on several factors such the quality of the websites, keywords, etc..

if you're doing that you're doing it at your own risk,
i wouldn't risk it for a long term project with solid domains/websites,
so, simply diverse your basket instead, make a bunch of other websites for this,
work on building some minimal authority at first, let them age for a while then interlink them
 
Yes this works. Not sure if having it on different tlds improve things, but having localized pages for each language/country definitely works
 
King98 said:
I think you should test this method on your other website or create a new one to test this method for a while if it worked there it can work in your main website too.
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I have already tested it in a micro niche in a local market and I managed to get the websites 3 websites in 1st, 2nd and 3rd position for targeted keywords. I did the same thing, website 1 has backlinks in the footer to website 2 and 3, and the same for the other 2. I have also expanded to other websites the same way by adding backlinks in the footer and I have about 6 websites now in this local market that are in the first 3 positions for B2B keywords with high profit margin services.
 
hideath said:
i've seen some people doing this for a bunch of subniches as well and they has been ranking for years,
to work or not depends on several factors such the quality of the websites, keywords, etc..

if you're doing that you're doing it at your own risk,
i wouldn't risk it for a long term project with solid domains/websites,
so, simply diverse your basket instead, make a bunch of other websites for this,
work on building some minimal authority at first, let them age for a while then interlink them
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You're right, I have already tested this in a small scale, about 4-8 websites linking to each other but it's in a low competition local market, and it worked with good results. I'm just skeptical if this will also work on multiple ccTLD and I wanted to know if someone has ever tested it.
 
IcaroAugusto said:
Yes this works. Not sure if having it on different tlds improve things, but having localized pages for each language/country definitely works
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This is exactly the approach I'm going with. We have about 130 products each in the local language, and we even managed to do about 500 high quality articles per ccTLD. It took lot of resources to do that for 10 websites. So I don't want to mess around with a bad off-page SEO strategy that will destroy all the effort.

After some research I think I found an alternative way to do this, instead of going with footer backlinks, I think we will go with articles and products pages backlinks in each website. Not sure if this will work but testing it right now on 2 websites to see the impact it as.
 
murkymetrics said:
This is exactly the approach I'm going with. We have about 130 products each in the local language, and we even managed to do about 500 high quality articles per ccTLD. It took lot of resources to do that for 10 websites. So I don't want to mess around with a bad off-page SEO strategy that will destroy all the effort.

After some research I think I found an alternative way to do this, instead of going with footer backlinks, I think we will go with articles and products pages backlinks in each website. Not sure if this will work but testing it right now on 2 websites to see the impact it as.
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you can use hreflangs for each of the websites and interlink them together,
if you use WPML, you'll have the option to add links page-to-page based (language switcher) for all the translated pages of products/pages, etc...
and you'll have the links added as hreflangs in each of the pages,

this is a safer approach since you're telling google that's a translated versions of the websites, basically avoiding any spam flags,
but idk if the link juice will be passed the same way
 
It'll work if you maintain transparency that you own all the sites. It's equivalent of managing a multi-national company similar to Amazon. You should also focus on getting regional backlinks for all your sites to establish them as authority sites. When they start ranking in their territories, they'll push each other ahead.
 
Brands have been doing something similar for ages... in the footer they interlink their brands.
 
hideath said:
you can use hreflangs for each of the websites and interlink them together,
if you use WPML, you'll have the option to add links page-to-page based (language switcher) for all the translated pages of products/pages, etc...
and you'll have the links added as hreflangs in each of the pages,

this is a safer approach since you're telling google that's a translated versions of the websites, basically avoiding any spam flags,
but idk if the link juice will be passed the same way
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I did some research on this approach and most sources say it doesn't pass link juice.
 
A great idea was suggested above: to try the strategy on some test resource and then port it to the main one. In general, the testing process, although it takes some time, provides an understanding of whether it's worth investing further in it.
 
adm_crowd said:
A great idea was suggested above: to try the strategy on some test resource and then port it to the main one. In general, the testing process, although it takes some time, provides an understanding of whether it's worth investing further in it.
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You're right, as I said earlier, I did try it on a local market and it worked, I managed to rank all those websites on first positions on some good keywords. Still trying to figure out what to do with this.
 
Black Belt Spodermen said:
Good finding. I don't know if it will work for long but it's a good way to increase authority.
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Yes it is a good way to increase authority, it does last based on the metrics I saw, some of these websites are there for 5+ years.
 
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