Comments on: Natural Poker Links

By: pomp

pomp — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:39:26 +0000

Great read Randy and although some of it was above my head alot wasnt and really made sense.

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:03:13 +0000

There’s a big difference between linking to and from 2 or 3 sites you own and linking to and from 50 sites that you own. It’s a matter of moderation and being reasonable. Some large companies go hog wild with their crosslinking and get away with it, like the IAC network of sites. (Check out the footer of Hotels.com, for example.)

Glad you found the post helpful, Earl!

By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:18:30 +0000

Thanks for this Randy Ray . It has clarified a lot of “misconceptions” to me. One being that I had read somewhere that it was not a good thing to link to your own sites because google would penalize you for it…..guess it gets back to what you say though about being paranoid with google.

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:56:09 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Someone else might redefine those phrases for themselves, but since there aren’t a lot of people writing about poker SEO specifically, I thought I’d go ahead and take the initiative and define “natural links”, “unnatural links”, and “artificial links”. At least as they relate to poker link building anyway. I know a lot of poker webmasters worry a LOT about getting penalized, so they’re really careful about who they link to and who they get links from, and a lot of times their worries are unfounded. (Worrying about linking to a site about pool halls is just silly, but everyone’s so paranoid about getting dinged with a Google penalty…)

By: Kendall

Kendall — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:20:39 +0000

Awesome post Randy.

I really like the discussion (and examples) of natural vs un-natural link profiles…It is a tough topic to tackle with a lot of different ideas on what is and isn’t natural but your examples of both made sense and I will definitely keep them in mind.

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:10:19 +0000

You’re damn right we can!

Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad you’re enjoying the posts.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:56:50 +0000

Hey Randy

Really enjoying the new posts… this one was a great example of a common sense approach beating the ‘game the system’ that we see discussed so often. While I still have a lot to learn in this area your philosophy has definitely shaped my efforts and will continue to do.

One thing though man, us 1970 vintage models (if I recall correctly) may be ‘old men’ in theory but hey, we can still out party the college kids of today right??

Cheers, Mark