I have recently branched out to include SEO in my web development services, but I feel grossly underqualified. One of my current clients is competing in local SEO against a company which has generated over 2,500 backlinks according to ahref's backlink checker.
What has left me awestruck is whoever is running their campaign has taken the time to use free content hosting and blog services like netlify, brandyourself, about.me, Blogspot, enetget, and just too many obscure places to list here. Around 76% of the links are dofollow according to ahref, and they are smashing it in local SEO.
This might normally be okay, but they have multiple versions of their website, all on different domains, which often rank on the top page together.So it has left me wondering, is this standard practice in local SEO? It seems to be very very successful, at least for niche services, but the amount of time needed for a campaign like this is unimaginable. Unless there is a way to automate it, or maybe there are ways to offshore the work to make it affordable?
The good news is, somehow my client's site is ranked 2-4 on average for 2 of the main services they offer. So I can beat some of their sites, but never their main one.
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