Questions tagged [backlinks]
External links (from other website) that link to your website.
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Find pages that link to another URL?
IIRC, Google used to let you do a search for all pages that link to a URL, but I can't find that method any more. Also, I don't see it in Webmaster Tools either.
I am probably overlooking something, ...
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What is a "back link" and how does it affect search ranking?
I have heard about back links but am not sure what they are or how they affect search rankings and search engine optimization.
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Is link building a white hat SEO activity?
Link building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a ...
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What is linkbaiting?
I have been wandering around some SEO sites this evening and have been seeing this term linkbaiting. The word bait kind of makes it not sound so great.
What exactly is linkbaiting and how does it ...
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How do I build backlinks?
I've recently made a site and I want to know how to go about making backlinks?
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Knowing your online Competition how to reveal 301’s directing domains
I truly believe that any webmaster entering any niche should investigate their online competition beforehand to know what they're up against and to see if their goals are realistic and affordable in ...
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Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If I have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through. If my image is embeded in their site like this :...
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How to handle hundred of external links in a site?
The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple ...
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Will link exchange with similar sites improve my PageRank?
I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's PageRank.
I know in ...
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Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks
I know that when it comes to obtaining backlinks, a no-follow is pretty much worthless. However, does Google (or other major search engines) penalize for sites that have nothing but do-follow links?
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Do “noopener noreferrer” links count as backlinks?
I have bought ad links in some websites with a link, but when I saw the sites, they add an attribute noopener noreferrer on my website link.
Does Google count this as backlink?
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A page has been removed from Google due to DMCA, are its inbound links still valuable?
Ok here is what I believe is a tricky question:
So you have a website where a DMCA removal was made against a post, which received a humongous amount of traffic, the DMCA removal may or may not have ...
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Reporting paid links to google - does it work?
I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0)
Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or ...
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Is it okey to start link building before my site get indexed?
Self explanatory question. If you have a fresh new site which is not yet indexed by google. Is it okey to start with link building or i should wait to google index my site?
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Will Great Content On A Brand New Website Attract Links "Naturally"?
I have just started a brand new website in a domain that I have a decade of experience.
As like any website creator I would like to see search engine visits to good quality content on my website.
I ...
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Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?
I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index):
/?title=...
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quickest way to research a set of pages backlinks
I have a list of 300+ pages (they were chosen based on which pages rank for a keyword I'm interested in) and I want to compile a list all the (known) inbound links to those pages.
What's the fastest ...
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How much time does Dmoz.org take to approve a link on their directory?
My client wants to have his site listed on the Dmoz.org directory. I have filled out the forms but am still waiting for the approval process to complete.
Is there anything else I need to do to make ...
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How often are "Links to Your Site" updated in the Google Webmaster tool?
How often are "Links to Your Site" updated in the Google Webmaster tool?
I found this thread with various replies on the matter, from "every few days" and "around 20 to 30 days" to "backlinks to my ...
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Detecting whether banner ads pass link juice
I wanted to determine the relative SEO value of the advertising links passed by this website: http://www.garden.org/.
On the right side you'll notice several advertising banners that, when clicked, ...
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Does Google count a text only link as a backlink?
I would like to know if anyone knows whether a text only mention in a post i.e. www.example.com (NOT placed in <a> tag) counts as a backlink and actually gets followed and carries any weight in ...
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Should I bother with a Business.com Listing?
I keep getting promotion codes from business.com stating that I can get a listing at $100 discount. However, that's still $199 and I'm not clear about the benefit. I would understand if I was paying ...
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Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?
I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in ...
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How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website
The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack bot,...
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How do I find information on who links to my sites? [closed]
I'm trying to figure out if there's a free way to get information on back links to my site.
I've had webmaster tools and Google Analytics set up for years. But I can't find access to data about site ...
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Is pyramid link building a good practice for SEO?
Can someone help me to understand please?
Is pyramid link building a to do practice for SEO?
Does it work as per example below?
Tier 3 pyramid building for SEO...
Tier 3 site, links to Tier 2 site.....
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Buying Backlinks
I came across a website the other day that was selling backlinks. The site was well designed and promised some results for a nice low price but not too low. After a couple of minutes it started to ...
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Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that ...
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Web designers back link on client sites
We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:
Should the keywords be in ...
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Is there a penalty in link building?
If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target URL, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?
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What exactly is a bad backlink that is Disavow worthy?
I have been reading Webmasters SE and many other blogs on this topic but I could not understand how do we truly evaluate a bad link that we must disavow in GWT. Everybody seem to have a different ...
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Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?
Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1
Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?
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Sudden SEO rankings drop for a specific domain of a multinational site [duplicate]
EDIT 19/6: the issue is apparently solving itself
Unfortunately I cannot see any indication of what worked. It could be the spammy-looking domain which we disavowed links from, but it can also be a ...
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Is a "back" link on each page really needed?
I saw some sites having a <<back link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it ...
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Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?
Since 2009, Google counts nofollow links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page?
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Does Google penalize Wikipedia external links?
Wikipedia external links are all nofollow, so it seems they shouldn't have any effect, negative or positive.
But an article that I found online suggested that Google may penalize those external links....
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Importance of having EDU backlinks
I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3, 1 of them PR2, 6 of them PR1, 10 of them PR0. My ...
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Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?
I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it:
1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality ...
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Is hidden backlink blackhat SEO?
See below link. It will create a huge backlink for me if I put it on dynamically generated blog posts. Is it a blackhat SEO strategy?
<a href="http://example.com" style="display: none;">Example&...
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Are twitter backlinks counted
We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls.
From an seo point of view a link on their ...
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Will creating dofollow links in the comments on sites with high domain authority and page authority hurt SEO?
Will backlinks from commenting hurt or help SEO?
I've found some sites with high DA, PA: DR 40++, dofollow but high OBL.
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Generating backlinks through a javascript video widget without getting manual action penalties?
I'm finishing an API project that will allow website owners to display related videos on all of their pages with a simple javascript code. The related videos are completely related to the page's ...
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Adding your website to free web directories as a link building strategy
It's been two months since I've launched a website. I recently ran into some websites which list directories of other websites. Some examples of the web directories can be found at web-directories.ws.
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Unnaturally high number of links from domain
Please consider the following image, from Google Webmaster Tools
I have these unnaturally high link counts coming in from lowish Page Rank Domains (MOZ Score 13)
Is this natural? Is this hurting my ...
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Does shortened URL carry less weight in terms of SEO?
Which backlink would carry more weight in terms of SEO between the original URL to a webpage (like http://www.example.com/Zqe9) or a URL shortened from Google (like goo.gl/Zqe9)?
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Get Google to ignore backlinks from a particular domain
I just used a backlink scan tool to show me the backlinks to my site. I have found there are almost 90k backlinks. The problem is that about 95% of these are coming from the same domains and these are ...
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What does it mean if Google has its own links to your page displayed in Google Webmaster Tools?
I am just curious about the following:
When viewing links to my site in Google Webmaster Tools I see all my usual links, but recently something I find strange has popped up:
Google itself is ...
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When does a good link become toxic
It is my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong but with Google's penguin and daily BACKLINK algorithms it will do several checks before rewarding for the link. It will then regularly check that ...
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Why do external links on Google Search Console vary so much from month to month
I keep an eye on external links to my website that google reports in its webmaster dashboard for my blog (technical tipps).
According to that dashboard, my website has a wildly varying number of ...
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Unnatural Links Message from Google
We just recived (March 8 2013) a message from Google saying.
We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques
that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, ...
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