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I bet only a few people can answer this question.

by kIwOk168
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I'm doing SEO for a particular niche and I always see this particular competitor website on most of my keywords. So in an effort to beat them, I looked at their backlinks.

I'm stumped as to how they drop links on these websites. There are about 200+ of these types of websites when I did the analysis.

aluterm-smoljinac.com/
boxcarwhitey.com/
traffic-island.co.uk/helpful-sites.php
labourstudents.co.uk/our-friends.php
warwickint.co.uk/our-friends.php

And these pages have PRs!!! And are aged domains!!! And they work even if the websites are irrelevant!!!

I'm sure there's some blackhat thing going on around here. Are they buying links individually (that would be expensive I assume) or are they using a service that owns a network of aged websites?

Help me out anybody, I'm expecting only a few people can answer this question. But any help would do.
#answer #bet #people #question
  • Profile picture of the author ARVolund
    It looks like there are at least two different networks in your examples so with 200+ links like that they are probably buying in bulk but not all from one place.

    As far as relevant content goes it is not a site thing. Bury your link in a couple of paragraphs of relevant content and it does not matter what the rest of the site is about.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    From the websites in your examples I would definitley go for they are buying links. It probably is expensive but that depends on how they bought them.
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    • Profile picture of the author TopGun38
      I'm guessing that the guy posting right above me is a spammer based on his comment.

      Anyways back to OP. I do believe your competitor is buying links. There are a few that I know of that sell backlinks in their network of sites. These kinds of buys are usually a monthly recurring fee with up to as much as $100/mos or more.

      My suggestion is, if you can't outrank them, do what they do and more to beat them.
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      • Profile picture of the author ilee
        Originally Posted by TopGun38 View Post

        I'm guessing that the guy posting right above me is a spammer based on his comment.

        Anyways back to OP. I do believe your competitor is buying links. There are a few that I know of that sell backlinks in their network of sites. These kinds of buys are usually a monthly recurring fee with up to as much as $100/mos or more.

        My suggestion is, if you can't outrank them, do what they do and more to beat them.
        Why don't you help the community by reporting spammers
        Back on topic, it definitely does look like he's bought links, either that or he has his own network of websites on various different IPs that he can drop links on
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  • Profile picture of the author NicSennen
    (So many spammers today - have reported a few already.)

    I thought initially that this was something like the abc plugin but the links on these sites don't change when you refresh the page, but it definitely looks like some sort of network(s).
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  • Profile picture of the author SSL Matrix
    Dear,

    My sort and simple advise try to buy link from blogroll or site footer link.
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    • Profile picture of the author kIwOk168
      thanks guys, that's my initial suspicion as well. But buying links like that would no longer be effective in the future right? Especially with Google Panda claiming to have document level whatever algorithm? From what I understand Google can "understand" what a site is about and put value to links based on that.

      I am suspecting that they might own the network as well, I checked out these 200+ domains and they are hosted on 196 different IPs in countries like US, UK, Canada, Spain, and Israel.

      If that is so, we're looking at a very large overhead are we not? I mean 1,000s of dollars per month right?

      Oh well, for the meantime, TopGun38 can you point out some services that you were mentioning? The "There are a few that I know of that sell backlinks in their network of sites. These kinds of buys are usually a monthly recurring fee with up to as much as $100/mos or more." bit? If you can't beat them, join them and do better I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Originally Posted by kIwOk168 View Post


    aluterm-smoljinac.com/
    boxcarwhitey.com/
    traffic-island.co.uk/helpful-sites.php
    labourstudents.co.uk/our-friends.php
    warwickint.co.uk/our-friends.php
    Checked all the websites. You're right, the webmasters are exchanging/buying links.
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  • Profile picture of the author akasheg
    Yup, I also think so looking at these sites it looks to me like they are running are having a link network may be from different sources. They might have hired link building companies for this.
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