Are top lists worth backlinking too?

[NatalieK]

Ok, so i´ve checked our stats & seems some top sites only send like 2 or 3 clicks a week, is this worth backlinking to them?

We originally set up a load of backlinks thinking of the DA, more backlinks, higher DA, but seems some of these have lower DA than our blog anyway & when you realise they only send a few hits a week...

is it worth it?

This is serious question for the SEO guys. Just wanting to know whether to email the top lists & dump them or to leave the outgoing link to lower DA sites on our blog.

BTW; this isn´t all top lists, just a handful of them!

[mrmister]

Your obsessed with DA. The sooner you stop the more success you will have

But what the hell do I know? Not a serious SEO guy

[Huggles]

Originally Posted by mrmister

Your obsessed with DA. The sooner you stop the more success you will have

But what the hell do I know? Not a serious SEO guy

My experience with SEO has woken me up to the idea that everything needs to be a hyper focused, very-specific, long-keyword term.

But I'm Gen X... my brain thinks "pizza near me" and "big tits" and "hot wet pussy"

But what if getting clicks is "best pepperoni pizza with lots of cheese and rich sauce vancouver" or "big tits with small pink nipples and a blonde woman by a pool jerking off a cock" or "close up view of a pink pussy with a hint of wetness leaking out of swollen, hot pink lips"

Am I a schizo or what?!?!

[fris]

if your site is good, the top sites will link you

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by mrmister

Your obsessed with DA. The sooner you stop the more success you will have

But what the hell do I know? Not a serious SEO guy

lol, I don´t think mentioning DA on a few recent threads, makes for obsession...

We´ve heard many times over the past year DA mentioned by others, saying how it makes a big difference.

Anyway, getting back to the thread, it´s not the DA of the top sites i´m asking about, I´m asking anyone who knows SEO & good search management, is it worth keeping these top sites that only send a few hits a week & are much lower than our site on our backlinks side bar...

So there´s 2 reasons to be deleting & notifying the site owners, the lack of hits & their sites haven´t had any work done or increased DA since we did the links a year back...

to me, if you don´t work hard at a project, a site, our business, no point in doing business with them.

TBH, i´ve probably answered the situation myself, and to drop them. I would like to hear from someone that knows about this sort of thing first though. I wouldn´t want to drop the sites & it effect my site in a bad way, obviously

Originally Posted by fris

if your site is good, the top sites will link you

we´ve already been links, i´m wondering about dropping some...

i have a 10 top sites all owned by the same person & no work on their site has been updated for over a year. We only get a hit or 2 a week from them & their ranking hasn´t increased like others & our own site has, obviously due others & us working on our sites

Would you drop sites with lazy owners that are giving nothing back?

[TurboB]

DA is a third-party metric from outdated company MOZ and has nothing to do with Google's algo (secret of course). Also, DA can easily be faked.

Top sites can't send you big traffic unless you have a very attractive big banner. Guys watching porn, not searching for sidebar links. Header links can bring some traffic, but in most cases, it is site-wide - millions of links = spam.

As for backlinks for SEO - you need to check backlinks manually - with experience - it is worth it. Also, traffic to the linking sites does not bring any rankings to you site by itself, but the link from a zero traffic site = that site can have a hit of Google penalty and link juice is in question from it.

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by Huggles

My experience with SEO has woken me up to the idea that everything needs to be a hyper focused, very-specific, long-keyword term.

But I'm Gen X... my brain thinks "pizza near me" and "big tits" and "hot wet pussy"

But what if getting clicks is "best pepperoni pizza with lots of cheese and rich sauce vancouver" or "big tits with small pink nipples and a blonde woman by a pool jerking off a cock" or "close up view of a pink pussy with a hint of wetness leaking out of swollen, hot pink lips"

Am I a schizo or what?!?!

We´ve increased our seo & keywords for my escorting side of my business. My page on my blog for meeting comes up top for the local escort search & clients around this area looking for a good time

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by TurboB

DA is a third-party metric from outdated company MOZ and has nothing to do with Google's algo (secret of course). Also, DA can easily be faked.

Top sites can't send you big traffic unless you have a very attractive big banner. Guys watching porn, not searching for sidebar links. Header links can bring some traffic, but in most cases, it is site-wide - millions of links = spam.

As for backlinks for SEO - you need to check backlinks manually - with experience - it is worth it. Also, traffic to the linking sites does not bring any rankings to you site by itself, but the link from a zero traffic site = that site can have a hit of Google penalty and link juice is in question from it.

ok, thank you Turbo! Lots of relevant information & good advice here...

I notice you mention lots of links can be seen as spam. Maybe why our sitelock was showing malware & spam free, as obviously we´re not updating spam, just solid individually wrote blog posts. However, the huge amount of backlinks on the side bar could be the issue!

Thank you

[TurboB]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

ok, thank you Turbo! Lots of relevant information & good advice here...

I notice you mention lots of links can be seen as spam. Maybe why our sitelock was showing malware & spam free, as obviously we´re not updating spam, just solid individually wrote blog posts. However, the huge amount of backlinks on the side bar could be the issue!

Thank you

It is hard to say how Google sees site-wide links in the adult niche, but overall such links are considered as bad for mainstream niche SEO.
Overall, Google considers many links from a single domain as one.

[mrmister]

I said it the other day in another thread of yours that sidebar links or trades could be considered spam. How many big sites with rankings on Google have a lot of outgoing links?

Also I notice that you have a ton of varying anchor texts in your backlinks which could flag up some issues with Google

The sites sending you low amount of hits. Put them in semrush. If they get a lot of search engine traffic then I'd say they are worth keeping. If not then probably not

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by TurboB

It is hard to say how Google sees site-wide links in the adult niche, but overall such links are considered as bad for mainstream niche SEO.
Overall, Google considers many links from a single domain as one.

ok, thanks. I´ll be taking a good look through and getting rid of any backlinks

Originally Posted by mrmister

I said it the other day in another thread of yours that sidebar links or trades could be considered spam. How many big sites with rankings on Google have a lot of outgoing links?

Also I notice that you have a ton of varying anchor texts in your backlinks which could flag up some issues with Google

The sites sending you low amount of hits. Put them in semrush. If they get a lot of search engine traffic then I'd say they are worth keeping. If not then probably not

good idea checking their search engine traffic, thanks

[fris]

im listed on porndude, it sends good numbers

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by fris

im listed on porndude, it sends good numbers

yeah, i see a few top lists do...

we´ve come to a big predicament, the 10 top list sites we were asking about on this thread, 3 of them are sending good traffic, 7 are sending BS nada. & all are low traffic into their sites with low DA of 27.

are the 3 sites sending good traffic over ride the 7 that don´t, we´re linking to all 10 obviously.

Do we dump them or leave them lol

[1X1X1]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

yeah, i see a few top lists do...

we´ve come to a big predicament, the 10 top list sites we were asking about on this thread, 3 of them are sending good traffic, 7 are sending BS nada. & all are low traffic into their sites with low DA of 27.

are the 3 sites sending good traffic over ride the 7 that don´t, we´re linking to all 10 obviously.

Do we dump them or leave them lol

dump the ones you think are providing no value and keep the other ones

[TheLegacy]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

yeah, i see a few top lists do...

we´ve come to a big predicament, the 10 top list sites we were asking about on this thread, 3 of them are sending good traffic, 7 are sending BS nada. & all are low traffic into their sites with low DA of 27.

are the 3 sites sending good traffic over ride the 7 that don´t, we´re linking to all 10 obviously.

Do we dump them or leave them lol

I have an idea for you if you want to chat on skype - pretty sure it will be helpful to this situation. I'm online all tomorrow

[mopek1]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

3 of them are sending good traffic,

Which ones?

[CurrentlySober]

i wood lik2 link 2 'Bottom Lists'...

Well, lists about what comes out of your bottom...

Good Times

[fris]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

yeah, i see a few top lists do...

we´ve come to a big predicament, the 10 top list sites we were asking about on this thread, 3 of them are sending good traffic, 7 are sending BS nada. & all are low traffic into their sites with low DA of 27.

are the 3 sites sending good traffic over ride the 7 that don´t, we´re linking to all 10 obviously.

Do we dump them or leave them lol

there is only maybe 3-5 of them that its worth being on.

[mrmister]

Go to Google

Type in " best porn sites "

All the sites on first page are worth being on

Simple

[mrmister]

Originally Posted by fris

there is only maybe 3-5 of them that its worth being on.

How much traffic are you sending them? You have a ton of outgoing links. Unless your hitting 10k-20k daily you aren't sending them much either

Sorry for being blunt :D

[femdomdestiny]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

lol, I don´t think mentioning DA on a few recent threads, makes for obsession...

We´ve heard many times over the past year DA mentioned by others, saying how it makes a big difference.

Anyway, getting back to the thread, it´s not the DA of the top sites i´m asking about, I´m asking anyone who knows SEO & good search management, is it worth keeping these top sites that only send a few hits a week & are much lower than our site on our backlinks side bar...

So there´s 2 reasons to be deleting & notifying the site owners, the lack of hits & their sites haven´t had any work done or increased DA since we did the links a year back...

to me, if you don´t work hard at a project, a site, our business, no point in doing business with them.

TBH, i´ve probably answered the situation myself, and to drop them. I would like to hear from someone that knows about this sort of thing first though. I wouldn´t want to drop the sites & it effect my site in a bad way, obviously



we´ve already been links, i´m wondering about dropping some...

i have a 10 top sites all owned by the same person & no work on their site has been updated for over a year. We only get a hit or 2 a week from them & their ranking hasn´t increased like others & our own site has, obviously due others & us working on our sites

Would you drop sites with lazy owners who are giving nothing back?

to me, this sounds like completely insane logic. Dropping the site because someone is not working on site? DA in 2023? Losing links is wrong, I've just discovered a shitload of those "no-traffic" sites dropping links to one of my sites and I am almost 100% sure it affected my rankings significantly.

Personally, I never expect traffic from sites. Usually, links will get only a few clicks, but their value is relevancy and authority passing on to your site. So if the link to your site is placed in some relevant article in the same or similar niche on-site that is not penalized (but that's something you will know before getting a link there), I don't see a reason for stopping trade.

Eventually, they will remove your links too and that will affect your SEO efforts.

[brassmonkey]

get your hair puffy and head back to 2005!

[emmasexytime]

Originally Posted by mrmister

Go to Google

Type in " best porn sites "

All the sites on first page are worth being on

Simple

lucky

Go here, https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker
Check each site you are getting links from. See where they get links from. If the site has a good amount of links from good adult sites (lots of at least dr 40 to 50 or more), keep the links. If they have garbage to inflate DR/DA then ask to remove trades.

Use DR instead of DA. But they don't mean much either way. Just ahrefs is best

[Focus]

Originally Posted by emmasexytime

lucky

Go here, https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker
Check each site you are getting links from. See where they get links from. If the site has a good amount of links from good adult sites (lots of at least dr 40 to 50 or more), keep the links. If they have garbage to inflate DR/DA then ask to remove trades.

Use DR instead of DA. But they don't mean much either way. Just ahrefs is best

What she said 💯

[$5 submissions]

Your best bet are press release links in 2023 and beyond

The ROE and ROI blow other methods away

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

to me, this sounds like completely insane logic. Dropping the site because someone is not working on site? DA in 2023? Losing links is wrong, I've just discovered a shitload of those "no-traffic" sites dropping links to one of my sites and I am almost 100% sure it affected my rankings significantly.

Personally, I never expect traffic from sites. Usually, links will get only a few clicks, but their value is relevancy and authority passing on to your site. So if the link to your site is placed in some relevant article in the same or similar niche on-site that is not penalized (but that's something you will know before getting a link there), I don't see a reason for stopping trade.

Eventually, they will remove your links too and that will affect your SEO efforts.

Words to the wise Gary.

[mrmister]

If you want traffic buy a banner on a tube site

If you want a link for SEO don't expect many clicks

It's rare to find both and the ones that provide both aren't free or tradeable

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by mrmister

If you want traffic buy a banner on a tube site

If you want a link for SEO don't expect many clicks

It's rare to find both and the ones that provide both aren't free or tradeable

[GhostVision]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

Ok, so i´ve checked our stats & seems some top sites only send like 2 or 3 clicks a week, is this worth backlinking to them?

We originally set up a load of backlinks thinking of the DA, more backlinks, higher DA, but seems some of these have lower DA than our blog anyway & when you realise they only send a few hits a week...

is it worth it?

This is serious question for the SEO guys. Just wanting to know whether to email the top lists & dump them or to leave the outgoing link to lower DA sites on our blog.

BTW; this isn´t all top lists, just a handful of them!

Google does not consider and essentially does not recognize Domain Authority (DA) and Page Authority (PA) as valuable metrics. . You can find online services that, for just $50, can boost any domain's DA to over 50 in a month. This shows how easily these metrics can be manipulated.

In reality, these numbers, DA and PA, mean nothing. Instead, focus on the quality of a site's backlinks, its age, and the number of visitors. These are the factors that truly matter.

[trevesty]

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

to me, this sounds like completely insane logic. Dropping the site because someone is not working on site? DA in 2023? Losing links is wrong, I've just discovered a shitload of those "no-traffic" sites dropping links to one of my sites and I am almost 100% sure it affected my rankings significantly.

Personally, I never expect traffic from sites. Usually, links will get only a few clicks, but their value is relevancy and authority passing on to your site. So if the link to your site is placed in some relevant article in the same or similar niche on-site that is not penalized (but that's something you will know before getting a link there), I don't see a reason for stopping trade.

Eventually, they will remove your links too and that will affect your SEO efforts.

[MatureKing]

MINE worth! youmydaddy.com