Onlinecasinobluebook.com - Serp Analysis - Part 2 - Backlinks Analysis
Nov/0922
Following on from part 1 of the Online Casino serps analysis we were focusing on the no.1 domain to see why it was no.1.
We covered site history and the hosting and now its time to look at the backlinks of the site.
We were looking at onlinecasinobluebook.com which is/was no.1 when i did my search for online casino in google.com.
Google has placed this site at no.1 by analysing it and using the algorithm they have developed over many years, spent millions of pounds on, have search engineers with phd`s and a large dedicated antispam team.
Thanks to all this technology from google i can be safe in the knowledge that this site hasnt been buying links because they have deemed it of high enough relevance to be at the no.1 position.
Just to reinforce that trust from google they created a page to reassure me.
So when i now go to look at the backlinks i expect to find the site had earned its links and of course all the sites linking to it will be on theme and referencing the site for a specific reason.
Lets have a look shall we?
I wont be using any automated tools because they just give you numbers and other data.
I want to actually see the links, where they are places and other links on the sites.
First i go to yahoo.com because that will give me a bigger picture but after that we will check the snapshot from google.
Yahoo.com
Go to yahoo.com and in the searchbox type linkdomain:www.onlinecasinobluebook.com and press return>
Select the tab on the right that Inlinks.
70100 inlinks showing in yahoo.com.
We will ignore that though because yahoo is not the focus at the moment.
go to google.com and type link:www.onlinecasinobluebook.com
Google just shows a snapshot of the sites linking to the domain.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.onlinecasinobluebook.com%2F
Opps,, things are not looking too good so far.
Google tells me 209 sites linking to.
I will just list the first decent amount because i am led to believe they list the most important at the top.
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link with the anchor text “online casino” in a block of links at the bottom right hand corner.
Webhisting review site so not on theme.
Not a review of the site and there seems to be no reason for it to be there.
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same as above but notice this is a sidewide link and apparently google penalizes them.
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same as above but notice this is a sidewide link and apparently google penalizes them.
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same as above but notice this is a sidewide link and apparently google penalizes them.
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Sacramento Real Estate Statistics: October 2007
Site showing houses or homes that are for sale losing money due to poor mortgage choices, ARMS etc.
sacrealstats.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
Real Estate statistics site so not on theme to online casino at all.
The link is in the footer and there is a whole bunch of links to competetive markets.
Payday loan, Credit Repair,
Just seen it.
Look just below the counter in the footer.
“Paid Links”
And there is a bunch of links below including the casino one.
Apparently footer sitewide links arent counted by google.
Seems to me they are.
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TeamSpeak Download and Reviews - Voice and Video Chat
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Site down
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Penny Foolish: May 2009
So I may have mentioned before that Chase cut my credit lines a few months ago. This pissed me off because my balances were in fact going down and I hadn’t …
pennyfoolish.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
Right hand side.
Helping pay for my lavish blogger lifestyle…
* Text Link Ads
* LinkWorth
When you scroll down there is the real blog links and below in the block there is the paid links.
online casino bluebook
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Penny Foolish: Something I’m rarely accused of, outside of comments
2 Feb 2009 … One thing has struck me, when looking at the comments that spam-posters make. These people want you to think they are real posters and have …
pennyfoolish.blogspot.com/…/something-im-rarely-accused-of-outside.html
As above, paid sitewide.
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Strano Ma Vero
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26 set 2006 … La singolare iniziativa del Luna Park della catena Six Flags in Missouri: chi avrà il coraggio di ingoiare vivo uno di questi insetti, …
www.stranomavero.info/index.php?m=09&y=06
Bottom right hand side.
http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=25854
Higher up on the sidebar under the title links.
casino online bluebook - online casino guide
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Casino Roulette Strategy - Online Casino Gambling Guide
Online casino roulette strategy to gambling online. How to play roulette and find top roulette online casinos.
www.onlinecasinobluebook.com/roulette.html
Internal Link.
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Poker Rules and Tips - 777 - Casino
11 May 2009 … Get the latest information about online games with 777.com, the premier online gaming portal. www.777.com keeps you up to date with casino, …
www.eventdex.com/author/Admin/
Lots of what look to be paid links.
Eventdex seems to be an old site someone has recovered for the links and they post content on it purely for the purpose of selling links.
Link Farm i think google calls that.
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Poker Rules and Tips - Search results
11 Sep 2008 … With the expulsion of American casino players, due to the new American gambling laws prohibiting the processing of gambling related …
www.eventdex.com/?s=bonus
as above
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Web Resources - Skaidon.co.uk
Text Link Advertising - A Great way to spread the word of your website. HTML Optimizer - You can now get rid of all those extra white spacing in your HTML …
www.skaidon.co.uk/web-resources.php
online casino guide
In the lower part of the site and on every page.
http://www.skaidon.co.uk/text-link-advertising.php
Text Link Ads Text Link Price
Entire Site Run $75 /month
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Thoughts on Global Warming: Global Warming Poll
1 comments: daniel diaz said… No matter what others do for our planet and global warming, we can start by protecting it ourselfs. …
http://thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com/2007/07/global-warming-poll.html
This one is really strange.
I dont know why the anchor text is .net even though its over the .com domain.
I hope someone can enlighten me.
Maybe the .com redirected to the .net for a while because he was building links quietly.
But thats a random guess.
<a href=”http://www.greenestsiteever.com/”>Greenest Site Ever</a>
</li><li>
<a href=”http://www.ecofriendlydaily.com/”>Eco Friendly Daily</a>
</li><li>
<span id=”t24266″>
<a href=”http://www.onlinecasinobluebook.com”>onlinecasinobluebook.net</a> - online casino guide to popular online casinos
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</li><li>
<a href=”http://www.paystolivegreen.com/”>Pays to Live Green</a>
</li><li>
<a href=”http://www.promotegreenliving.com”>Promote Green Living</a>
</li><li>
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Penny Foolish: Yay!
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seen this one before.
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Seen this sitewide before
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Brickhost website hosting review
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Seen this sitewide before
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Sturdyhosting website hosting review
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Seen this sitewide before
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» Eric Frost News About MapVisitors: Check this section to read …
The other day I decided to move. It wasn’t a bowel movement, but rather a movement of all my belongings to a new home. To facilitate the move, …
news.mapvisitors.com/author/mapvisit
This is a visitor map that you can use on your site.
The owner is using the pagerank he gets to sell links onthe main site and on the news site which is purely a link fam using the link juice gained from other sites.
http://mapvisitors.com/
http://news.mapvisitors.com/
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Anything that is NEPALI!!: Prashant Tamang ’s new album Dhanyavad
15 Dec 2007 … Honestly, I really didn’t want to update this blog with Prashant Tamang’s new album keeping in mind the promotion, but heck, …
nepalisongsmp3.blogspot.com/…/prashant-tamang-s-new-album-dhanyavad.html
Top right hand corner.
this looks like a paid link directly on the site but just to be sure i downloaded the free blog template they are using.
The blog template creator sells links on the sites he designs and gives away but they seem to be in the footer so i am presuming this is a direct paid link.
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Footer link which is almost hidden.
This could have been a friend that has just throw him a link until i saw the sportsbook.com link at the side of it and i have sen them buying links on the same sites before.
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The Greatest Literary Works: April 2009
When you are playing casino online you will find so many online casino sites on the net. Those who have experienced in playing online casino must now …
greatliteraryworks.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
This is a hand written literature site.
Every so often there is a post about something completely unrealted.
Hard drive recovery, free credit score guides and cheap web hosting guides being amongst them.
When you look at his sidebar it links to a now suspended page My Paid to Blog
And here is the post he paid to be done.
http://greatliteraryworks.blogspot.com/2009/04/play-real-casino-and-get-888-free-bonus.html
Linking to an internal page which is unusal because he normally links to the home page.
http://www.onlinecasinosbluebook.com/review/rushmore-casino.html “rushmore online casino”
Notice the realted posts section below?
None.
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IngoalNetwork.com
Ingoalnetwork arrow Home. The IngoalNetwork is an internet network featuring web service websites (i.e. ZZ.GD), blogs (i.e. Ingoal’s Insight) and content …
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This one is pretty obvious its a paid link by the ” site sponsors”
Links to onlinecasinobluebook.net which has a 301 to the .com
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Online Casino Forum - Threads Tagged with gambling
This is a discussion forum about online casinos, onliner poker and other online gambling related issues.
www.onlinecasinobluebook.com/forum/tags.php?tag…
Internal link.
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Linas M blog » Blog Archive » It’s just a beginning!
We a have a lot of construction works around here in Kaunas right now. Especially in the city center. New city sport arena will come up soon, another huge …
www.henkas.net/2008/09/18/its-just-a-beginning/
This is just a blogger that talks about himself and where he lives.
He must have had a very fine pagernak before the last update because look at all these paid links.
First are the ones where he creats you an entire page and sells you around 3 links on the pages
* Colloidal Silver
* Comcast
* Comcast digital
* Cox services
* Credit Consultation
* Date stamps
* Debit Elimination
* Direct mailing list
* Dish Nerwork
* Dish offers
* Document scanning
* DTV Deals
* Elite Business Solutions
* Exit signs
* Film transfer
* Financial services
* Gold money
* GoNautical Gifts
* Happy-Hour
* Henkas.net e-Shop
* Holiday in Dubai
* House designers
* Internet provider
* Jump Shoes
* Just you
* Kids gifts
* Laptop repair
* Las Vegas Holidays
* LegacyLegal credit
* Lets go 2 Dubai
* Los Angeles Events
* Nautical gifts
* Nice clocks
* OnlineTrading
* Oral chelation therapy
* Party casino
* ProFlowers
* Promotional items
* Qwest Communications
* Real estate design
* Restaurant Equipment
* Satellite
* Satellite internet US
* SatelliteTV Site
* Security cameras
* Sell payments
* Settlement capital
* Shoes for You!
* ShoesOnline
* Spare parts
* SUBSTANDARD GIFTS
* TeakALook
* The Exit Store
* The May Firm
* Time Warner Digital
* Time Warner Digital Service
* Total DUI
* Trading Concepts
* TV Sattelite fun
* USA Alarm
* USA Direct TV
* Valentine’s Day
* Verizon deals
* Video conversion
* Video Film Experts
* Voice-over
* Wine
and next is just direct sitewide links
Advertisement
* 8mm film conversion
* Aquarium Ornaments
* Birth Announcements
* cd dvd replication
* Colloidal Silver
* Criminal defense lawyer
* Day Trading
* Direct TV Deal
* Franchise Consulting
* FrontPage Web Templates
* Hostingo firmos
* Hostingo palyginimas
* mesothelioma attorney
* mortgage list brokers
* Online Casino
* online casino bluebook
* Online Casino Lobby
* Point of Sale POS Software
* PowerPoint Templates
* Rocket Dog Shoes
* Student Loans
* Teacher Gift
* US Business Grants
* Video production
* Voice Talent
* Web Hosting Reviews
* Who sells it? .com
* wines of loire valley
* Wood Book Cases Baltimore
and of course in there we see online casino bluebook.
That has to be one of the most spammiest link farms i have ever seen.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll
The ‘Blog of the Week’ is back and for the week of Oct 18th to Oct 24th 2009, the blog of choice is ‘Charlies Hash’. This blog from, well Charlie, …
nlblogroll.blogspot.com/
Right hand side seperate from any of the other links he puts on his site is
casino online bluebook - online casino guide
He has hundreds of outgoing links to related sites in categorys and the only one he has to casino he pushes to the far right corner of the sidebar.
Need i go on?
Out of all the links i have checked so far there seems to be a big big pattern.
This person hasnt earned one of them.
None of these links are an impartial vote for his site.
The way gooogle treats links on a basic level is that the more sites that link to yours the more votes you have.
Its a pure popularity contest in google and this is where the google algorithm is flawed.
Google believe that if you have the best content you will get the most links and this will say you deserve to be on top.
Many statements from matt cutts and google say they are cracking down on paid links and pay per post but it seems they werent telling us the whole truth.
You see evidence above that if you want a no.1 site you need to have an old domain with some content and buy links from wherever you can get varying the anchor text.
Can any of you help me find any sites he hasnt paid to be on?
1:22 pm on November 4th, 2009
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
1:26 pm on November 4th, 2009
Thanks Chris.
I intend to share a lot more because the search engines are turning into a bit of a joke now.
1:39 pm on November 4th, 2009
I very amusing read, but nothing new here. You won’t find any ‘earned’ link to this site, simply because there are none. Probably ALL his backlinks are bought in some way or another and if I start digging through my files I might even be able to tell you how much he paid for them.
1:43 pm on November 4th, 2009
Btw, what your research does ‘prove’ is that all this talk about sitewides, footer links and blogroll links being discounted or ignored is b*llsh*t.
2:04 pm on November 4th, 2009
The main question though must be.
why is he ranking when the rest of us get spanked for buying links and shitty link farms?
2:27 pm on November 4th, 2009
Earl, I wonder what the search engines are going to say to this analysis - it’s just making a fool of their multimillion pound technologies, especially Google
Besides, it really sucks that they say one thing and do another. Did they not say “do no evil”? They murderously “slap” the small guy then turn the blind eye to the big guy. It will be interesting to see if this site does not use AdWords, if it does (which I think is yes), what is their average monthly spend?
Earl, I think this will really open a huge DRUM of worms!
Btw, update on http://www.2-software.net/TeamSpeak-226.html the site is up now - you will notice http://www.onlinecasinobluebook.com/ with the anchor link as “Casino Gambling”.
2:30 pm on November 4th, 2009
Giggle algo is not clever enough to detect this, so they rely on spam reports. My guess would be that nobody reported him. If you put your findings in a spam report, in theory he should be penalized by next week.
2:43 pm on November 4th, 2009
Bertje, I hate reporting people and I am against it. Why? Simple, what about those who are quite clever to hide their own paid links, who as soon as the guy above them is removed they occupy that some spot with the same evil? That is some injustice. It should be the same rule for everyone. If he paid for his links to get their and all the people in the next 10 spots are doing the same, why should he be singled out? And if the top 10 paid for links what about the next 100, don’t they? The whole set of rules by Google has no justice.
2:48 pm on November 4th, 2009
@Braveheart. I was answering Earls question. I have no intention of reporting anyone.
2:58 pm on November 4th, 2009
I know, Bertje, I wasn’t talking about you at all, not by inch. I was referring to people who are frustrated at their slow progress at SEO do. I am sure many of those who report others do buy links in one form or the other.
Bertje, keep up your comments, I am enjoying reading them as much as you do writing them
3:14 pm on November 4th, 2009
I have been checking the PR of the pages where these links are being hosted and some of them don’t even have any rated PR for example: http://pennyfoolish.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html and also http://sacrealstats.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html - NO PR. These two examples are difficult to qualify. Why? If the 2007 post with no page rank is counted worthy by Google due to age, the 2009) with no page rank has no age to qualify it to be worthy. I wonder what the PhD engineers are fumbling at in the alg - the homepage?
3:46 pm on November 4th, 2009
I would imagine every competitor is putting in spam reports on him daily.
But what will replace it?
Time to start looking at 888.com
4:03 pm on November 4th, 2009
maybe its time I revise my opinion of sidewide links…
anyway, some of the people selling links are doing it better than others. use this posting to get some cloaking ideas. if you can see the paid link, it’s not very well done
5:26 pm on November 4th, 2009
Interesting comments guys and great post Earl.
@ wahd - what do you mean by link cloaking? presuming the link gets crawled by GoogleBot but is not visible on manual inspection, is that right?
8:31 pm on November 4th, 2009
@si in this case i was more interested in links that are visible but nobody notices them. could be in a blogroll, could be in the tag section or as in the case I was referring to, in the meta section.
10:22 pm on November 4th, 2009
@Earl Grey That was why I mentioned in my previous post that it would be interesting if he (or they) hold an AdWords account, and to see what they spend on the PPC campaign per month. I know what I mean about that, anyone who has a huge PPC account knows what I am saying - indirectly
12:48 pm on November 5th, 2009
Thanks for clearing that up wahd - good point - no point in flagging your paid links by sticking them all in the sponsors list.
Earl - RE the next analysis on 888.com I saw them advertising for a ‘clean’ seo recently . . . not sure if that tells you anything . . . but looking at that link profile they’re gonna have their work cut out
5:07 pm on November 5th, 2009
Same guy doing this did the same thing about 1year ago with the .com. He also has bunch of sites in the “web hosting” affiliate market that since died off.
Anyways great post. Nice +2 links to many of the sites that are linking to him.
You may want to rel-nofollow those
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11:54 pm on December 22nd, 2009
Great reading Earl and lots of interesting comments.
But this typifies my view of SEO - it doesn’t make sense! You follow the rules - original content, genuine links and ya get no where. Pay for some links - use the likes of Link Juicer and things start to happen.
I’m currently working on getting a company up in the rankings for a certain term. They are hovering around page 3. I know all the sites above and watch what they are doing. But then a no-mark site with no keywords in the url, little content and no domain age to speak of jumps in at position 13 grrrrrr! I’m hoping its come in high as its just been indexed.
All the sites above mine are using paid links and doggy blog entries to get their places. So stuff it! It’s BH all the way from now on (and I dont mean Benson and Hedges!!)
8:37 pm on December 23rd, 2009
Dude i have been doing seo for a long time and i am considered one of the most experienced.
I still dont get it.
That is the reason progrrammers and people with logical thinking dont get seo because there is no logic to it.
Google say “dont buy links” and “dont do dodgy linking” so you keep it clean and all the sites above you use the techniques.
Main reason i dont listen to any of the fags and just do what i want.