New answers tagged backlinks
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Any form of link to your site being one in a link, text, or even a redirection is a technically a back link. Now the question I think your asking is if Google values the redirects back link. The answer is neither no or yes and depends on the redirection type. If the site redirects using a 301 then it would pass as a backlink, so think of a URL shortner these ...
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You can check your website backlinks with a tool like Ahrefs. You can easily identify bad links to your website by reading this webpage from Google.
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Google has announced that they will try to give more example links in cases when they send
out unnatural links warnings. Its dissapointing to here that you get no guidance in webmaster tools.
Here are some third party tools that list links to your site:
Bing Webmaster Tools Link Explorer
Open Site Explorer
Google Analytics Referral Traffic Report
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This is probably "referrer SPAM". These people drive traffic to their own website by making fake website requests with their website as referrer. If possible try to ignore them.
Does this solve your question?
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Worst case for your boxing site is that these links are irrelevant. Otherwise it would be too easy to hurt competitors by placing links on arbitary pages.
I would leave the links where they are now. Yes, removing them could decrease PR.
Start working now on relevant links to your site.
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Google Webmaster Tools is probably your easiest bet here. In the 'Crawl Errors' section it will list 404s it found crawling your site, along with the pages that link to them. It may not be a completely exhaustive list but it will have the majority of them.
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Some ways non-existent pages end up in Google's Index
There is 3 ways that non-existent pages can end up on Google's or any other search engine for that matter and these are:
Your pages are linking to these pages. (This can be in sitemap, a profile page, a blog comment or a href based a link...) I've seen some plugins from WordPress for example that ...
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My question is how long does it take before google notices the redirects and passes link juice?
It varies from site-to-site. Stack Overflow will see virtually immediate effects while "smaller" sites could have to wait weeks for all of their pages to be found and updated in their index. If this site gets 2,000 visitors a day, they probably have plenty ...
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Using PageRank as an importance matrix is extremely bad for SEO these days.
Google has introduced many algorithms to their engine as well as the likes of Panda and Pengiun, it used to be the case that getting high PR links were gold but nowadays there are hundreds of other factors to take in and I believe no matrix online will be able to tell you this ...
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You can alternatively search in Google with the following command:
link:www.example.com
By replacing www.example.com with the website you want.
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I am not aware with such service but I have a manual method that can help you in preparing such list.
You can use bulk Google Pagerank checker tools and Alexa checker tools to get all the details of sitepages then after you can sort your sheet according to your need.
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Apparently, Backlinkwatch.com is powered by Ahrefs which is a powerful tool to analyze backlinks. You can use it to get information you want.
Ahrefs provides several important backlinks (all in non-free version) that you can sort by Domain Rank (internal indicator powered by Ahrefs). More Domain Rank is approaching to 99.9999, more your backlink is ...
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Yes, even as a blogger I always optimize the <img> alt attribute text and, if the image acts as an anchor, it's great for my audience as well as for SEO.
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According to Matt Cutt(Head of Webspam and SEO) yeah they count Social media backlink like from facebook and Twitter. they announced in 2010 that they do not but according to latest video on youtube [Does Google use data from social sites in ranking?1 he explained about this and maing sure they are having large followers and content are not auto generated.
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Google is pretty vague when it comes to answering questions about Social Media and no one knows exactly how Google uses Twitter or any other social media platform in rankings but what has been confirmed is that Google does use social media signals and things that go viral on social media and get a buzz is often discovered by Google very quickly.
I would say ...
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