11 things you didn't know about links & redirects

11 More Things You Didn‘t Know

Links & Redirects

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About Christoph C. Cemper

Founder & CEO of

SEO & Marketing since 2003

@cemper

Orange Jacket and SEO

The web isContent and

Links

1

YOU CAN NOT

NOT SEE IT.Or “switch off”.

Links still No#1 Ranking Factor

March 2016

Andrey Lipattsev – Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google’s March 2016

Not All Redirects are equal

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• http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/double-manual-google-penalty-success-302-redirects-harmful/

August 1, 2014 

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC

https://twitter.com/randfish/status/758001482935341056

We want to push rankings with Links und Redirects and not „Pass Page Rank“

That’s been the case forever

http://lrt.li/seotests

SEO Tested statements

Get them all here…

Tested

Different anchor text passing power via

links from pages powered by redirects

3Tested

Anchor text passing power of links powered by Redirects

•Links from pages powered by ONLY a 301 , 302 and 307•Start 3.2.2016•Measure „anchor text passing power“ of outgoing links•Target page on authority domain

301 power lost WAY too soonBlue = 301 powered source pageMarch21-April 18 no rankings passedOrange curve = the target domain!

Tested

302 powered ranking pretty consistentlyBlue = 302 powered source pageOrange = the target page

Tested

307 powered ranking……oh my!Blue = 307 powered source pageOrange = the target page

Tested

So how much Anchor Text Pushing Power

should your Redirects have?

Can you spot my favorite?

Tested

Summary „Anchor Text Passing“ from redirect powered pages•Only 302 passes pretty consistently

•Site migrations via 301 might „die slowly“

Tested

Summary „Anchor Text Passing“from redirect powered pages•Only 302 „survived“ switch of target domain from HTTP => HTTPS in July

•Only 302 „survived“ switch of target page to a new product page (via 301) in August!

Tested

Summary „Anchor Text Passing“from redirect powered pages•Looks like links „stop working“ if powered by 301 + 307

•Don‘t believe it. Test it yourself

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Tested

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Tested

Different anchor text passing power via links to redirects out

4Tested

„Anchor Text Passing“ via outbound link redirects•Test 301 , 302 und 307 Links •Start 22.6.•3 target top authority domains•2 outbound links via redirects 301/302/307

Tested

MY TEST PAGEAnchor 1Anchor 2 Anchor 3

Anchor 4Anchor 5Anchor 6

MY TEST PAGEAnchor 1Anchor 2 Anchor 3

Anchor 4Anchor 5Anchor 6

DOMAIN 1

301

301

DOMAIN 2

307

307

302

302

DOMAIN 3

„Anchor Text Passing“ via 301 Redirect• Link#1 / Anchor#1 • ON Jun 23 (Ranking #1)-27 (4 days!)• OFF (NOT ranking at all) Jun 28• ON/OFF Jul 12-Jul15• ON/OFF Jul 22-Jul 26• ON/OFF Aug 2-Aug 13

• Link#2 / Anchor#2 – only OFF

• „Only first link counts“-idea

Tested

301 passing partial and fluctuates• Yellow on #1 = it ranks, otherwise NOT

ranking

Tested

„Anchor Text Passing“ via 302 Redirect• Link#1 / Anchor#1 • ON Jun 22 (Ranking #1, same day!)• OFF not yet, Aug 30 still #1

• Link#2 / Anchor#2• ON Jun 23 (Ranking #1, next Day)• OFF not yet, Aug 13 still #1

• WOW.

Tested

302 kicks in fast and stable• Blue = the linking source page• Orange = the linking target page

Tested

Ahhh – that‘s the way I Iike it!Thumbs Up to 302!

Tested

„Anchor Text Passing“ via 307 Redirects•Link#1 / Anchor#1 •ON Aug 7 (Ranking #1, 6,5 weeks delay)•Until Aug 13•OFF Aug 17 ( “Rel-Canonicaled to a 301” )•Link#2 / Anchor#2•OFF

Tested

307 takes LOOOONG 1st link ONLY• Blue = the linking source page• Purple on #1 = target page ranks,

otherwise NOT

Tested

Summary „Anchor Text Passing“ via 301, 302, 307

ONLY the 302 is fast and helpful

Tested

Thoughts on Redirects

What does this all mean?

Google tells us „Don‘t Worry“?

•Google says: all redirects PASS PAGE RANK

•Google does NOT say: all redirects are equal!

So it DOES MATTERWhich Redirect you Use!

Hell yeah. It aways has mattered.

BTW regardingPage Rank

Can you guess the next slide?

Page Rank is DEADDon‘t measure Links via

PR

5

What to use instead.

LRT Power*TrustA lot more than a

PageRank replacement!

How to read Power*Trust

Links have many criteria

Not All Links Are Equal

6

NOT ALL LINKS

ARE EQUAL!

LinkResearchTools (LRT)

measures up to 97 criteria per link so

you can

ASK FOR

LINKING PAGES …

ASK FOR

LINKING DOMAINS…

ASK FOR

LINKS PER MONTH

(Link Velocity Trends)

ASK FOR

TYPE OF LINK(Follow, NoFollow, Redirects, Javascript,

Frames, …)

ASK FOR

LINK POWER

ASK FOR

LINK TRUST

ASK FOR

LINK RISK(Link Detox Risk)

ASK FOR

LINK KEYWORD

(commercial or branded anchor texts)

AND MANY MORE ASPECTS

… for EACH LINK.

AND DIFFERENT WEIGHTS

… for EACH INDUSTRYCOUNTRY

LANGUAGEKEYWORD

EXAMPLE: “1000 backlinks”

A single domain linking out from 1.000 sub-pages

IS NOT LIKE1.000 domains linking to you

from a single page

Therefore: “Site-Wide Filter”

BUT How many linking PAGES and how many linking DOMAINS?

and FOLLOW vs. NOFOLLOW? and POWER? TRUST? and LINK VELOCITY? BRAND VS. MONEY?

….

307 Redirectsare NOT a „LIE“

7

It’s only a Chrome bug

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/E4PqAhRJB2V

He means this

Why does John Muller „forget“ server side 307?

Ignoring real server 307

303 + RELCAN Loop?Why not says LinkedIn

8

Google: Show BOTH or NONE?

303

Links and Redirectsfrom a REL-Canonicaled Page

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Do they work?

PAGE A Rel-canonical

PAGE

ME

Count?Not count?How much?

PAGE

THEM

Counts?

Link

sLink

s

Link

s

Or TWO REL-Canonicals

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Double? Half? Not?

PAGE A PAGE BRel-canonicalRel-canonical

PAGE

THEM

PAGE

ME

Counts?Who ranks here?

Link

sLink

s

Link

s

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Tested

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No Problem with PDF Dupe Content

of PDFs

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For Google that is.

No Problem for Google

And The Links?

The Links

The Rankings

The BEST LINKS Are the ones your competitor cannot get

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