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Is this considered legitimate link building?

by josephwestallen
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Hi There,

I was browsing around sites and wondered if this is considered spammy or legitimate link building: ResumeGenius subreddit details

A lot of links on this page seem to be very keyword targeted, but isn't that against Google's guidelines?
#building #considered #legitimate #link
  • Profile picture of the author jdjenkins
    I don't see much wrong with it, but because there isn't much actual content on the page, it probably doesn't rate very highly for Google. More content would increase visitors' length of stay. Basically, the more user-friendly you make a site, the better Google likes it too.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I think you are just spamming some useless site that
    will eventually get shut down.

    Legitimate would not even be mentioned in the same sentence.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It looks like JcPenney is building backlinks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author MattXL
    Hi Joseph,

    That site will never be ranked, but the sites on the first page of the average Google search result have the target keyword in about 26% of their backlinks. That's down from last year, which was down from the year before

    Zoon in on the 7 in the bottom left corner below. This is the infographic from Searchmetrics 2015 SEO study. It looks at 5 billion+ backlinks for the first page results for 10,000 different keywords over the course of a year:

    http://www.searchmetrics.com/wp-cont...ter-US-Web.jpg

    Best,
    Matt
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