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How much does doing google search queries dilute your search console data
Hi Fishe, thanks for sharing this. I had never really thought about filtering out ip traffic from search console data. I typically work with websites with a high enough volume that I think the filtering wouldn't likely impact my work, but it's good to know for my newer clients who may not have much brand presence and are spending a lot of time googling themselves out of anxiety. I can definitely see a use case for that scenario. Good work!
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | brettmandoes0 -
100+ PPC Landing Pages Linking To Main URL... Hurting My SEO?
To answer your questions: 1. Yes, these are all different domains (ie. southcarolina-waterbottles.biz, tennessee-waterbottles.biz) but all these domains are hosted on the same ip address. 2. Yes, all the domains basically have the same content and the same links to the same pages on my main url. The only difference on the pages is some verbage that distinguishes each by state. 3. These pages do NOT link to each other; only to my main urls. According to my SEMRUSH backlink audit, which most of these links show up on, these links have high toxicity markers, and most of them are identified by their ip network. I'm worried that Google has identified these and may be doing more than just devaluing them, which would really be the best case scenario. I think they may possibly be harming my overall rankings because of these links. It seems impossible to know. What do you think, based on the information above?
Paid Search Marketing | | jfishe19880 -
I have 100+ Landing Pages I use for PPC... Does Google see this as a blog farm?
Hi jfishe1988, could I ask - do you have analytics on these pages? In your initial question you suggest that the pages don't have any organic value but in responding to Alick you say that lots of them get organic rankings. As a couple of broader points: Google has given conflicting advice about how low-quality links are treated, Gary Ilyes has said that low-quality links are just ignored (which makes sense as a way to negate negative SEO tactics) so this may not be something you need to worry about if you aren't relying on these 100 odd domains to channel link equity to the site you want to rank. However, John Mueller has said that the disavow file still has value, as I say - conflicting advice. If the only purpose of these landing pages is for hyper-targeted PPC and you don't want any link equity that is coming from them in case it poisons the main site, you could consider adding a nofollow tag to those pages. That should mean that Google ignores all links from those pages to your main site. It would insulate your main site from any link-network based penalties but it would also remove any benefits the main site might currently be getting due to any backlinks those domains have.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | R0bin_L0rd1