Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?

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I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that).

For Example:

Me and my competitor both are targeting on keyword "foo" and my competitor is paying me for linking his site from my site with keyword "foo".

What I want to know is if I do that will my site's position go down in Google search results?

or it will make no difference?

Solution :

You're introducing a degree of extra competition, yes, although it's a drop in a very big ocean.

I'd be far more concerned with the fact that you're selling links. I recommend reading Google's (and other search engines') guidelines on that.

No not bad at all. But your competition will be so high as your competitor website use it. You can also make it a long tail keyword or any similar to that keyword and use it.

Thanks

Your giving your competitor two advantages here:

1. a targeted keyword from a page about the same semantic field (and even more on a whole website targeting the same semantic field), so you help them rank higher


2. a direct link for your visitors to your competitor for short-term money

Even when forgetting about the SE guidelines, you tell your visitors to go to your competition, so each prospect you send to them is a prospect you lose knowingly to your competition.

So it's bad for both SEO and brand value.

If the issue about seo, google, search-engines, google-search is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.