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    Competitor Drops 10,000 links since last index. Lets play detective.

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    • DavidMeshah
      DavidMeshah last edited by

      One of the intriguing things about SEO is being able to reverse engineer your competitors rankings because all the technical  information is available for those who know where to look.

      I recently looked at my Dashboard and saw that one of my competitors had dropped 10,000 links.

      The questions is why?

      Google algorthm change?

      Blackhat Penalty?

      Something else.?

      Here are the numbers, I am going to lieave my own clients site out because his numbers are pathetic.

      www.Leafly(dot)com   50.4k Links  Down 10k

      www.thcfinder(dot)com  1,530 links Down 71

      www.weedmaps(dot)com 64,000k links  Up 1.5K

      Is it just me or is that a lot of links to loose over one indexing period?

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