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That person outranking me...

by GeorgR.
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One person is about to outrank me, so i am a little angry.

I went to linkdiagnosis.com and see he has a lot of strong backlinks on wordpress PR5 and PR6 - but all those links are on the BLOGROLL.

So those are blogs like a travel blog, or some indian blog, all kinds of of sites and they have 15-20 non-related links to other sites on their blogroll.

How did he get those links??? Is this some link-exchange?
#outranking #person
  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    Possibly:

    1. They own them
    2. They bought the links
    3. They are doing a 3 way linking deal
    4. They asked and they got
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaun Lee
    Off the top of my head, the owner bought the links.

    But like GuerrillaIM said, there are many possible reasons.

    However, I still think the owner bought these PR5-6 links.

    -Shaun
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  • Profile picture of the author internetempire
    It's the quality of links that matters. Try picking up some tutorials to outdo your competitor or engage an SEO Consultant. There are many link popularity tools available but just using SEO Quake or SEO Firefox is enough for me to know how competitive the competition is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
    Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

    One person is about to outrank me, so i am a little angry.

    I went to linkdiagnosis.com and see he has a lot of strong backlinks on wordpress PR5 and PR6 - but all those links are on the BLOGROLL.

    So those are blogs like a travel blog, or some indian blog, all kinds of of sites and they have 15-20 non-related links to other sites on their blogroll.

    How did he get those links??? Is this some link-exchange?
    Guerilla beat me to the list of most likely suspects, but...

    i'm not sure why people around here keep getting hung up on relevancy.

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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    1. They own them
    2. They bought the links
    3. They are doing a 3 way linking deal
    4. They asked and they got
    yeah, like he said. I vote for #1

    Too many people get wrapped up in parasite backlinking and don't realize the importance of building your own network of sites. Sure, 1,000 vBulletin profiles are great (and free) but aren't worth nearly as much as a well developed network of personally owned sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      yeah, like he said. I vote for #1

      Too many people get wrapped up in parasite backlinking and don't realize the importance of building your own network of sites. Sure, 1,000 vBulletin profiles are great (and free) but aren't worth nearly as much as a well developed network of personally owned sites.

      +1. Owning your own internet real estate is great as it not only can aid in your backlinking, but has value in itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    I think we had that debate once already. Look..i myself have many blogs now too, but how many of them gotten decent PR? Sadly, not many.

    Just saying that building such a blog network would certainly be something very good to do...but its something very involved which would take a lot of time, work, money etc.... I certainly would not mind my own network of, say, 300+ blogs PR1++...i probably would be the king of rankings
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  • Profile picture of the author Sleaklight
    Build up their PR, you can even do it with free/cheap PLR content. I have a couple PR 3-4 domains all from plr content. I've noticed that consistency affects pr most.
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    • Profile picture of the author McBrett
      I would have to agree with @TomGoodwin

      I wouldn't get overly worried about obtaining only relevant links in your niche. Any link from a website with great authority = a great link.

      I would email some of these websites where you're finding the competitors links. Just ask them how you get on their blog roll, if they tell you you must pay a monthly fee, it's safe to say these are paid links.

      And their probably passing on a good deal of value.. especially from a PR 6 site.

      @George.. how do you know your competitor is about to outrank you?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
        Originally Posted by McBrett View Post


        I would email some of these websites where you're finding the competitors links. Just ask them how you get on their blog roll, if they tell you you must pay a monthly fee, it's safe to say these are paid links.
        It would be pretty funny if you get this response:

        "Hi, thanks for contacting me. However, I'm also the site owner of the site that is beating you and I will continue to crush you. Ha ha."
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    because he DID, from one day to the other. I had #2 in Google for this KW, right after the "original" site, and now i sank down and he took #1 And then i checked his links and saw those PR6, PR5, PR4 links...
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    so that we can whore them for links
    instant classic
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