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    • DavidKonigsberg
      DavidKonigsberg @webfeatseo last edited by

      can you post it publicly so we all can see what type of work you do?

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      • MarkAnthon5
        MarkAnthon5 @webfeatseo last edited by

        Sure. Here's the example page - http://bit.ly/xEQjsR

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret @webfeatseo last edited by

          The page looks OK to me, the category looks like may others have done the same thing. I'm seeing hundreds of pages with thousands of articles similar to http://zoomation.asu.edu/gallery/zoomation_text.

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          • MarkAnthon5
            MarkAnthon5 @webfeatseo last edited by

            Well, sure there will be other people who post their own articles on the site. We aren't affiliated with those educational sites, if that would be the case, prices would be a lot higher. Sites we post links to are open for registration and anyone can create their own pages there. But that doesn't mean backlink from that site will hurt your rankings, because that's not blog comments or something like that. Nobody can post their link on the page where your link is. Additionally, you can check sample rankings of our clients' sites and you can see SERP improvements.

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            • webfeatseo
              webfeatseo @webfeatseo last edited by

              I see that as well. With that in mind would links like this be worth my time? The domain authority is obviously really high but the page authority isnt. Could of course build links into the .edu page and help some but even then is it worth the effort here?

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              • UnderRugSwept
                UnderRugSwept @webfeatseo last edited by

                I have seen thousands of sites like this that have been created with the sole purpose of placing links and articles on to help ranking. I predict that one day Google will catch on and these sites will face a similar fate as did the Panda affected sites of last year.

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                • webfeatseo
                  webfeatseo @webfeatseo last edited by

                  Im trying to figure out the difference in this and guest blogging. If legit effort is put into the articles and pages when they are posted how is it any different than guest blogging?

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                  • MarkAnthon5
                    MarkAnthon5 @webfeatseo last edited by

                    webfeatseo

                    As I posted above, our clients' sites had good SERP improvements. I'm not going to tell you that our links only will move your site to #1, because no, they won't, you need a lot more than just 40 edu backlinks to rank on #1, but surely our links won't hurt your rankings, they will move your site to higher place and give authority to your domain.

                    We are tracking SERP movements of our clients and we always saw only positive results. However, you can always try, price isn't too high, we have small prices so that everyone could afford it. What else can I say.

                    Also, I want to make a note that not all links come from blog posts, some of them are from profile pages. But more than half of profile pages still have content.

                    About guest blogging - such links are pretty much the same as other links. But they come from .edu domains and you can post about anything you want.

                    Marisa

                    That's not the reason to stop link building. Google can do anything they want, anytime they want. They can remove your site from it's index without any reason and nobody will have right to complain, because they own their site and have full rights to their data, plus it's free and you don't pay for being in the index.

                    Saying that Google can catch you and remove from index for building edu links isn't reason to not build them. You can say that about almost anything. For example: "Google may not like the blue color in your menu bar and remove you from index", "Google may not like one word in your article and remove your from index". So I think you got the point.

                    Google says don't build or buy links or you will be removed from index since the launch, but if people stop link building, they will loose huge traffic and opportunity to make good amount of money. If you always do what others want and tell you to do, you'll never succeed.

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                    • Dr-Pete
                      Dr-Pete last edited by

                      Rand has a great post on link valuation:

                      http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links

                      There's no magic to .edu links, frankly - the data over the past couple of years doesn't really support that they're inherently better than .com's, etc. It's true that many .edu sites are high-authority sites, of course, but that's just a correlation (it's not that Google prefers .edu or .gov inherently).

                      Within any site, though, you have to look at the Page Authority, the number of links on that page, the placement of the links, the anchor text, the relevance (to some degree), and a lot of other factors. Let's take a non-edu example - DMOZ. People kill themselves for DMOZ links, but lately I'm seeing DMOZ listings where the entire page isn't indexed because it's so deep. No indexation means ZERO link juice. So, even though it's DMOZ, the link is worthless.

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                      • Dr-Pete
                        Dr-Pete @webfeatseo last edited by

                        I appreciate your transparency, but to me that looks like low-quality article spinning. It's ok to a point, and it may get you a short term boost, but those pages are going to be devalued over time. Plus, they have no other value (those links won't drive traffic).

                        As for the argument that Google can do whatever they want so that makes anything ok, I strongly disagree. There are link-building tactics that can create long-term problems. Should a client risk a full-on penalty for a low-quality link-building tactic that might get them a 5% boost for 3 months? For me to suggest that as an SEO would be grossly irresponsible. There are smart risks and there are bad risks.

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                        • UnderRugSwept
                          UnderRugSwept @webfeatseo last edited by

                          Obviously I'm not saying don't build links. I'm saying don't waste time on links of no value. What makes a link have value will always be a topic of debate, a debate i do not have time for.

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                          • MarkAnthon5
                            MarkAnthon5 @webfeatseo last edited by

                            Sure, article is spun, because writing 40 unique articles for page would be expensive. For example, if 600 word unique and high quality article costs $5, that will be $40x5= $200. Our prices are in range of $20-$60, so that everyone can afford it. In case we will post unique article on each page, our service will stop being cheap and only small percent of users could afford it. From the launch time, our purpose was and is to give cheap and good service which will help anyone to increase their ranking.

                            The tactic we use for link building of our clients sites is same for our own sites. And I can tell you, that for 6 years, we managed to get many sites ranked on first page for a long time.

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                            • MarkAnthon5
                              MarkAnthon5 @Dr-Pete last edited by

                              It could be so that edu links have no more value than .com's, but only Google knows that. We can only assume whether it holds more value or not. And I think that it does. Because educational institution linking to your site will be great signal to Google. Matt Cutts said many times, that gaining link from BBC or CNN will be better than gaining it for example from your friend Thom's local grocery store's site. Because CNN has bigger authority than your friend's local store.

                              So, if CNN and BBC sites hold bigger value than other sites, why .edu sites won't hold bigger value than other sites? Only educational institutions can buy .edu domain, so that means they hold big value. For example, if Harvard University will link to your site, don't you think it will hold higher value than one article directory from AMR or one blog from private blog network? I think that it will. It's only assumption though, but considering test results and positive ranking improvements we saw and continue seeing in our serp reports.

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                              • DavidLenehan
                                DavidLenehan last edited by

                                I just don't understand why people want to purchase backlinks. Personally I believe time and effort should be put into making great content which people actually want to link to.

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                                • Dr-Pete
                                  Dr-Pete @MarkAnthon5 last edited by

                                  The large-scale correlation data we've run shows no inherent advantage of the .edu TLD in recent years. I suspect this is in part because those links have been heavily gamed. A reputable institution does carry solid domain authority and trust, no doubt, but I don't think that the extension itself is a strong ranking signal. Would I rather have a link from Harvard than Bob's Bait Shop? Sure, but it depends a lot on where that link is, how deep the page is, if it's indexed, what the context is, etc.

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                                  • MarkAnthon5
                                    MarkAnthon5 @DavidLenehan last edited by

                                    Because sometimes people don't link to the content and sometimes it's easier, faster and profitable to buy backlinks.

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                                    • MarkAnthon5
                                      MarkAnthon5 @MarkAnthon5 last edited by

                                      Sure it depends on factors like indexation, content and link placement. We consider that too. And links we are building are indexed within 2 days, some of them are indexed even faster. Links which are never indexed can't hold even small value, I'm not even considering them when talking about backlinks. Not indexed backlink = no backlink.

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                                      • DavidLenehan
                                        DavidLenehan @MarkAnthon5 last edited by

                                        Easier and Faster , yes but more profitable, no. If people don't link to your content then your content isn't that good. People will link and share good content. Long term better content is a more profitable strategy.

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                                        • Group16
                                          Group16 @MarkAnthon5 last edited by

                                          Very often people do have killer content, but they still don't get traffic/backlinks... Link buying is not a bad idea in itself if done properly. However, having 40 edu backlinks done over a short period of time with no educational relevancy with your site will do more harm than good in the end.

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                                          • simplesm
                                            simplesm last edited by

                                            George Lubaretsi can you tell us what is this post?

                                            if you explain us, i promise give you projects.

                                            http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2373680

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