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    Can you advise why my site get outranked by sites with way less authority and so on

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    • DennisForte
      DennisForte @AlanBleiweiss last edited by

      Hi Alan,

      Thank you so much for your advise! I will defiantly will start working on those tips....

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      • DennisForte
        DennisForte @AlanBleiweiss last edited by

        Have another quick question, as far as finding high quality backlinks, is it better to link it to my /business-class.php page or to my main page?

        Thanks

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        • AlanBleiweiss
          AlanBleiweiss @DennisForte last edited by

          Without enough links to the target page (a mix of keyword variations and generic non-keyword specific), the target page doesn't have enough off-site "trust" as compared to other sites when compared head to head.

          yet if all you have was links to internal pages, that too would look unnatural, so always have some of your new links point to the home page.

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          • SeoStallion
            SeoStallion last edited by

            The other replies here have been spot on so I will only add something on the side.

            You need to use link building in the most natural form possible. Instead of trying to focus your links to /business-class.php you need to spread it throughout your website with a large variation of anchortext not forgetting about long tail keywords aswell.

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            • EGOL
              EGOL last edited by

              Domain authority of 80?  That's incredible.

              Just sayin' what comes from the gut...

              ... I would be wondering if some of the links have been devalued by Google.

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              • DennisForte
                DennisForte @EGOL last edited by

                Hi Egol,

                Thanks for you message, I have the same gut feeling.... To bad there isn't a way to find out which links are possible devalued....

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                • DennisForte
                  DennisForte @DennisForte last edited by

                  Alan, I changed the www.letsflycheaper.com/business-class.php page, could you maybe take a quick peek if this is better?

                  Thanks!

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                  • AlanBleiweiss
                    AlanBleiweiss @DennisForte last edited by

                    This is much better from the previous over-saturation perspective.  Here's my next question though - all those links in the lower part that still remain - they all use "business class CityName"  as anchor text.

                    Except none of them points to a business class specific page.  So how do you confirm to Google that "these pages really are about business class services", other than by using that anchor text from that one page?

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                    • DennisForte
                      DennisForte @DennisForte last edited by

                      Thanks for your reply Alan, yes you have a good point, my writer is now writing new content for those pages. A page for each mayor city with introduction on that city, tips for the business travel for that specific city and handy sites for the business traveler.

                      Do you think, that I should take out the "Business Class" out of the anchor text until I got the new content up?

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                      • AlanBleiweiss
                        AlanBleiweiss @DennisForte last edited by

                        It depends on how long it will be before the new content is up -if it's a couple days, might as well leave it.  If it's weeks or longer, it's best to change them, though honestly making the change one way or another at this point is not necessarily going to move the site in any significant way - it's difficult to judge how much, if at all.

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