DO NOT USE Hotfrog Directory for backlinks

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Hi everyone

Recently I have been manually adding some of my site details to online business directories to create quality inbound one way links.

I made a submission to a site called Hotfrog this week and was astonished to see that it immediately knocked me off the the number one spot in Google for that term.

At that point I was not overally concerned as if the listing is good enough I would normally still expect to get a click through from the directory to my site anyway.

However on Hotfrog the page layouts take the concept of MFA (Made For Adsense) to a new level. I absolutely struggled to find my link which was made as small and unobvious as possible.

End result I had built someone elses business with little or no benefit to my own.

I have amended my submission replacing the titles and descriptions with a bunch of information I am not competiting for.

Lesson learned though


John
#backlinks #directory #hotfrog
  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    I don't think this site causes your ranking drop, there are tons of reasons to that...
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    • Profile picture of the author Jays80
      Thanks,i will submit all my competitors to this directory, for some keywords i am at No 2,
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Great! I'll sign all my competitors' sites up for it right away.

    Remember when it comes to SEO coincidence is not causality.
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    • Profile picture of the author Julian Lockhart
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      Remember when it comes to SEO coincidence is not causality.
      coincidence is not causality.

      Love, love, Love that. Very useful. I am a firm believer of this principle. Funny thing is I never had way to say so succinctly.
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      • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
        Originally Posted by Amfire View Post

        Thanks,i will submit all my competitors to this directory, for some keywords i am at No 2,
        Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

        Great! I'll sign all my competitors' sites up for it right away.

        Remember when it comes to SEO coincidence is not causality.
        Any luck? I want to sink my competitors too!
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexTampa
    you probably just forgot to use a private means of submitting the links.


    If you used the same browser that has you google toolbar, or they had google analytics, and google say your ip there before the link was found

    Google will take the IP that you log into your webmaster account, and try and place a relation to the page submitted on
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