About 3 months ago I had a re-shuffle on my site where i did a bit of housekeeping. This resulted in my removing lots of links to past clients in an attempt to make the blog more focused on its key topic, SEO.
3 months on most of the backlink reports produced for these sites indicate that my links are still active. If others can confirm that Google is retaining link profiles from sites where links have been removed this could be massive for those SEO’s who buy paid links. Just think about it, you rent a paid link on a new blog post and wait for it to to be indexed, then you let the payment expire and the link is removed… but its still in Googles index as an active sitation.
If this is your thing then give it a whirl and let me know.
Potentially interesting. What tool(s) did you use for the link check?
We rolled out the big guns. majesticseo, link diagnosis, an atriphy checker, a bad neighborhood checker, our own analysis with past link data, info from other sources experiencing similar issues at the same time, comparrison between a stable and unstable site… the list goes on and we’re not done yet.
Thanks for the reply Mark. Will you let us know what happens when you bin a load of links at once that all go to the same target? Providing you’re able to do something like that as a test.
Great news indeed, if proven that is. Thanks for the tip, might give it a try.
you can use NoDoFallow tool to Firefox to check the DoFollows links.
I use SEARCHSTATUS for firefox for this
I also use Quirk Search-status Firefox addon to check the links whether dofollow or not.
Will you let us know what happens when you bin a load of links at once that all go to the same target? Providing you’re able to do something like that as a test.