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Is link building a white hat SEO activity?
To Begin
I must apologize to those who are in favor of TL;DRs. I have included a list of links Google does not like at the top just for you!
This is one of my famous long answers. But it is ...
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Does Google punish pyramid linking and does reverse negative SEO exist?
What is Fair?
To begin with, Google can certainly penalize any sites performance within it's own search engine for what it feels is unacceptable behavior in particular with respect to their ability ...
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Will Great Content On A Brand New Website Attract Links "Naturally"?
In addition to what Stephen and Closetnoc already said... There is no magic bullet here, and definitely no guarantees. Here's what you're up against, and what you can do to improve your chances. (And ...
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How important are back links for SEO in 2017?
Just as important as they have always been. However, artificial link creation or curation is very bad these days. Instead, search engines look for organically created links. Quite simply, people must ...
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Will creating dofollow links in the comments on sites with high domain authority and page authority hurt SEO?
Will adding a comment to this page with a link to your website hurt your SEO?
Yes, it will hurt your SEO. Good back links are all about three factors:
PageRank
Relevancy
Authority
It is a huge ...
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Do links in PDFs hosted online count as backlinks
Yes, Google counts links in PDF files the same way they count links in HTML.
We know this because an online retailer got in trouble with it. They have an educational discount program. They gave ...
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Should I exchange articles for back links with a website exchanging articles with sites unrelated to mine?
I expect this will generate some diverse opinion here, but as you ask "is it safe", the answer is no.
It is my experience that Google appears to look for context between sites/pages, and if ...
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SEO effects of footer attribution link to website builder's site
I'll not recommend using external dofollow footer links cause:
Many of them will be off-topic so your ranks will not be affected
Multiple links from the same domain (for SEO it's better quality than ...
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Is link building a white hat SEO activity?
The "process of manually building links in any way possible" would not classify as White Hat SEO.
But linkbuilding does not mean "in any way possible".
White Hat Link Building: The Zen Masters' ...
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Submitting url to link directories seen as un-natural link building in 2015
Fire your SEO! It is clear that they have not a clue!! All they have done is read the wrong websites and then sold themselves as an expert. In fact, I would seeking damages personally. But that is up ...
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Should canonical tags point to the guest post on an external site, or the copy on my own site?
If the other party are benefiting from your article and you benefit from the backlink, then you cannot have the version of the article on your own website as the original.
This does depend on whether ...
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Is SEO consultant that starts by creating profiles on other sites for backlinks doing legitimate work?
Yes. You should be concerned. Links from sites which do not relate to your content are likely to decrease your SEO performance. I am not very familiar with many of the sites he listed, and it is ...
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Is providing high quality 3D models in exchange for back links a white-hat link-building strategy?
This was a very common tactic for sidebar widgets with a link back to a website. Google determined that these links were advertorial in nature and should be tagged nofollow.
It is a halfway decent ...
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Should I exchange articles for back links with a website exchanging articles with sites unrelated to mine?
It would be best if you share with related niche sites because you will get the relevant traffic and in some cases it will also increase organic keywords.
Also, when you are generating the backlinks ...
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Should I exchange articles for back links with a website exchanging articles with sites unrelated to mine?
Absolutely not safe.
Between my LinkedIn and my site's contact form I get probably 300 messages a month from companies pushing 60+ Domain Authority backlinks in the form of guest posts/blogs/articles.
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SEO - how to determine if a link if strong or not?
Short answer is: The harder it is for you to earn the backlink, the more valuable it is.
I agree with John Conde, don't chase high PR links, there are other attributes that make a 'strong' backlink ...
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Is link building a white hat SEO activity?
Link building
means for me, that one actively builds them. And this isn't according to webmaster guidelines.
Link building is a kind of offpage activity. John Mueller here and, earlier, this text ...
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What is Link baiting
Link bait is content on your site that is created to get other sites to link to it. This is generally high quality, shareable content which other users deem to be created by a knowledgeable and ...
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Does Content Syndication to a Microblogging websites help in Link building?
No it won't and this strategy died or no longer effective long time ago. It will only create more duplicated copy of the content which is obviously spam related.
And it's like you are chopping your ...
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Linkless Mentions & No-follow Links : Potential Future Impact
I once heard that nofollow links have negative connotations since a link with this attribute will be identified as a reference in which the referrer does not endorse. They simply do not pass value, ...
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Should I use sitewide backlinks from relevant niche?
Google has hit webmasters with penalties for running Personal Blog Networks (PBN) in the past. A PBN is when you have several websites that link to your main website to rank your main website higher. ...
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How important are back links for SEO in 2017?
I will just add few more points.
The way Google has been pushing for rich user experience and going very strong against poor SEO approach.
Backlinks was important and now also it plays very ...
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How to check if a page is indexed for getting a backlink from it?
You can use tools like MozBar to check the Domain and Page Authority of the page/domain from where you are getting a link.
If it has a good DA and PA, chances are that they are indexed already.
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Link exchange with your competitor
Even if you link to competitors outside of your service area, you may still be competing for "general" traffic from search engines.
To use your example of relationship therapists: I'm sure ...
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How can Google know if a site has paid for links
In general they don't know and guess based on more or less obvious indicators.
There is plenty of false positives (punishing innocent pages) and false negatives (failing to detect some of ...
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Domain Authority and anchor texts for link building strategy
Read this: Moz DA spam hack - how it works?
tl;dr: you only care about DA when your backlink is on from the home page. Otherwise, you care about page-level metrics from where you link.
For the anchor ...
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External link building using brand name anchor text
Internal links throughout your site help Search Engines determine your site structure.
External links help determine legitamacy. Sites used to trade links with eachother and probably still do. Say ...
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Will posting on a powerful site with keyword rich links to our homepage help or hurt SEO?
Let's see? You give content away. You link to your home page with short keyword centric links. All this from the same site. Hummm. Not good.
Stop giving content away. And stop making keyword loaded ...
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SEO crawler is reporting an issues with a high number of external links, is this a problem?
When a webpage has too many external links on it, it's possible that it can get hit for looking like a link farm.
Years ago, many websites began ranking on Google by getting their sites listed on ...
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Linkless Mentions & No-follow Links : Potential Future Impact
I have heard that linkless brand mentions are a ranking signal as well. When Google discovers your brandname on a webpage, it will use its language processing to determine what that brandname is in ...
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