Have you noticed your hub before and after backlinks?

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   ishwarya_pposted 12 years ago

   I've done some backlink experiments for my hubs. Results below
   
   hub1 (keyword targeted) - 15 backlinks - 2 weeks - SERP 3rd page to 4th position 
   
   hub2 (keyword targeted) - 9 backlinks - 1 weeks - SERP 2nd page to 7th position. Please do share your experience.

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      Garrett Mickleyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      My hub that receives the most traffic has considerable backlinks to it.  My next 3 most popular hubs have no backlinks to them.
      
      My experience has been that backlinking does nothing but good for your hubs.
      
      However, many hubs don't even need it.

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   lrohnerposted 12 years ago

   I guess backlinking does help -- even the spun and unreadable crap.
   
   Wow. Just wow.

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      camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I did a lot of backlinking on my other account until we were advised not to.
      Now I'm hearing we should be doing it, and then came your mention of the amount of backlinks that Hub on the iPhone5 has (downloaded that plug-in, btw - great, thanks!) and now I'm really confused ...

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         lrohnerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         It seems to be general concensus (for most, anyway) that backlinking is about the only thing that can help in the short-term here. And if this guy's pure crap can rank highly based on backlinks, our stuff should be zooming off the page!
         
         Just make sure you backlink responsibly -- take it slowly. Not sure about the best sites to backlink from, but look to Misha, Darkside, Sunforged, Ryan and Thisisoli for more insight.

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            Mishaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            No offence, but I would leave Ryan out of the list, and include there Mark Knowles, Peter Hoggan, and Eric Graudins instead. I likely missed somebody, those just the first who came to mind.
            
            And thanks for the plug Lisa

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               camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Misha, you were the first one I was going to come to anyway. I know you have a very down-to-earth approach, and that you know a hell of a lot about this kind of thing.

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                  Joy56posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  i dont do technical i only notice hubbers

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                     camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     I think I could put myself in the same category.

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                        Joy56posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        ha ha ha.  I see a likeness between us alright, especially in the maths department....... people like me who only play on hub pages, and write the odd hub, and only poetry at that will probably be a thing of the past the way things are moving on here...........

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                           camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           From what I can glean from a couple of other threads in which Paul Deeds commented, poetry will not be a thing of the past. It's still welcome.

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                              Joy56posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              oh right....... I only logged on today for the first time in ages...... I kinda got the feeling only people wanting to make money, and brilliant hubbers were wanted, as the likes of me are dragging it down......
                              
                              
                              Last night when rugby was on and the team went in to a scrum, i thought they were all talking about me......
                              
                              
                              ,,,.................  paranoid or what.......................

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                  Mishaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Thanks Camlo Trust me, others are worth reading, too.

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                     camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Yes, there are a good few other good ones I know, but I know you better.

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               Joy56posted 12 years agoin reply to this

               er why leave Ryan out.

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                  Mishaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Cause - umm - well - he does not know the topic as good as SF or Peter. Far from it.

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                     Joy56posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Oops i thought he was an authority on everything, he seems to know a lot.....

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                        Mishaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        IDK, he may be an authority in something, but based on what I read by him on the topic, he does not know much about backlinks. Sticking a bookmark or two on shetoldme for a few hundred hubs is not a solid backlinking campaign by any measure.

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                           Garrett Mickleyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           ^^^Fact

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   Peter Hogganposted 12 years ago

   A lot of Google queries are effected by QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) which basically promotes fresh content. It’s why you see hubs ranking well initially before losing ground to more established pages. This will happen long before links have been taken into account.
   
   So if the pages you are talking about are only 1 or 2 weeks old it might be QDF giving you an initial boost, if they are older, then the level of linking you describe indicates that you are targeting extremely non-competitive terms.
   
   Edit: Just noticed you have 0 hubs, so i am a  bit confused.

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      lrohnerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I told you they were crap. Badly, badly spun, unreadable garbage. I wonder if he took them down or the team did, though. In any case, I'm glad they're gone.

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         Peter Hogganposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Ah, that makes sense now.

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