A general query about backlink

by denorlinen

Posted: 9 years ago 5 replies

Hello Experts,

Our SEO consultant just purchased a few .gov backlinks for our website. Can you please suggest me if the link he provided is valid:

You are now leaving Energy.gov | Department of Energy

Our website is QuickBooks Hosting Provider | Cloud Computing for Accountants.

Please suggest.

Thanks,
Denor

lovboa Banned 9 years ago

That is not a valid link, nor was it paid for. The guy is trying to scam you. Maybe someone who knows about that type of URL will explain a little better.

It appears the page your SEO consultant has shown you is not a page, but just the results of a script ran on that page.

It looks like the actual URL is http://energy,gov/exit. Anything after that is just a query that the page returned.

For example, if you used the search-bar on a WordPress website, it would usually show the URL as something like this: www,yoursite,com/?s=asdf

That doesn't mean that that page is an indexed page. It is just a returned results that the script provided.
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yukon Banned 9 years ago

You've been scammed.

The URL is worthless regardless what TLD it's on.
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- Paul Jo George 9 years ago
  
  I think that the (back) link is OK, but the Gov page URL is not valid.
  
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MikeFriedman 9 years ago

Holy crap you got ripped off.

You are now leaving Energy.gov | Department of Energy
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denorlinen 9 years ago

Thank you so much Guys!! I will take care of this as I came to know the fact.
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