Yahoo backlinks, often acquired through press release services, are presented as a supplementary "pillow link" strategy for diversifying a backlink profile rather than a primary driver for significant ranking improvements.
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Yahoo backlinks are they good is it
worth to get them how do you get them I
saw something like this
prologue.org it's like a press release
thing but isn't it spammy since it
mentions complementary Report with the
links to where your release has appeared
to approximately a hundred sites
or would it be a good idea for a viral
campaign or would it be better to
outreach in each websites that have the articles
articles
re-distributed by Yahoo
and ask them for a price
um so actually I'm not really familiar
with Yahoo backlinks but there's a lot
to unpack here do you know about Yahoo
backlinks so you could buy them off
Fiverr okay um so fiverr.com if you're
not familiar with them you can get these
backlinks you can also
get a press release which is what you're
talking about uh PR log right people
will write a press release for you
they'll release it on PR log or
something comparable
um quote viral campaign
they're good links but we consider things
things
um pillow links right like so like at
the beginning of a campaign it's
something that can give you a little bit
of energy not in the sense that you're
gonna like shoot up to page one but that
you're diversifying your backlink
profile it makes sense for a new
business to want to get their name out
there and maybe it's not the most
press-worthy like people are going to
digest it's going to go viral kind of
information however you know let's say
you got a new website for your business
that's still something that's press
worthy in the form of crawlers right so
to me
cheap press releases or so still
something that's viable and and still
worthwhile and Yahoo plays into that um
um
but it's not going to make you number
one for the majority of serps that
you're going after and in relationship
so useful yeah it's still useful because
it helps diversify your backlink profile
from just doing naturally you know yeah
exactly link to your home page for
anchor text you the Branded anchor URL
link or whatever yeah and in relation to
your like the last question that you got there
there
um I don't know that you could actually
reach out to Yahoo themselves and be
like hey
um you know got this new I think you
said the websites the other websites not
Yahoo but reach out to the websites that
Yahoo distributes through it's not
worthwhile it's like I'm just going to
be honest it's not worthwhile if you if
you want to take like this like this
press movement kind of like mentality to
things then look up a great Harrow um
um
press release kind of person where
they're actually like talking to
reporters they're getting information
out there you've gotta like they they're
digesting a bunch of information
um it's more legit you need some actual
like news but even if you're doing Haro
I would still say that this press
release is a great option as far as
pillow linking and if you don't know
what pillow linking or foundational
linking is we've got articles on that
we've got videos on that just type it
into YouTube or our search bar on our
website and um you know try and digest
what that is but
um I would say you know conjunction
um all of this together equals a
narrative that Google is looking for
that is extremely hard to
um emulate
um easily anyway
so yeah just to recap real quick
um you know like Nick said we look at
these things kind of like as pillow
links they're not gonna like really like
boost your rankings like a ton they can
definitely help a little bit yeah
um but yeah don't don't look at it as
like a main tool to use right you can
use them every now and then don't
overuse them for sure if you start over
using these things
um I I just yeah would not overuse them
cheap press release like once every six
months max if you're doing like your
solid backlinking campaign so yeah once
a year is much safer
like mentioned before use natural
anchors you know branded anchors or URL
anchors link to your home page only
don't try anything weird don't get
aggressive with it um
um
and then uh yeah for the last question
uh like Nick said it's not worth just
reaching out to these websites manually
because like we said these links aren't
very powerful on their own so you're
like wasting a ton of time to basically
build like a single pillow Link at a
time and then I think a lot of your a
lot of the answers from these websites
that you're going to try to reach out to
it's going to be a flat no we'll have
contracts with Yahoo that says you go
through us they're also to get to do
this they're also it's the same thing
with a lot of these like citation
Services they go through only through uh
I don't even remember what was that one
service that you have to like go through
to get some of the citations
um I think yext was a big one yeah yeah
that was the one that I used to mess
with you have to go through Yaks to get
this like awesome citation but that's
the funny thing too is like if you if
you reached out to
these websites that
um took on your press release the fact
of the matter is there's no [ __ ]
person there there's nothing there it's
a bot okay like these press releases are
set up by a corporation it says Hey here
it is it's on what's called a wire quote
a wire and it just automatically
syndicates to the wire
and that doesn't mean it's digested that
doesn't mean it's like put up forward
on like the front page of that editorial
it just means like okay
um you know we took it on yada yada but
it doesn't matter there's no human
interaction so all of a sudden if you're
like reaching out and you're going hey
I I said I got this new website and um
um
you know I'm trying to like get it
extend it to a like a a better portion
of the link or something it's not
worthwhile like you're not gonna get
anywhere because it's all bot driven
and that's the way majority of the
internet works
so this is I mean it says I don't
remember if this is the same person or
asked the original question but here's
an example of a Yahoo link and he was
saying I was looking at something like
this not really a press release so this
is that kind of different so I guess the
question has different parts if it's
asked by the same person uh but this
kind of looks more like a you know like
a PR link uh not press release but what
we'd actually call PR like a PR link
um yeah which is they're definitely
they're usually a bit like harder to
land I don't know how Yahoo Works maybe
it's easier to get these kind of links
on Yahoo
um yeah I'm not really sure if you can
get it huh
if you can get it yeah take it that's uh
that's a good link right like I think
this would be good to have yeah
um you know better than you know this I
feel like this is gonna be better than
uh like a press release
um link so yeah don't get confused
between because some people when they
say PR they mean press release but then
there's like PR PR which is usually like
super high end links on super high
Authority websites which is what this
looks more like this looks more like a
high-end PR link
um a lot of them they start at the same place
place um
um
you know if you've got solid PR
and typically like we're talking about
black cat kind of movement here at least
it sort of links a lot um
um
you got solid PR something that like can
be digested maybe go viral then there's
a higher chance of using a even cheap PR um
um
to get
like a lot of movement
um but it is incredibly rare
um to the point where
I think I only know one person
um that you know used a random PR
strategy and got like movement and vogue.com
vogue.com Etc
I'm just having a little quick look I
mean of course yeah the links are no
follow I just wanted to see if they were
having them marked as like ugc or
something too um
um
but yeah looks like no follow but um
um
yeah yeah this this could be good
um yeah so good link just depends um
um
is it gonna make you number one I don't
know but ultimately like right when we
talk about link building if the price
was right I'd get it
oh yeah 100 100 all right uh let's see
what we got
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