SEO ranking question
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Hey,
If a site for had a series of articles, and had the privilege of guest posting on several sites, such as mashable, entrepreuner.com, inc.com, and a few other not as big sites.
and let us also say that this site is new and currently has pagerank of 0.
How would the above benefit the site and the visibility of the articles on google?
Also, with guest-posting, is it problematic to have the exact article also on your site?
thanks in advance!
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I understand what you are saying and its not as cut and dry as that.
Any sites profile that consists mostly of high PR links is going to fall into a suspect filter by Google.
Also every phrase is different. Some may be easy to achieve and others have a lot of competition. So would need more links etc..
i have seen a site dominate a very good keyword because they have one PR5 from a government website. Outranking big brands with a large solid link profile.
I would say don't go crazy, take it step by step and watch the results, be patient, if you rush into it and trip a Google filter for over optimization it will be harder to correct and will look less natural to get all these high PR links in such a short space of time.
Be diverse with anchors, don't use anchor text that are keywords, let your landing pages do all the hard work.
But in short just one Good link can do the job these days.
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If I understand correctly. It is just duplicating content that is an issue.
I think my real question is, if you can get clean (google approved) links from powerful websites, how many would you need to really increase your rankings?
lets say 5 pr7-9 sites linked to your new site, is that enough to get on page 1 for that article they are linking to or whatever keywords your site tends to attract?
does that make sense?
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I hear you and it has got out of control.
I am very frustrated by the whole process too. A lot of the time it is very clear when the article has been ghost or guest posted. The focus is on your company and the link goes to your company.
Read what is about to be posted back to yourself and see if its a little sales'ie, what else would be useful to the actual customer? A link also to one of your competitors? I know its horrible to think about but doesnt that look more natural? And the author should never be you it should be the sites author if it is pushing a service/brand.
If its advice and not self promotion pushing you site then great, I would use your name as the author. But that does not seem to be your goal?
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How does Google know that the person writing the blog post is also the owner of the site it's linking to? Does it match the names ? Far out , now we can't even write posts for large websites and link back to our own sites to reference examples or specific products we are writing about? shouldn't the fact the author is authoritative enough to be publishing work on BIG important website hold the same weight as if someone else wrote it and added the link. I mean clearly these blogs are approved by the BIG sites editors, its not as if the blogger hacked the site and added a blog post with links ...
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If you do this and I do not advise it
Then they should point to relevant places on the site that article is referring too. If you get a penalty as a result of this it is best that they DO NOT point to the homepage. This way it is easier for you to 401 the page they point to while you work to have the links removed.
It can have a very fast impact in getting you results in Google with powerful sites like that.
If you are going to link to yourself, DO NOT use keywords. Use your domain name, URL, more here, click here, etc.. something generic. This will be seen as less manipulative.
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Thanks Gary!
just learning how to do it right.
So lets say we posted the series of these articles and were in fact able to get these big sites to link to is. How would this affect the ranking of a site that is new and the links should they be direct to the articles or to the site?
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First off I suspect those sites would take issue with you having the same article on their site.
If you are the publisher of the article and you plan on getting a dofollow link from them to your new site, I would seriously look at a different type of marketing. Google's last Penguin update hit that style of link building pretty hard.
The article would get decent visibility being hosted on those powerful sites and could pass some traffic through to your site if its compelling and matches what the user is looking for.
If you want to get links to your site I would suggest you write those great articles and host them on your site,you then reach out to those sites and tell them about your wonderful service and how you think it would benefit their users to know about it. Then you hope that they write something about you and post a link to your site. That's how Google want it to happen.
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