Online Marketing – How To Hide Your Link Profile
One of the biggest issues you have in online marketing is the information which is exposed to your competition. And one of those areas is your links. After all, youre taught by many, including me, to run a backlink check on your competitors and follow in their footsteps. After all, why make things harder on yourself, just follow their path and it is essentially a shortcut.
But what can you do in order to protect yourself? I discovered this on accident last month, and Ive done it a couple dozen sites and theyre now protected.
Heres how it works:
1) Dont worry about Google. If a site showed 9,000 links in Webmaster Tools, a Google link: command will often show less than 500. Its just what they do. So, basically, your link profile is pretty safe with Google because they hardly show anything.
2) Natural Protection. Search engines will show a maximum of 1,000 results. So, if you have 20,000 links, Google and Yahoo! will show the max of 1,000.
3) Paid links are NOT penalized. If they are discovered, the paid links just arent counted – but your site is NEVER penalized as long as you have a good link profile. Basically, if your PageRank is a 4 or better, youre in great shape.
