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Hey guys!

I would appreciate some input on 301 redirecting an expired domain.

I just bought an expired domain with a good link profile, unrelated to my niche. All the links are spread to inner pages that looks like this: domain.com/Article=212323-x-whatbro34XY

At first my plan was to do a simple 301 redirect, but then I started reading about it and people seem to be quite negative to 301 redirects now days.

What do you guys think? Would you have done a 301 direct or rather making it a PBN-site?

Both the domain and my money site are in a small European country that nobody cares about. :-)

Thanks!
 
Redirect the inner pages to new related inner pages.

If the links still have traffic, then you should focus on those, since they are more likely to rank.
 
@Olov, the 301 redirecting is fine, but my only concern is that it's unrelated. You could be wasting your time with Google ignoring the links or devaluing them, or you could set yourself up for a possibly penalty in the future, because this is definitely coming down the Google pipeline sooner or later.
 
Hey everyone! I need to get back into these forums. Love seeing my old thread still running HOT! I am still a "newbie" I suppose, but not as woefully ignorant as I was when I first found you guys. The DIGITAL CRASH COURSE is STILL about the best thing to be found anywhere on "the net." I am somewhere along my journey where I still have questions, but they are much better questions. I might even be able to answer a few things here and there. HAPPY 2019

P.S. Pretty great to be back here and look around on the TWO-YEAR Anniversary of meeting you guys.
 
We all good with posting Amazon affiliate links directly to Facebook Groups?
 
mj22 said:
I've never ran a forum before lol
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To those who have: is starting a forum worthwhile in 2019?

I ran one with success a 2 decades ago and have been thinking of starting another lately. The niche is asking for it but I imaging the participation rate is still lower than a decade ago (before Facebook groups, Reddit, etc)

I see more and more "private communities" now that people pay to be a member of. I could see this could be an option for my niche.
 
Hey guys.

I was looking into my interlinks today. And I noticed a lot of irrelevant interlinks on my posts according to GSC.

When I checked for those pages I noticed that every page have 2 interlinks at the end of the content that says "next article is: Name of the next article" and the same for the previous article. That's just how my WP theme works.

Most of the time, those links are pointing to the pages that are not relevant to the content. Does Google know that this are not "real" interlinks or do I have to do something about it? And if I do, is there some plugin for it or will I have to do some changes in the code? Thanks.
 
One email - 2 lists. Here is my question :

I am doing a promo with another entrepreneur and I want to have my audience opt into both our email lists in exchange for a free giveaway. How would I set that up? I dont want to have them add their emails to two forms on the page. Do you all know of any plug and play resources that would help do this?
 
Magister said:
Hey guys.

I was looking into my interlinks today. And I noticed a lot of irrelevant interlinks on my posts according to GSC.

When I checked for those pages I noticed that every page have 2 interlinks at the end of the content that says "next article is: Name of the next article" and the same for the previous article. That's just how my WP theme works.

Most of the time, those links are pointing to the pages that are not relevant to the content. Does Google know that this are not "real" interlinks or do I have to do something about it? And if I do, is there some plugin for it or will I have to do some changes in the code? Thanks.
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I don't think Google is making any assumptions and is likely looking at those as internal links, especially if you're seeing them in GSC. To be honest it reminded me to remove them from one of my sites. I'm assuming you're on wordpress. If so, don't add a plugin. You don't need any more bloat. Make sure you're using a child theme and find your content-single.php file. Look for it in the code, it might vary from theme to theme but I just commented out the two lines below where the content appears.
 
Do you have any tips for asking for further product information? I mailed some companies and also got into touch via Facebook, but got very few responses. I need some extra information for a product comparison table, and some companies have very barren product descriptions.


If you find yourself in that spot, how do you maneuver? Because I feel like I am not doing it right. I just upfront told them what I am doing and that their information would be appreciated. Do I just have to be more patient?

I have been waiting for responses for a little shy of 4 days now. Can't take that long?
 
goin4destiny said:
I have been waiting for responses for a little shy of 4 days now. Can't take that long?
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Some companies take about a week to reply to emails. Some get absolutely slammed with questions and have a constant backlog to chew through. I just shot off an email myself and don't expect to hear back at least until the middle of next week if not the end of it.
 
is there an easy way to find as many of the medium domain authority sites in a specific niche as I can. For example, say my niche is "memes" and I want to know all the medium sized meme sites that still get traffic from Google, but not the really big guns like KnowYourMeme. How do I go about finding those DA 25-50 range sites?
 
Probably the easiest is Scrapebox. You won't even need proxies if you randomize the scrape time and set it to a single thread with slow search times. Enter keywords and let it go in the background. When it's done, you can de-dupe the list and check metrics, then filter by the metric ranges you want. The only thing easier than scraping this yourself is paying someone else to do it.
 
Sending a 301 to a reddit post that has a link to my site?

I'm thinking of sending a really high end 301 to a reddit post that will link to my site.

Do you guys think this will have a positive effect in serps on a site 2 months old?
 
bilderberger said:
Can anyone tell me how many backlinks I need to rank first for "payday loans"? :neutral:
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Not that many, you just need more relevant, more aged, and more pagerank juiced ones than your competitors. If your competitor has 1,000 relevant backlinks, you need 1,001+ that are relevant, powerful and send more pagerank juice.

It’s not difficult knowing how.

(I know some of your guys are extremely slow and are going to complain that pagerank is gone - it is not, it is hidden from public, there are nearly equivalent metrics like moz DA/PA, ahrefs, majestic, and semrush which you can gather into a spreadsheet and make educated guesses on which competitors are the most powerful. I can’t even believe I have to write this disclaimer in 2019.)
 
Never hired a linkbuilder before, but thinking about contracting somebody to do some daily link outreach. Not PBNs or blog comments or sketchy sites or link trades, but yes on things like guest posts, broken link building, generally clever strategies. i've done this for my sites on my own, never hired for it.

how do I go about finding somebody good and reliable? How is payment structured? per link? hourly? fixed fee? How much should I expect to be paying? Looked at some agencies that charge an arm and a leg

Realistically, I'd be fine with a few solid, successfully placed links per day. Am I even thinking about this the right way?
 
pluto said:
good to know on the linkbuilder question. was hoping there'd be some "oh just go here and there are smart people who are good at outreach or have outreach automation that doesn't completely suck, so it'll be cheaper" but i suppose that's too good to be true. i guess i'll have to stick to doing it myself haha. if we are talking "doing it right with the right person", do you know how much I should be expecting to pay? like $10k a month was what I was seeing....but man that's a lot
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This does exist. It exists right here on BuSo. @Steve Brownlie and @GarrettGraff have outreach as automated as you can get it, supply the content, etc. And it's not a monthly charge, it's pay per link. Hit them up, their prices are as reasonable as they come. It's not extremely cheap but it's a great price if you can afford to get it completely off your plate and onto theirs.

Otherwise you'll have to remain in the trenches and do it yourself or find some cheap virtual assistants from India or the Philippines to help you out. But now you're talking about training someone, providing content, managing and overseeing operations, etc.
 
Alright, so I targeted the US market and have not bothered to sign up for any Amazon Affilate programs except the US version. Yet now I have keywords in India and get visitors from there. I understand that there are methods to make links global, but I have a problem. I don't just link the products, I use the Amazon Text + Image embedded version for better visuals.

How do I keep these visuals and still globalize the reffering link? And why does Amazon not simply offer a global programm?
 
Hey, not sure where to ask so trying here:
In my recent site, have around 50 posts but only 2 of them are important = money posts, dont ask why, just only those two are important for me right now. Just for saying: 1 post is already ranking TOP 10 for main kw but at the bottom, the second post is still new but I expect same results in the near future.
Domain age: <1 year old (10 months)

What would you do in terms of internal linking of those 2 posts to get the most from the internal linking power?

Right now:
  1. Both posts are linked from homepage with exact match anchors.
  2. Both posts have few internal links from other posts with partial anchors, generals just to look natural. Right now 4 posts internally link to post 1 and 3 posts internally link to post 2
What I dont have:
1. Related posts plugin. Everything is linked only contextualy from other posts...

The thing is that is possible to add the most important pages/posts in to the menu, footer or sidebar with plugins. Will you do that? Ofcourse in menu, there are already categories, about, contact etc, so dont know how this would fit there
Or I should find maybe more relevant posts around the site and link back to those 2 posts?

I know its maybe just lacking the age but I want to help it as much as possible, is there anything what would you reccomend me in terms of internal linking / site structure? Or Im fine?
 
goin4destiny said:
How do I keep these visuals and still globalize the reffering link?
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Have you done any research to see of Amazon OneLink does this for you, specifically with the Text + Image Embed? It's a link to their javascript file you slap in your footer and it changes your affiliate links to route the user through their IP detection and redirection process. My bet is it works just fine.

micho24 said:
Or I should find maybe more relevant posts around the site and link back to those 2 posts?
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This is your best bet. You can link back with anchors that are variations of the main term, the main term itself some more, etc. Contextual links are going to flow the most page rank and relevancy signals too, I believe. The sidebar/footer/navigation are supplemental content, and I believe they flow less of everything because they're boiler plate and not related to the main content. But you can slap things in the footers and sidebars and all that. I've done it. I'd do that with the user's in mind though for the most part.
 
If someone's tiering their links through a page on my site, and I'm concerned about my site but not that page do I have to disavow every individual link or can I 404 the page?

Does it have the same effect?
 
@jjj_ A 404 error will clean up the links in time. It takes time for Google to crawl the page and accept the 404. If you want them to accept it's really gone the first time you can make it throw a 410 error, which means "Gone," whereas a 404 means "Not Found."

Alternatively if the content is good and you want the page to exist, you can disavow them which renders them "nofollow" the next time Google crawls the backlinks.
 
I think this is called 'Silo" what he's referring to with the internal linking structure. Is it not?
 
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