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I was just curious if anyone had any directories they'd like to share that carry high Domain Authority(imo: 70+)?

I know about dmoz.org and Pegasus but other than that, none.

Thanks.

Robert,

next time you want to quote me, at least quote the full sentence. Also, the word software, never was mentioned or said. You don't need an article spinning program to re-spin an article.

Also, maybe you should try blogging instead of posting your clients on free directory sites which require little to no work. oh and low domain scores.

yeah, I recommend getting them to write an article and do some some spinning to that article and repost it on other blog sites with high domain authority.

From there, ask them what kind of research do you want them to do for them regarding the services they offer, and look at what their competitors have to say about that subject and come up with your own words. Re spin that and repost that on other blogs.

Then use google's feed burner to link those blogs.

i mean i do inhouse seo for a very high competitive niche market, where our competitors do some shady stuff, so it's hard to stay in the "white hat zone"

just my two cents.

As Allstar mentioned, what's your keywords? use those.

Obviously you're creating links to manipulate your client's rank and i understand, they want results.

Look at your competitor's backlinks and try to post on the ones that have high domain authority. within a few months and a few hundred back links your client will be in competitive standing against them with their own keywords or the keywords you chose for your clients.

and if you dont already know http://www.opensiteexplorer.org for looking at your competitor's backlinks.

Are there any benefits to linking a shortened url vs. an anchor text when I am link building?Would linking via shortened link such as tinyurl cause problems with SERPS? Also, would it be more beneficial to short link to the homepage or landing page?

Well I'll tell you two things.

1. the majority of the sites that you have backlinks on are low domain authority.

2. you don't have many back links according to Open Site Explorer.

Should be an easy fix you know where to back link.

Using OSE, check the DOMAIN AUTHORITY of the sites that the back links are on. What I believe is that website B has better quality and thus higher domain authoritative back links than site A.

and/or

Website B has more back links than website A.

Also,

how well optimized are the websites for the keywords you are targeting? That's important.

I cant answer how to measure Pinterest, but I can tell you that Pinterest has a great  impact on my campaigns. That's all I'm going to say.

Allan,

I also used Opensiteexplorer.org to look at your back links. They are all from directories, it would help to diversify your link structure to include high domain blogs and post on forums related to your industry, DJ equipment.

Allan,

My short answer is no.

They outsource their clients keywords to text brokers and bloggers, and use alot of back linking to sites with low domain scores, for the main part, as well as linking on international domains.

SEO isn't always easy, fun, and exciting, but as long as you want to learn how to do it, you can achieve first page. I promise with hard work, you can save a lot of money and see results.

Their client www.xoticdreamcars.com who are chasing the keyword "exotic car rental" as advertised on their site isnt on the TOP 5 on google ranking.

I do understand it's a very highly competitive keyword :

| <a class="aw-ti-resultsPanel-details">exotic car rental</a> | High | 201,000 | 135,000 (from Google's keyword tool) |

However, in my opinion it's best if you learned how to SEO for your niche market. Like you have said SEOmoz is a great resource and it's time you take a crack at it.

I'll give you a few tips too.

There's a starter guide for SEO on here, I don't have a direct link for it so please look it up.

Get Google Chrome Browser and get the SEOmoz toolbar plugin, it checks homepage Domain Authorities and Page Authorities. In my opinion, your best bet is find sites in your relevant area and back link from their site to yours.

Another tip, see those sites that micrositez use for their Google results? Good. Now open up http://www.opensiteexplorer.org

and type in those sites they list, and check their inbound links and anchor texts. You will see where they link to, the domain scores, and what kind of links they give to their customers.

Now ask yourself, is this something I want to do?

SEOmoz as well as the internet also offer FREE advice how to fix your homepage.. ie..H1 tags, no duplicate content, proper title pages, no 404s, original content(the most important factor)

So please, save yourself that money and enjoy happy hour somewhere.

Thank you Thomas.

I just used that search query, and I received only 3 results. I am 100% sure we have more than 3 sites linking to us..lol. We are back linked to 1,000s of sites. Is there another search query.

Basically, I want to see our competitor's backlinks. I have used open site explorer, but they only pull up back links that are months to years old. I want to see if they have any fresh back links, and also to check if the back links we have provided are index and searchable on open site explorer(which i've only seen 1 new back link that's 2 months old).

Any ideas?

Hello,

I've been using open site explorer, dabbled with seo spy glass, and other back linking sites, but I was wondering if there was a manual way of searching for back links? Such as site.www.widgets.com +keyword -widgets.com to show me results of all the sites pointing to www.widgets.com, or pointing to the keywords linking to widgets.com. I do enjoy Open Site Explorer, but it takes a few months index the back links ive done.

No. Only things you can do, as far as I know are:

1. clear your history(i do from the beginning of time)

2. Sign out of Google/Gmail

3. Make sure your preference search is set to OFF.

since I keep track of my keywords on a google doc, I just open up Internet Explorer and save the rankings on there(I use dual monitors).

High Domain authority > Relevancy of site(if it's a low domain site)

I usually find that high domain authority sites even if they are not relevant give you a bigger boost than relevant sites with less Domain authority.

I would take the Pope's irrelevant link as well, if the domain authority was higher than the PR7 site.

What I'm saying is that it seems there more credibility to pages with higher domain authority than Page Rank.

From what I'm reading it seems like Page Rank is dead. or at least counts for only 5% of ranking algorithm today.

reference page site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday

So what I'm getting at is DA>relevance when it comes to ranking.

Although I believe it's nice to have  High Domain Authority / Relevance sites, it's hard to get on them when you're back linking to niche keywords in a world of big brand competitors or your competition is just spam linking(which is a factor why they are number #1). They are  linked to over 2k domains while we are close to 600.

I figure the more domains you are linked to the better.

The better domain authority, (regardless of relevance or Page Rank) will boost your rank.

I believe that Domain authority plays a bigger part in ranking than relevance. However, I do believe that Relevance will play just as equal part as domain authority in future google updates.

I am also open to constructive criticism.

For back linking, what is more important for increasing rank for organic searches on Google?

I've noticed that linking on sites with high domain authority that have some or no relevance boost my keyword ranking. However, does back linking on relevant sites help if their domain authority is not so high?

might be related to the new google algorithm update that happened yesterday. also happened to a specific high ranking keyword landing page for the company's domain site I work at.

went from rank #2 to #12 over night.

Keyword BMW Wheels

now our other landing page has taken the #2 spot, our BMW replica wheels.

http://www.webpronews.com/google-algorithm-new-updates-announced-2011-12

I think our site is affected by

"Related query results refinements: Sometimes we fetch results for queries that are similar to the actual search you type. This change makes it less likely that these results will rank highly if the original query had a rare word that was dropped in the alternate query. For example, if you are searching for [rare red widgets], you might not be as interested in a page that only mentions “red widgets.”" - Webpronews.com

any ideas? or am I wrong?

Thank you both for your replies,

I personally find the site too overwhelming, and there are a lot of internal linking to the same types of products.

if removing the keywords in our meta tags and meta keywords to make them less spammy, will it help?

Good day,

I am an intern at http://www.modbargains.com, and for the longest period of time we were able to maintain the #1 position for the keyword "Bmw Wheels" however, within the last few months, one of our competitors has outranked us, and taken our #1 spot. We have dropped down to rank #3. I have looked at the metrics located here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.modbargains.com&comparisons%5B0%5D=www.usarim.com

and from what I gather, they have us beat on the key areas, such as external followed linking, followed linking root domains, and linking c block.

I am still trying to figure out what all these mean, and I have been losing sleep over it. Any detailed analysis in layman's terms or suggestions would be great. Thank you all!