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How to Rank as Many Posts as Possible

by dreamtoreality
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I'm still really confused as to which method is better. For sake of argument, say that you have 8 PR3 and 2 PR4 domains to work with and are using a silo structure on your money site. You have over 200 posts that you are ideally trying to rank as high as possible.

1. Link only to the homepage most of the time and an inner page every now and again. So with just a single link on the PR3/4 domain you are maximising its value. Therefore, you're building up the domain's overall authority in the hope that anything you publish ranks more easily.

2. Use each domain to link to 5-10 posts. You're mostly sending links to inner pages, and are then using internal links to rank other posts. With 5-10 links instead of just 1 though, each backlink is devalued.

The thing is that I don't really have specific keywords I want to rank for, although the ones with the highest searches are clearly given preference, as are the posts which have more internal links than others.

Experienced SEOer's, which one would you choose, or have you got an alternative in mind?
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    I always spread it out over homepage / category and post level.

    And then use internal linking to strengthen the more tougher pages.

    I don't expect you'll rank well for all 200 pages with just 10 domains.

    From one domain you could link:

    - once to the homepage
    - once to the category page
    - once to a post
    - once to a legit contextual back link of yours

    Obvious vary it up.

    For what it's worth:

    - 25% of my links are pointed at the homepage
    - 25% of links is divided over multiple categories
    - the remaining 50% is divided over the posts but with 200 posts I would just point them at the ones that are optimized for keywords with decent search volume.

    Not sure exactly why but when I do this I always see the keywords keep on increasing in SERPS for months after the links are build.
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    • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      I always spread it out over homepage / category and post level.

      And then use internal linking to strengthen the more tougher pages.

      I don't expect you'll rank well for all 200 pages with just 10 domains.

      From one domain you could link:

      - once to the homepage
      - once to the category page
      - once to a post
      - once to a legit contextual back link of yours

      Obvious vary it up.

      For what it's worth:

      - 25% of my links are pointed at the homepage
      - 25% of links is divided over multiple categories
      - the remaining 50% is divided over the posts but with 200 posts I would just point them at the ones that are optimized for keywords with decent search volume.

      Not sure exactly why but when I do this I always see the keywords keep on increasing in SERPS for months after the links are build.
      Nice answer, nik0. What do you usually have on your category pages, though?
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

        Nice answer, nik0. What do you usually have on your category pages, though?
        Just posts with the read more tag and sometimes an extra article added to that page to increase uniqueness OR excerpt instead of the first few sentences of each post.
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        • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          Just posts with the read more tag and sometimes an extra article added to that page to increase uniqueness OR excerpt instead of the first few sentences of each post.
          Interesting. I just link to sub-categories. So the site structure is homepage links to category pages, category pages link to sub-categories (brands), sub-categories link to posts. Just wondering why you don't do this, and whether the way I do things would affect how you would build backlinks or not?

          However, on some sites the main category pages lists links of posts belonging to the category, and then I build links to that page to rank the posts (inner pages). Although with some category pages containing over 50 links, the link juice is heavily diluted.

          I still don't know which way works better .

          What do you think?
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          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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            My categories never contain more then 8 or so products so no need for sub categories.

            How you target it depends on whether your categories are optimized for keywords with decent search volume.

            I try to keep the number of levels to a minimum so just:

            - homepage
            - category page
            - post / review

            If I have multiple products of the same brand I aim to cover them in one post and make it a kind of comparison post.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    1. Do link building heavily toward to homepage. And do drip feed link building daily.

    2. Build interlinking in your own blog. This is important if you want to rank many blog posts at Google. Do it manually.

    3. Also do link building toward to each blog post which you want to rank.

    Don't be rush, be consistent then you will see result that you want.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    200 post to rank with an approximately 10 domains leaves you with 20 OBL.

    That would be spreading yourself too thin.

    Why don't you start with a few till you rank them on the first spot before moving on.

    It pays to give the home page some strength as it will also aid easy ranking of your pages/post with fewer links..
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