Should We Funnel Links To A Redirect or T2 instead of directly to a T1?
As in: Are web sites checking? Do they care if there are backlinks directly to your post on their site?
To be clearer: Should it be MS<-T1<--link shortener T2<---T3
or MS<--T1<---T2<---T3
Is that the idea in using a mega-big T3 and not so manyon T2? To avoid your important T1s from risking removal?
Thanks.
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In terms of spying competitors, yes, using redirects as T1 does help mask what is really going on and will significantly reduce your anchor text ratios. These services like ahrefs only report T1 links and referring domains. You get minimal information on T2 links and zero information on T3 links. Unless you go researching each url one by one from every tier, you won't easily see what is really happenning.
For me, the reason I use them as Tier 1 is because many of these sites have decent DA so using them as T1 links will boost your sites DA which will make it much easier to rank for keywords you're chasing. You can only point them once at each url on your site to benefit from this DA increase. Repeated submissions won't increase DA further. Using them in your tiers will also have the same effect on any link it points to.
Use them as T1 and in your tiers will be best. Each link will accumulate some DA that passes through to your website. So making thousands or even millions of links across tiers will accumulate significantly more juice that passes down to your website.
In terms of boosting keyword rankings, it's more like indirect seo. The links will boost your page DA which will in turn boost your rankings for any keywords your page is optimised for. But you can't control keyword rankings beyond this, as the links have no keywords. Some have keywords in the url which helps, but this is very different to using an article link which has your keyword as anchor text.
Best to test each one separately. Personally I don't think it even matters. As long as you have 3 tiers of do follow links, you can use these platforms in any order you like. I use them across all 3 tiers and I still see significant rank increases.
It's enough to make the T1 links boost your rankings.
But it's not enough to boost your T2 and T3 links. For that you'd need more tiers. For more competitive keywords, that's one way to compete by building past 3 tiers and building 5 tiers instead.