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Recently I’ve been adding “outbound” links to some of my smaller sites as an experiment. The criteria I use for adding a link are as follows:
1) It must rank in the Top 2 in Google/Yahoo for at least one given term
2) That term is the only one I will use as anchor text
3) The subject matter of the page must correspond to the subject matter on my page but not a direct competitor on the exact term I want.
4) The domain/site must be at least a year old, hosted in the country my site is in and the content useful/interesting.I often link to a front page, often deeper, depending on which one ranks. By targetting “Top 3” and aging sites with good content, it’s just common sense that says it’s good, Google likes it and my visitors will get a benefit from it. I don’t use “nofollow” as I believe that negates the effect.
Anyway – I’m seeing some increases in SERPS on these pages – not huge jumps, I’ve only added a few links so far – but enough to make a difference and seeing as it is all I am doing on SEO right now, I suspect this is helping. The way I see it, it can’t do me too much harm if I’m wrong anyway – as long as the sites I link to are not “bad”!!
So anyone want to play? If you post below any pages where you rank 1-3 in Google/Yahoo (.com or .co.uk) I’ll take a look and may choose to add some, no obligation on your part.
Similarly, if anyone wants one or two to play with then here are some of mine that rank high:
Page: http://www.livedealercasinos.net
Hosted: USA
Ranks: #1 in Google.com for “live dealer casinos”Page: http://www.oggs.com
Hosted: UK
Ranks: #3 in Google.co.uk for “online casino reviews”Page: http://www.slottournaments.net
Hosted: US
Ranks: #2 in Yahoo.com for “online slot tournaments”Cheers
Simmo!
Only too happy to help!
Page: http://www.fortunepalace.co.uk/online-casino-deposit-guide.html
Hosted: UK
Ranks: #1 in yahoo.com (#2 in uk.yahoo.com) for “casino deposit guide”If you put it up, let me know where and I’ll give you a similar link to a different site.
Cheers,
@Fortune Palace 167085 wrote:
If you put it up, let me know where and I’ll give you a similar link to a different site.
Cheers,
No need mate
I’ve added this to one of my smaller US hosted sites by the way because a) it lacks textual detail and b) the text that is there seems a bit “keywordy” (ie: it looks like it was written for SE’s rather than humans) but is still worthy of an on-topic contextual link on one of my small sites based on the Yahoo ranking and the fact the links out from that page are potentially useful to players. It would benefit us both (you more than me) if you could add a couple of informative paragraphs of “human-facing” text on deposit and cashout options to fill it out.
Still happy to consider sites to link to if people want me too
You don’t happen to have any Canadian hosted sites do you, Simmo?
http://www.presidentialsuitecasino.com
Ranks #1 for ‘real money casino’.
@tryme1 168132 wrote:
You don’t happen to have any Canadian hosted sites do you, Simmo?
http://www.presidentialsuitecasino.com
Ranks #1 for ‘real money casino’.
I don’t but I suspect that US/Canada are pretty similar in Goog’s eyes. However, and no offence meant here, but I’m not really a fan of the white-label casino concept I’m afraid tryme so will have to pass on that one. Sorry.
No offense taken. Each to their own, right.
I can verify that us and canada are different to Google. I know a marking device site that is top 5 on canadian google indices but second page in the us. This despite the fact that it caters solely to use clients and seemingly because it is hosted in Canada.
