Ripping into the big boys
I had to send a email out today and I got a bit of perverse pleasure from writting it, basically we are in the situation where we are trying to convince a possible client to leave a big boy and become our client. Which enabel me in a very polit way to rip apart another SEO link building activity. Which mean I have the fantasic chance to write this lovely email:
I have search on yahoo for links to ###### that has been found in the last 3 months. It has returned 61 good results. Which I have then gone through manually, these are my findings.
Out of the 61 links 47 of them will not be counted in google for these reason (20 not Cached, 2 no live links, 3 the link had been removed, 8 were no followed, 2 javascript redirects, 5 errored and 5 were rejected as duplicates)
Out of the 15 links that did count 13 of them were rated as 0 in the google pagerank.
The two that had page rank were:
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Which was a really nice PR 4 links page that had multiple links back to the site with good anchor text.
and
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This was PR 2 blog roll link, this was pretty good to, should stand the test of time.I did the same report on google to see what pages it had picked up in the last month and it returned 4 pages, not all linking, but google only reports 12 links in total (but as we all know google lies).
Press release:
I had a quick look at a press release related to the website and found that it had 9 pages in the google index, probable discredited by the duplicate filter.######
I have seen little follow up news stories related to this, press releases are only really worth something if website pick them up and run stories about them. I saw one press type story when looking at the links:
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This is the only useful news I could find connect to the site. I might have found more if I had increased the time period I was looking at.
Type of links built
Another thing that is worth noting is the manner in which the links have been built apart from the two mentioned above. 70% of the links built were from directories, mainly free low quality ones, 10% were from press release which got caught in the duplicate filter.I hope this help anything else you need please give me a shout.
It's nice to look at someone else handy work. I really do believe we can do a so much better job. We just have better resources and we know what we are doign more that sounds silly but the big boys charge so much more than us and they are lazy by the look of it all they are doing is submitting to hundreds of free or cheap directories.
Anyway just a couple of shout outs to friend Calf implant uk and snack and drink vending machines all very good people. Thanks for the support.