Comments for Doubletime Talk http://www.doubletimemarketing.com/talk News about branding, search engine optimization and online marketing to help you get noticed. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Can using your competitor’s name take traffic from their site? by Billy http://www.doubletimemarketing.com/talk/2009/09/can-using-your-competitors-name-take-traffic-from-their-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Billy Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:37:44 +0000 http://doubletimemarketing.com/talk/?p=12#comment-2 I found this comment at http://www.seopedia.org/internet-marketing-and-seo/14-search-marketing-questions-answered/: <br /><br /> Q: In your experience will linking to my competitors actually help me? if so how big is the effect?<br /> <br /> A:[There] have always been long debates about outbound links helping a website with it’s rank. IMHO highly relevant outbound links CAN help. How big is the effect? Rather small. In your situation (the outbound landing pages being the competition) I wouldn’t recommend this. Although it might help you in a small manner, it will help them a lot more. So practically you will raise their rank for free. I found this comment at http://www.seopedia.org/internet-marketing-and-seo/14-search-marketing-questions-answered/:

Q: In your experience will linking to my competitors actually help me? if so how big is the effect?

A:[There] have always been long debates about outbound links helping a website with it’s rank. IMHO highly relevant outbound links CAN help. How big is the effect? Rather small. In your situation (the outbound landing pages being the competition) I wouldn’t recommend this. Although it might help you in a small manner, it will help them a lot more. So practically you will raise their rank for free.

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