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Old 12-23-2006, 10:33 PM   #1
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Default Newsgroup backlinks a good thing for ranking?

Hi, my site is just 3 months old, doing OK in MSN but poor on Google. In the early days, before I had read up on SEO, I thought the occasional post (no more than 10) to relevant newsgroups would be useful in promoting my site.

I'm now wondering if Google could be penalising me for backlinks that they might consider as spam?
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Old 12-24-2006, 12:03 AM   #2
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don't use newsgroup, use forums and blogs instead: they are real webpages and get indexed.
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Well, my backlink check shows 10 newsgroup backlinks, so it looks like they are getting picked up - one of them is even ranked 3 by google!

The rest are 0, but I still wonder if newsgroup backlinks are otherwise 'bad' links.
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Go for blogs mainly they are more looked upon rather than newsgroup
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Well, my backlink check shows 10 newsgroup backlinks, so it looks like they are getting picked up - one of them is even ranked 3 by google!

The rest are 0, but I still wonder if newsgroup backlinks are otherwise 'bad' links.

well, if if they have a PageRank they are real webpages, on what domain are they? google groups, similar services?
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They are all useful as long as it is in the Google index.
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The one that ranks 3 is http://news-reader.org/own.health.aromatherapy/.
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They can definatly help with getting your site cached more regularly.
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They can definatly help with getting your site cached more regularly.

Ahhh, well if that's true then that's useful I guess.
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