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Competitor is doing this

by livemusic
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A competitor who is climbing rank pretty high in my niche has 1300 spammy links from one domain. Links are still being created right now and started appearing back in 2012; they are from The Netherlands and my competitor is USA only. I see links in business directories that look like a fake directory full of these links for various businesses. Each link has keyword anchor text. Also I see images and the alt tag is a keyword. They also have a couple of sentences describing each company's business. Are these links boosting my competitor? Appears to be black hat spam, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Nicky Papers
    Those links could be helping your competitor, yes.
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    • Profile picture of the author livemusic
      Originally Posted by Nicky Papers View Post

      Those links could be helping your competitor, yes.
      Care to elaborate? If it is, I need to do the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author angshuy2k
    Originally Posted by livemusic View Post

    A competitor who is climbing rank pretty high in my niche has 1300 spammy links from one domain. Links are still being created right now and started appearing back in 2012; they are from The Netherlands and my competitor is USA only. I see links in business directories that look like a fake directory full of these links for various businesses. Each link has keyword anchor text. Also I see images and the alt tag is a keyword. They also have a couple of sentences describing each company's business. Are these links boosting my competitor? Appears to be black hat spam, right?

    It is not only your competitors links. There are many factors that counts towards ranking: some of them might be as follows and check what you competitors are doing in all the following aspect than you are doing:
    1. They are in the right time in the right place
    2. Keyword use in document title
    3. Number of backlinks
    4. Anchor texts of backlinks
    5. Keyword use in body text
    6. Age of web site
    7. Keyword use in H1 headline texts
    8. Keyword use in domain name
    9. Keyword use in page URL
    10. Mentions on social sites
    11. Server speed
    12. Keyword use in H2-H6 headline texts
    13. Keyword use in IMG ALT attributes
    14. Top level domain of web site
    15. Keyword use in bold body text
    16. Number of visitors to the site
    17. Keyword use in same domain anchor texts
    18. Keyword use in outbound anchor texts
    19. Keyword use in same domain link URLs
    20. Keyword use in outbound link URLs
    21. Keyword use in meta description
    22. Number of trailing slashes in URL
    23. HTML validation of web page to W3C standards
    24. Readability level of web page
    25. Keyword use in the first sentence of the body text
    26. Search engine compatibility


    Kind regards,
    Swrajit
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