Andy Langton
msg:4501395 | 11:49 pm on Sep 28, 2012 (gmt 0) |
The way I look at it is that a listing in Business.com is just a paid directory listing like any other. Sure, they have a nice domain name, but I don't think I've ever come across a visitor who would have placed any value on whether a company was listed there. Personally I doubt it's worth the effort.
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plc90210
msg:4501409 | 12:59 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
"The way I look at it is that a listing in Business.com is just a paid directory listing like any other."
So it will pass pagerank/anchor text?
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Andem
msg:4501437 | 2:48 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| So it will pass pagerank/anchor text? |
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No. Links go through a redirect script which are noindexed. [bs.serving-sys.com...]
On a side note, business.com seems like the typical site which Google hates and a scam nonetheless.
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plc90210
msg:4501440 | 2:57 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
"On a side note, business.com seems like the typical site which Google hates and a scam nonetheless."
If that were the case, wouldn't they have deindexed them or at least caused their pagerank to drop, like they do with all sites that they find are selling links?
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Andem
msg:4501443 | 3:12 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| wouldn't they have deindexed them or at least caused their pagerank to drop |
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Not necessarily. Business.com is a brand (but not in my part of the woods) and they don't break any guidelines since they don't sell PageRank. The scam is that they appear to sell PR -- they don't. The vast majority of the "SEO" business is a scam.
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plc90210
msg:4501444 | 3:19 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
"Links go through a redirect script which are noindexed."
How do you determine that?
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klark0
msg:4501445 | 3:25 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| No. Links go through a redirect script which are noindexed. |
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False. The directory listings are direct links and are dofollow. They have seperate paid ads that are redirected. Take a look again.
I don't see them any different from Yahoo/DMOZ which are also good editorial links to get. Just like Yahoo, you're paying for consideration without a guarantee and that's fine with Google.
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Andem
msg:4501447 | 3:32 am on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| False. The directory listings are direct links and are dofollow |
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My bad. You are correct, they are dofollow links without redirects. I still believe they are viewed as useless backlinks by Google's algorithms.
There definitely is editorial oversight, but it is lazy at best. I highly doubt Google gives much, if any, weight to links from business.com.
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plc90210
msg:4501644 | 4:21 pm on Sep 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Anyone else have other comments/opinions? I want to make sure I get as many opinions as possible before I decide to spend money on this.
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viralvideowall
msg:4502695 | 9:12 pm on Oct 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Not sure after the recent Google exact match domain slap. Maybe it's worthless now?
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potentialgeek
msg:4502710 | 10:02 pm on Oct 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Go to Alexa.com and look up its graph. Panda killed it.
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plc90210
msg:4502747 | 12:07 am on Oct 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
The thread isn't about its traffic/ranking, it's about the value of backlinks from it.
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