Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: If your site appears on craigslist.org and the like.....
is it spammy and can you lose validity with search engines or page rank?
I see quite a few sites consistently passing their site name around in community areas of craigslist.org and in different areas. I posted my site in a craigslist community to advertise the chat forum to a specific group. Then I wondered if this may hinder my site's chances of getting rank (its a brand new site as of now). Any validity to this?
Check the contents of robots.txt on craigslist. When I last looked it blocked its forum from spiders. Its listings - some, anyway, are noindex. But there are other listings that are great for SEO value as long as you don't spam. There are lots of people ready to dob you in if you are seen spamming. _________________ --
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It doesn't matter. Craig's links are no longer a benefit for Google ranking. But they may or may not generate some traffic.
You can not control the links going to your site, you can only control who you link out to.
Search for your site by its domain name without any www. or .com or .whatever you use
so put in the search box
mysitedomain
but not "www.mysitedomain.com" - quotes used here to make the link unclickable; you don't need to use the quotes.
and if you have been around any time at all you'll likely find a few dozen (if your site is popular a few 100) sites that are "linking" to you. Well they are not the kind of links you want, they are "scrapes" crap sites that are actually stealing your content so they can display adsense or some other affiliate ads.
The internet is absolutely filled with this crap - it's outright theft, it's being done with software, and there really isn't anything the search engines can do about it. Google could do something about it by banning the people who are using adsense to do this (eliminate the profit incentive and elimintate the sites). The could further penalize the affilate programs by banning them. But they are not about to do this. It's all about money and they are profiting from this crap.
You can not control the links going to your site, you can only control who you link out to.
True, but links on Craigslist are under their control, i.e. spammy links are removed with the whole listing. Linking is about 60% of the SEO effort, which is why on-page SEO on its own works only for the less competitive sites.
This point is usually made when explaining why linking to a banned site is harmful to your ranking. Many people who blindly do reciprocal linking are at risk. It is sad that many novice directory owners insist on a reciprocal link for a free listing.
quest wrote:
Search for your site by its domain name without any www. or .com or .whatever you use
so put in the search box
mysitedomain
Sorry, but I don't know how that is useful. The link: search operator is the one that tells you who links to you, except that to get a fuller view of backlinks in Google you have to view them in the Google Webmaster Tools interface. The link: operator will show you very few of the acknowledged links in Google Search.
Merely looking for the domain will include references to the word that are not a link, e.g. think of a site england.com - typing "england" is not useful. It will also include other gTLDs such as .net, .org etc. _________________ --
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