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7 Things You Didn‘t know
about Links and Redirects

2.
Nice to be here again

3.
About Christoph C. Cemper
@cemper

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Google confirmed
Links are important
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Links are
important……
Of course 

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Links are important!

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Links still No#1 Ranking Factor
March 2016

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YOU CAN NOT
NOT SEE IT.

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Understanding
Not All Links Are Equal
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Still #1

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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 LINKING
PAGES …

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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 LINKING
TRUST…

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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”

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SEO Test from 2016 confirms,
Outgoing Links
help rankings
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Experiment Rebootonline 2016
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WITH outgoing links: rank #1-5

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WITHOUT outgoing links: #6-10

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APRIL’16 Google penalizes
unnatural outgoing links

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for outbound links

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Scraper Links
are not ignored „automatically“
3

32.
BARTOSZ
GORALEWICZ

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Who has worked with
Disavow Files?

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Disavow-File Upload not enough
Links must be crawled
4

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Understanding

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A SORT OF Computer

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„THE DISAVOW PROBLEM“

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DISAVOW EFFECT …
TAKES AGES

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BECAUSE…

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UP TO 9 MONTHS…

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3 DAYS using
Link Detox Boost

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Old Links
help you, if you keep them
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“Ranking without Links” ~2014

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Monitor your Backlinks

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Website Relaunch Issues
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Negative SEO

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Redirects pass
Link Penalties
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Penalty via Redirect –
“How it works”

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HOME24 2.0

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302 Redirects
work different in Google?
7

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302 should
behave like
301……

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307 Redirects
„New“. Work different?
7

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Mhhh. We will test this.

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Ohhh…
that was it?

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Page Rank is DEAD
Don‘t measure Links via PR
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What to use instead.

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LRT Power*Trust

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How to read Power*Trust

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Link Detox Risk®

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A 99% DROP IN TRAFFIC
HURTS

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Link Detox Risk®

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Link Detox Risk® AI

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@linkdetox @cemper @lnkresearchtool
Link Detox Risk AI

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for outbound links

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NoFollow Links
Can also cause a penalty.
9

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Links, mentioned as Penalty
Reason by Google

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Subdomain Penalty
can hit main domain
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Links
from a REL-Canonical page
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Count?
Not count?
How much?

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Two REL-Canonicals
from one page?
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Who ranks
here?

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Mhhh. We will test this.

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LRT Link Redirect Trace Add-on

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THE BEST LINKS

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All Data, Videos, eBooks …

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and …
Link Detox for Outbound Links

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ASK ME ANYTHING
@cemper