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Duplicate external links?
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I have been guest posting at a variety of reputable blogs in my niche. I generally write once or twice a month and have a bio link with a link to my blog. I'm wondering if multiple links from the same domain (but different pages) helps, or if there are some diminishing returns here. Should I only be writing one post for them?
Of course, there are other non-SEO benefits too, because these are reputable sites. But I'm wondering how this helps my SEO?
Thanks in advance!
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I think you are taking my comments out of context. I said "You need to look at it from the context of your overall links". This is about having a natural link profile. This can be variety of link sources, link quality profile, Moz rank variation of your link sources etc. If the 120 links you got from the great blog posts at SEOmoz only contributes to a small percentage of your total links then you should be alright. If it however contributes to +80% of all your links then that is a warning sign.
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Hi Jodi,
Keep up the good work. If you are creating useful content in niche related blogs, that is educating or entertaining to the users you are doing exactly what search engines want. Adding value.
Of course, there are other non-SEO benefits too, because these are reputable sites. But I'm wondering how this helps my SEO?
If you are creating great articles that people are sharing and interacting with, the article will get linked to naturally and gain credibility. Just make sure your are linking your guest blog posts to your site via anchor text in a natural manner. 50% URL or Brand name, 25% long tail anchor text, 25% the Exact keywords you want to rank for.
Hope this helps.
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I don't think a couple of links from the same domain is going to hurt you. If it becomes too many then it loses it natural value.
Sorry I have to disagree. If I am a contributing author of SEOmoz.org and I am getting 120 links for contributing 120 great posts in its blog, Google is not going to penalize me for sure. So, as long as the articles are great, and you are doing guest posts for traffic, you are safe. Rather I would go against the idea of guest posting just for the sake of link building.
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I don't think a couple of links from the same domain is going to hurt you. If it becomes too many then it loses it natural value. You need to look at it from the context of your overall links. If you have 200 links and 100 of them is coming from about 5 -10 domains then you have a problem. Link source diversity and anchor text variation is important
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