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Page Backlinks vs. Domain Backlinks

by webatomic
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What's the real competition here? Should I ignore domain backlinks when trying to size up the competition? Some EZA pages have over 1million backlinks but very few to the page that's ranking. Any guidelines here?
#backlinks #domain #page
  • Profile picture of the author Sven Schoene
    Uhm... Sorry, I cannot help you, but I would gladly appreciate it if you could explain the difference between the two to me, please? I didn't really understand the term "backlinking" yet...
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  • Profile picture of the author webatomic
    Well a backlink is simply a link back to your site/page from another site. Generally the more backlinks you have to a web page with your keyword as the anchor text, the better you will rank for that term. That's an oversimplification, but that's the general idea. There may be an article from Ezine articles ranking in the number one spot for a keyword and there may be 3 or 4 backlinks to that actual page, but there may be several million backlinks to e-zinearticles.com. So my question is, can that kind of competition be overtaken, or are the total number of backlinks to the domain too many to be able to outrank that page?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rich Currie
      I think I understand your question. Don't be concerned with the backlinks pointing to ezines. The only back links that mean anything are the links from the sig file. And even at that I would not make it a deal breaker because you can over come that by your own links.

      If you write a few well keyword optimized articles you will be on an even playing field so to speak.

      Worry more about your keyword testing first, because not too many people even know how to do that correctly. If you do that, along with proper site structure and intra linking etc.you will beat your competition over time. I know this to be true as I have beaten many sites that have way more backlinks than I do!

      The point is there is still a lot more to ranking well than just backlinks!

      If you need an help just let me know.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      millions of backlinks to the domain - doesnt transfer thru entirely to the subpages pages on EZA ...

      1. there are far more articles with links OUT to to other sites than there are - links pointing IN [ I suspect ]

      2. Ive overtaken EZA articles of my own with my own sites - by backlinking my sites 3:1 over my articles.

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