What is domain linking and linking root domains?
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Hey guys!
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I ran the report on my site and it says what I am primarily missing is domain linking....
What is this? it says I only have 3 of them for the specific term / subpage I am going after.
In addition what does Linking Root Domains mean in my report?
Thanks much!
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You may have 1000's of links pointing to your root domain, however, if you are trying to rank a sub-page for a specific term, you may want to find unique domains that can provide direct links to the target page (anchor and generic), thereby increasing your overall linking domain count for both your domain and sub-page
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Ok, I understand the linking root domains but I have literally thousands of links to my MAIN domain. But I am also building links to my actual sub-pages so I can obtain better rankings for that term. What am I doing wrong?
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Linking Root Domains are the number of Individual Websites that are linking to you. For example, if you have 1000 links but they all come from different pages on the same website, that counts as only 1 Linking Root Domain.
My guess is that you need to acquire links to your homepage and your site as a whole from a wide range of different websites so as to build up your general site authority.
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