Q&A From Yesterdays Video + Extra

Emails responses galore...let's cover some of them.

Without further ado...

We need to talk about your hick pronunciation of "ahrefs"

Let the people decide.

Is it Aw-Ref (what a shitty call, ref c'mon) or hard A-Ref (anchor reference)?

I know I say it both, my brain is conflicted.

Edit: Late contender... H-Refz? WTF? How?

Edit 2: A-H-refs?

Help a brother out, reply with your convictions

GSA still works?

100% in how you use it.

Clearly doesn't work very well if you use it like the site in the video.

Works really well as the final tier on our Link Boost Only packages but we're filtering it through 4 levels of ever increasing authority.

I know guys doing well with it direct to site in the year 2024 but I'll never divulge their secrets.

Wanted to say thanks for these great quick Loom videos. Do you think the example in this video, Times Herald Online, would benefit from submitting a disavow for those specific urls with the over optimised anchors then building new links with better anchors? Interested if you have ever done that one to see if it helps at a page level.

I believe this comment was directed at 1stPhorm who had all the anchored links.

I'll answer it as if so.

Go back and read the Anchor Text Wanker Smect email.

There's a lot to help you in there on this topic.

Short answer:

If that was my site, I'd try to get the anchors changed first.

No need to take the negative link loss if you don't have to.

Not an option?

Now I'm going to disavow at page level each of those low quality exact anchors.

Then I'm going to get them crawled and indexed after Google has 48 hours with my disavow file to process it.

Also, I'm going to use LinkResearchTools.com, not OurRefs for this.

Only works if you get the majority of the offending links.

H-Refz isn't that tool.

Moving on...

My question, do you have a strategy where I can buy a couple of links and boosts from you where I could target multiple city pages?

For local companies with smaller link budgets, I would build my location pages in the manner I describe in the thread below.

https://twitter.com/GrindstoneSEO/status/1741507371388813544

I'd also re-read that case study I shared in Email 3.

Not going to link it, Beserker only gives me three links and I'm not sure how many more I'll need.

What, you're not saving my emails?

That's a shame.

And one more from another email...

Question. Link Boost package to my internal pages of my business website. Risky or not?

I responded with no.

Hard NO.

These are designed (and work very well) to power up your existing higher authority links even further, pushing you up the SERPS.

Even if your internal pages are high authority, not recommended.

Future proof your SEO, we don't know how Google will change in 2-3 years.

Protect your money site like it's yo neck.

Follow up question came in...

What about 301s or redirected domains?

Still no. A properly executed 301 will push 85-90% of what's behind it into the target.

Putting your site at potential risk for future Iterations of Google.

If you've got domains you want to power up, slap some content up on them with your non exact anchor links and hit those with some Boosts.

AI makes this all too easy and this is one of my favorite tactics to climb on page 1 once I get there.

Build a well crafted actually-Private mini network of domains with decent links, then Boost them repeatedly.

No, we won't build those for you.

Way too much work and if I had the extra bandwidth, I'd be scaling into more of my own properties.

But if you want links that move the needle, https://clients.grindstoneseo.com

You can book consulting calls there too if that's more your speed.

All I have for the day, back to work for me.

Thanks for the questions, keep them coming.

Cheers,

Grind

P.S. no PS today