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I believe for a while that Google didn’t consider Domain Authority much. For a while, I would create pages like “Bank of XYZ Phone Numbers” or “Phone Numbers f
by Scoundreller 2y ago
I believe for a while that Google didn’t consider Domain Authority much.
For a while, I would create pages like “Bank of XYZ Phone Numbers” or “Phone Numbers for $ThatTelecomYouHate” and often rank #1.
Which made sense, because my page was just a very parseable page of their actual phone numbers, but obviously risk for harm there.
Phone numbers on the actual orgs’ websites were hard to find because, well, they wanted you to do anything but call them because calling cost them money. And the big corp websites were always an SEO mess that I’m not surprised a crawler could not comprehend.
Of course the ads were all for competitors, so I enjoyed making money and costing them customers at the same time.
After some years, Google would start returning you 10 different results from the orgs’ websites, playing into their hand of having you do anything but call your bank/telco.