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Twitter As An Authoritative Backlink

September 12, 2010 by Chris Smith

A while back, I did an experiment trying to prove that while Twitter links are marked as nofollow, that they actually ARE followed. I had a registered, but never-used domain. Google searches for the domain name yielded zero results. I published a simple, static HTML page (no possibility of trackbacks/pinging/RSS/etc.), and tweeted a link from [...]

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Backlinking: High PR vs Relevancy

January 12, 2010 by Chris Smith

In my most recent research, I’ve come to discover that the high PR versus relevancy debate is less important than most think. The typical procedure for creating backlinks (from high PR sites) usually goes as follows: pick a keyword or a couple of keywords, start linking from high PR sites, and then wait for the [...]

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