Does Backlinks for Directories still work?
Published on February 3, 2016
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I have a competitor who I noticed is always in the first page and top half all the time. Even though my content is better than his, I cant outrank him most times. This tells that there are more factors involved than just quality content.
Since backlinks plays an important role, I decided to take a look at his backlinks. To be honest, I was quite shocked when I looked at the results, he had over 200 backlinks( 278 to be exact)
Almost 90% of the links are from articles directories,
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Take a look:
Ok, it seem like this guy is not punished by Google. Because he is almost found in position 1 or 2 on most of the articles even though he just recently published them.
So what do you guys think or using article directories, is it still working? Or am I missing a piece of the puzzle?
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