Link Building on Blog Posts w/ Ads & Mostly Pictures
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I found a group of similar websites that offer anchor text links with good to great domain and page authority (30 to 75), but I'm not sure how "safe" they are. Most of their posts are compilations of images/logos and there are a lot of ads on the page.
Would links from sites like TutorialChip.com help or would Google discount them because of the nature of the site?
Thanks!
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should I still avoid an anchor text link from the first paragraph of this page: http://www.tutorialchip.com/inspiration/20-most-famous-round-corner-business-cards-designs/
For this page, specifically yes - The page is almost a year old, so adding an anchor text link to this specific page, without a major content revision would provide almost nothing in my opinion (from SEO perspective)
If you are paying to have your product on there like the others, then this would need to be No-followed per Webmaster guidelines (if no indexed no SEO benefit would really be seen if left indexed you run the "risk" of violating Google Guidelines
Would a few links from blog networks be harmful if we had a lot more "white hat" links to offset them?
Depends completely on you link portfolio, as even "white hat" these days is sometimes "Grey Hat" so one more link could be all it takes to push you over the edge, of course I am only playing devils advocate, but when giving advice I try not to give risky advice.
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Thanks for your response! I don't want to take big risks, but I do want to diversify our incoming links. Would a few links from blog networks be harmful if we had a lot more "white hat" links to offset them?
One of the products my company offers is business cards, and if "Round corner business cards" is a good keyword for our business card page, should I still avoid an anchor text link from the first paragraph of this page: http://www.tutorialchip.com/inspiration/20-most-famous-round-corner-business-cards-designs/
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I agree with this if all they are offering is literally an anchor text link and no kind of article submission.
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Specifically for the link given above -
I would not....
There appears to be 2 options
1. Impression based ad service (which is cool, if you think you will see ROI from the people who would be on this site, but I have no idea what you are promoting/selling)
2. Linkroll or "Friends" which again, if you think you will see ROI from being in a 20+ list of varying services... Sure go for it.
But from an SEO perspective, a cautious approach would be NO - On the other hand, if you are a risk taker ----- who knows what Google does or does not penalize these days.... (I am not sure they even know anymore)
Shane
PS Option 3 is your links embedded in text or others articles, which sounds like a blog network to me... Which would change to NOOOOOOO
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They don't seem that bad. It's just the thumbnail but you can continue into a bigger article. As long as there is good relevant content within and its not just an anchor text sat on its own or a site wide link I don't see why this would be a bad linking opportunity.
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