Christoph C Cemper - LAC 2017 - Link building & off-page SEO for 2017 and beyond

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Link building & off-page SEO for 2017 and beyond

@cemper

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Hey London!

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About Christoph C. Cemper

Founder & CEO of

SEO & Marketing since 2003

@cemper

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Orange Jacket and SEO

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„SEO Scandal“

https://blog.terrykyle.com/backlinks/

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#TBF – Throwback Friday – SEOkomm 2011

SEOkomm 2011 Presentation – „Link-Datenbanken im Vergleich“ – Christoph C. Cemper

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Combine and re-crawl as many link sources

as possible.

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Some quotes…From last year…

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„The penalty scared me, so I didn‘t do a thing with links“

- Ingo, 2016

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„Penguin Shock“

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Fear the Penalty better doing nothing?

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Do we know all about Links?

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Canonical‘ed LinksLinks from a REL-Canonical page

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Do they “count”?

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REL-Canonical = „Preferred Version“

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page as part of search engine optimization. It is described in RFC 6596, which went live in April 2012.

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page A Rel-canonical

page

ME

Link counts?How much?page

THEMLink counts?

Link

sLink

s

Link

s

No link on A!

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Google confirms: Links are important

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Google‘s John Müller

Links in particular are really important to Google.

September 2016

And also…

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Links still No#1 Ranking Factor

March 2016

Andrey Lipattsev – Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google’s March 2016

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YOU CAN NOTNOT SEE IT.

Or “switch off”.

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Understanding Not All Links Are

Equal

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NOT ALL LINKS

ARE EQUAL!

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JUST COUNTING LINKS?

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DO NOT JUST ASK

HOW MANY LINKS ?

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BUT ASK

HOW MANY LINKS

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ASK FOR

HOW MANY LINKINGPAGES …

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ASK FOR

HOW MANY LINKING

DOMAINS…

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ASK FOR

HOW MANY LINKING

ROOT-DOMAINS…

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ASK FOR

HOW MANY LINKS PER

MONTH(Link Velocity Trends)

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ASK FOR

WHICH TYPE OF LINKS

(Follow, NoFollow, Redirects, Javascript, Frames, …)

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ASK FOR

WHICH LINKING POWER…

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ASK FOR

WHICH LINKINGTRUST…

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ASK FOR

WHICH LINKING RISK…

(Link Detox Risk)

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ASK FOR

WHICH LINKING

KEYWORD?(commercial or branded)

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AND MORE ASPECTS

… for EACH LINK.

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EXAMPLE: “1000 backlinks”

A single domain linking out from 1.000 sub-pages

IS NOT LIKE1.000 domains linking to you

from a single page

Therefore: “Site-Wide Filter”

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BUT How many linking PAGES and how many linking DOMAINS?

and FOLLOW vs. NOFOLLOW? and POWER? TRUST? and LINK VELOCITY?

BRAND VS. MONEY?….

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Google Penguinchanged SEO

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What is Google Penguin?

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AutomatedLink Spam Fighter

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History of Google Penguin Updates

THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS…

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How does a Google Penguin Penalty

look like?

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a 99% TRAFFIC DROP hurts

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Link Detox Risk®This can mean

a penalty

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NEW in Google Penguin 4.0

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Google Penguin 4.0

“Real Time“Negative SEO

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/questions-answers-real-time-penguin/

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“Granular Effects“

= specific Filter for

DirectoriesSub PagesKeywords

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/granular-real-time-google-penguin/

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Disavow-File Upload NOT ENOUGH

Links must be re-crawled

… for the Disavow to work

AND NEW: … that Penguin signals get calc’ed.

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BECAUSE…

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

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UP TO 9 MONTHS…

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3 DAYS usingLink Detox Boost

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Audit Your FULLBacklink Profile

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Audit Your FULLBacklink Profile

Not just a couple %

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If you have 17 M linksThen Looking at 500k

of them is NOT

A „Top Level“ Approach?

(as an expert called it)

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If you have 17 M linksThen Looking at 500k

IS

a mere 3 %

~ 1/30th of your work

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Looking at 500k links of 17M is not an awful lot.

What 500k links of 17M links mean for your backlink audit coverage

Links You Audited Links You Didn't Audit

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Not All Redirects are equal

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• http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/double-manual-google-penalty-success-302-redirects-harmful/

August 1, 2014 

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https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC

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https://twitter.com/randfish/status/758001482935341056

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We want to push rankings with Links and Redirects and not „Pass Page Rank“

That’s been the case forever

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extremely shortened…

(months of SEO tests)

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TestedTested

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/11-things-didnt-know-links-redirects/

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Conclusion „Anchor Text Passing“

via 301, 302, 307ONLY the 302 seems fast and stable!

Tested

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/11-things-didnt-know-links-redirects/

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http://lrt.li/seotestsRegister for FREE

SEO DIY Test Kit Tested

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Redirects pass Link Penalties

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Since Penguin 2.0 2013!

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Penalty via Redirect – “How it works”

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http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/penguin-2-0-penalty-home24-de/

2.0

HOME24 - 2013

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Old Linkshelp you, if you keep

them

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Deleted links will let you drop.

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“Ranking without Links” ~2014

A really strong Power*Trust-Link deleted in Feb’14.And down we go…

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Monitor your Backlinks

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Reclaim your Links!

Link Juice Recovery= Website Relaunch Tool

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Link Building with Broken Links

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WIKI “Broken Links”

Find broken links (I.e. in Wikipedia)

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WIKIGRABBER

http://www.webpagefx.com/seo-tools/wikigrabber/search/

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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-research-seo-toolbar/eagkigdnclikabndlojagifehppodooi/

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Check My Links

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/check-my-links/ojkcdipcgfaekbeaelaapakgnjflfglf

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„NEW“: Links also from sub pages!

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Also called “Presell Pages”

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http://diggitymarketing.com/topically-relevant-pbns/

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PRESELL PAGES?

Instead of “Home page links”

1. A sub page with very good relevant content2. Home page link and/or category link to

that page3. Link from that “relevant page” to you

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PRESELL PAGES?

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PRO TIP: Build Links to Your Links

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PRO TIP: Promote „Your Links“

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The BEST Links

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The BEST Linksare the links that your competitors cannot get.

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http://lrt.li/hello

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FREEBrowser

Extensions

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Link Redirect Trace

Understand all your redirects in all detail

Improve User-Experience - Find and fix slow

redirects using redirect timings

Spot On-page SEO issues

Analyze and reduce redirect hops

Track links from advertising & affiliate networks

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LRT Power*Trust

See the Power and Trust of a domain

See the Power and Trust of a page

Discover great places to get links from

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Link Research SEO Toolbar

See the Power and Trust of a domain or page

Discover great places to get links from

See how successful a page is on social media

Understand user engagement

See the strongest pages by Keyword Ranking

Spot drastic changes in the number of links

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