Low quality links for Amazon product page=high rank?
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I am wondering if there would be any benefit in using low cost link building gigs off of fiverr and seoclerks for specific Amazon product pages.
The theory I have heard behind this is Amazon's authority is so high, that even the bad links pointing to the specific product page add to the SEO of the page. When google see's a product page on Amazon, they already assign it a high authority, so links help google see which page is the most popular in that niche, and ranks it.
Amazon product pages already rank high in google search results, so the idea is this would give specific pages a little boost.
Do you think this is a valid method for getting a specific amazon product page to rank high on google search?
I understand this is not the normal type of question here, and it really only applies to Amazon product pages specifically, and not normal sites.
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If you don't mind, stop by and let us all know how this works for you. I'm curious myself.
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Reputation and product ratings is top notch, sessions (Amazon's way of saying unique visitors in a 24 hour time) is low, and it is dramatically fallen off with one of our competitors coming from out of no where. It appears the only difference is they have a bunch of low quality links to their product page, which seems to have resulted their specific product page being the #1 result in google.
It's a pretty competitive keyword, nearly 50 million broad results and 8 million exact matches.
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While I can't endorse the tactic, SEOs have been doing it for many years on various "parasite" domains, as well as for laundering sub-par links through another site that links to them.
On the other hand, I would put my efforts toward improving my reputation on Amazon if I had the choice (though maybe you're doing both). What would help way more than sub-par external links would be more internal links from other Amazon.com pages to your product page, seller page, etc... You get those by having a good reputation, getting good reviews, competitive prices, etc...
Good luck!
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This is definitely grey hat territory. I haven't tried this specific tactic myself, but it could potentially work. The only way to know for sure is to test it. At worst you'll be down $5-$10 from fiverr gigs. At best, you could be making some nice sales over Amazon.
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