They never give explanations for anything whether its a paid or a free service!! The only difference is that normally with a paid service you can eventually find a telephone line that may attempt to help you, where as the free ones there no telephone line.
They do help a bit, but the majority are low ranking link farms as stated above, so best bet is that if you have the time to submit to such directories then cool go ahead but don't pay for them, your burning cash away doing that for sure!
In a way I mean penalise the value of the articles that are duplicates and the links thereof rather than penalise the website.
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.......and penalise in the sense the Google may devalue the weight in which the...
Yeah there's many factors which contribute to duplicate content and IP address is one of them. Google can't be too hasty to say what is or isn't duplicate content when penalizing a website as if that were the case then competitors would be duplicate contenting there competition to get them in...
They are so beneficial but exceptionally hard to find these days, unless your creating a market yourself for something and your url matches your marketing plan to create a market for something.
Thanks BigCat :)
Yeah it definitely helps contrary to popular belief but yes I agree entirely its not a one stop shop for link building, it would be an all eggs in one basket scenario to solely rely on some sig links.
I tend to go for some good article submissions and some directory...
I was wondering each time you post a link on a forum having a keyword anchor link in your signature, will the link juice increase each time?
or does it not matter too much after the first initial time you post a link?
or will it be classed as spam as its all coming from the same IP address...
Totally agree! it must be literally like looking for a needle in a haystack for such links, my time is better spent writing a cracking article on Ezine etc with a good ol resource box link.
Thanks Jim, I hear on a daily basis of people saying contradicting things on what is and isn't classed as duplicate content, but that article has cleared up a lot of the confusion up for me, nice one son!
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