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Sounds and looks shady, but seems to work well. A family friend is dealing with a company that uses this. Aside from not seeing any visible work being done, no data produced to this point, no content to be seen either on my friends site or external sites, no visible inbound links, the site does rank fairly well. My gut tells me it ranks well because the competition isn't very strong but I don't know for sure.
One thing that exists on their website, which was redesigned in 2016, is links on the bottom of the pages saying, "Serving XXX, XXX, XXX." I thought this was frowned upon? I see it all the time and on top ranking sites. I've stayed away from it personally, b/c it seems spammy but it seems to work. I mean, even the content is spammy to me.
I'm hesitant to point them in the wrong direction despite all of my feelings pointing to this "tactic" being utter BS. I don't want to see her lose any rankings and resulting business. Although, she has no clue where her business is coming from.
I've never been good at making definitive calls like this. I should tell her to run but...
One thing that exists on their website, which was redesigned in 2016, is links on the bottom of the pages saying, "Serving XXX, XXX, XXX." I thought this was frowned upon? I see it all the time and on top ranking sites. I've stayed away from it personally, b/c it seems spammy but it seems to work. I mean, even the content is spammy to me.
I'm hesitant to point them in the wrong direction despite all of my feelings pointing to this "tactic" being utter BS. I don't want to see her lose any rankings and resulting business. Although, she has no clue where her business is coming from.
I've never been good at making definitive calls like this. I should tell her to run but...