- so in general, it should not matter how many links are in the article, as long they're relevant and not too spammy looking?
That's my opinion for internal links.
For external links, relevance and the quality of the destination are important.
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- so in general, it should not matter how many links are in the article, as long they're relevant and not too spammy looking?
That's my opinion for internal links.
For external links, relevance and the quality of the destination are important.
I agree with Asif. I would not do this because parameters become a briarpatch without creating them.
You should be able to use Google Analytics or other analytics to see where your traffic is coming from.
Improve the article. Keep it up-to-date.
Be on the look-out for additional information that will enable improvement. Read topic-area blogs and news about your product lines. Search periodically to stay up-to-date.
Attend professional meetings and obtain additional training in the general topic areas of your website.
Most people look for SEO information to improve their website, but the real gold is in the industries and topic areas of your products or the subjects that you write about.
Place them in menu headings that are relevant and useful for the visitors.
You don't want to have customers thinking... Why did they put this crap in here. As soon as they start seeing "contamination" in your menu their shopping in that category will end.
What do you think of the Amazon SERPs where they are showing crap in their SERPs that does not match or even relate to the querry? It has a really bad odor to me.
I'm trying to work out what to do if this is a spammy technique and also affecting our trust scores etc and what we should do about it.
I think that it is a very spammy technique.
First items of work.
submit disavows to Google
remove this trash from its servers
find out who did this. If a current staff member, I would consider their current worth to the company. If it is low I would be discharging them. If it is high, then I would educate them. If a SEO service provider did this I would cancel any current contracts and not do business with them again.