One of the most interesting things about working for clients is that they’ll ask questions I don’t know the answer to. This happened last week. The question was:
"I have lots of incoming links from templates that we sell. That must help us to rank well…"
Of course, lots of companies add a link back to their own site from templates that they sell or give away. For some companies, this can add up to 1000s of incoming links. However, my immediate instinct was to say "no". That gut reaction was based on two factors:
- If the links did help them rank well, the client wouldn’t be talking to me
- Search Engines generally don’t enjoy seeing hundreds of repetitive links with the same anchor text, because they are so easy to spam.
However, I didn’t know for sure and didn’t have any evidence to back up my claims. So, in this post I’ll answer the question, "Do Joomla template links work?"
Read on and find out the answer…
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