One of the things that makes Yahoo different is that they do not accept every single link that is submitted -- there is human review, which does help in Google's eyes.
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RE: Not sure about reputable direcotries like Yahoo
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RE: Getting backlinks on a page using https
While it's nice to have the link counted by Moz, Google and Bing and the other search engines don't listen to us, so whether or not we see it won't affect your ranking. Go into Google and Bing Webmaster Tools and see if your link is listed there. And even if you don't see it there -- do a site: search in Google for that directory structure and search for your anchor text. If Google see that, you know they've at least indexed the page and are aware of it.
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RE: Outbound Links as References - use nofollow or not?
Do you trust the links? Did anyone pay you for them (monetary or trade)?
If you trust them, and it's something you'd put in an email to a family member, don't put on a nofollow. If they're links someone asked you to put there, consider putting on a nofollow.
Does that help, or just muddy the waters more?
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RE: Outbound Links as References - use nofollow or not?
For sure, go ahead and make those regular links. You have no reason to tell Google that "I don't trust these links".
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RE: Matt Cutts - Guest posts are dead comment
I certainly haven't seen a dip in submissions to YouMoz!
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RE: A Safe Place for Link Building
I'm locking this question and disabling further replies. If the original poster would like more feedback, it's best to create a new question at this point.
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RE: How to determine a web site is a high quality guest blogging web site?
I honestly wouldn't go for any of them. If I were going to post on a site other than my own site, I'd look for something in my field where there would be visitors that are actually interested in my niche. Do it for the readers, not for the search engines.
Would you go to one of the above sites on your own if you were not guest posting there? If one of the above sites got hit in an algorithm update, or chose to nofollow their links, would you still want the post there?
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RE: Link Building On a Budget
That's similar to "how long is a piece of string". If your keywords are sex, drugs, and lawsuit, it's going to be way higher than if you're looking for waterproof sail winch servos, georgetown gallery antique mahogany furniture, and lompoc high school yearbook.
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RE: Link Building On a Budget
I get a ton of emails every day from people overseas, and even some domestic, offering me SEO services. I ask them to optimize our About Us page, and include a screenshot of http://www.strikemodels.com/about-us/ with
If you contact us with offers to help with the website design or optimization, you will receive a screenshot of this very statement. If we’re in a bad mood, you’re likely to get the spelling and grammar in your proposal picked apart, and glaring errors in your website pointed out (for the 10% of you that aren’t using a disposable gmail address).
highlighted in red. I either hear nothing, or will often get a response that they would be happy to help optimize that page, not even having looked at the image.
I wouldn't trust them, personally, without extensive vetting...and that time and effort would probably be better spent on you yourself making the connections that can lead to links.
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RE: A Safe Place for Link Building
Just a quick note that Thomas's answer was made before the question was edited and changed. The response was not to asking for talking about link building, but to a different question. For readers who don't know this, his response looks a bit off and harsh.
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RE: What is the process of link earning to avoid link building?
Hello Akhilesh,
I just wanted to leave a quick note that Andy is another Moz user like you, and not an employee or contractor with Moz. He's volunteering his time to give you answers, and appears to be on a different continent (and time zone) from you.
In a couple of other questions, people have suggested that you read the Beginner's Guide to SEO. Have you had a chance to do this yet? There's a section on link building at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links that you may find helpful.
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RE: Best resource for baclinks
Our Beginner's Guide to SEO has a section about links that should be helpful and get you started in the right direction.
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
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RE: So, blog directories post-Penguin. Thoughts?
I notice there's no date of publication or last review on the SEJ post. Things change very frequently in SEO, both in terms of tactics, and in terms of the sites themselves. Things that Moz posted five years ago may now have broken links, or may now be against Google guidelines, even when they were just fine at the time.
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RE: Are High Domain Authority, Low Page Authority Links Good?
Is it a good page? Is it helpful to people? Is it related to the link's destination? Would you trust the page? If the search engines disappeared or stopped using links in rankings, would you still want the link?
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RE: Content Marketing and Link Building Strategy in Industrial B2B
Here's a couple of things I would add to the process.
2a) Look at what the person has written before you ask them to write. Nothing like asking them to write for you, then needing to decline once you see their post.
3a) Have a good reason for them to post. The person doing the writing needs to get paid. If they are a freelancer, you're competing with other people who are willing to pay them for their time. If they are at a company with a boss, they need to convince their boss that it's worthwhile for them to donate their time to write for you, instead of writing for their own site, or doing something else to generate their company money.
4a) Don't push your luck with asking people to write for you for free and then also link to you.
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RE: Massive links to TIER
Whichever tier you want to eventually out to Google and want to later do a disavow on.
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RE: Why are my total links to site going down but my average position keeps getting better on Webmaster?
This seems a small enough change I wouldn't worry about it. What does your traffic to your site look like? Sales?
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RE: Is there any tool that can automatically generate backlinks for my website?
If there are automated tools that submit every site that asks to directories, the directories are going to be worthless when it comes to actual users. The search engines know this, and it won't do your sie any good, and quite possibly could harm your site.
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RE: Underwriter links on public radio
If the search engines were taken out of the equation, would you still be interested in the link?