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How local listing websites like yelp, yellow pages rank on 1st page without any backlink.

by nkj
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I have seen many times that for local search terms, websites like yellow pages, yelp rank on first page. But checking their on page and off page optimization, its not such great. Can anyone explain how they are ranking on google?
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  • Profile picture of the author randomzeus
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    • Profile picture of the author stevenwatson011
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      • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
        Originally Posted by stevenwatson011 View Post

        what do you mean by powerful magic..
        See post #3. Backlinks = magic.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by alvinchua91 View Post

          That's because their root domain has tremendous amounts of authority - when you have that level of authority, ranking for most things is really simple. That's why you also see sites like Wikipedia ranking so highly for a lot of terms.
          That is not why. It is because of the internal link structure throughout the site, especially in the case of Wikipedia, not to mention that Wikipedia does some really crafty, but incredibly simple, onpage SEO.

          The Wordpress theme that Yukon just put out there mimics a lot of Wikipedia's site structure.
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          • Profile picture of the author AlphaWarrior
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            It is because of the internal link structure throughout the site, especially in the case of Wikipedia, not to mention that Wikipedia does some really crafty, but incredibly simple, onpage SEO.
            What crafty, simple, onpage SEO do they do?

            Thanks!
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          • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            That is not why. It is because of the internal link structure throughout the site, especially in the case of Wikipedia, not to mention that Wikipedia does some really crafty, but incredibly simple, onpage SEO.

            The Wordpress theme that Yukon just put out there mimics a lot of Wikipedia's site structure.
            It is because of both, relying on either one is not sufficient. (e.g. only domain authority with BAD inner linking, or only good linking with literally no good links to the domain)

            I'll leave out the definition of 'good' links since I'm pretty sure you already know what I mean.
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  • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
    Yelp has 4 million backlinks, Yellowpages has 2.2 million.

    That's how they're ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    That's because their root domain has tremendous amounts of authority - when you have that level of authority, ranking for most things is really simple. That's why you also see sites like Wikipedia ranking so highly for a lot of terms.
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  • Profile picture of the author khanbu25
    They're mainly focusing on LOCAL search result and also ranking for local keywords such as Home Maintenance in CA. when you search like that search engine first look over the local listing site because the are made for local business and also they've millions of backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author ahmed150
    They have millions back links. Website age also matter alot.
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