Fig 5 : Domains masquerading as well-known news sites
Fig 6 : Proof of Acroud ’ s success
This is the logic behind the first such pieces of content submitted in 2022 , but it evolves further . Why leave it all to chance , decided Acroud Media , when that content can get some help ranking even better and faster ? Acroud Media submitted its Best Online Casino UK press release in December 2022 and , besides the regular press release distribution routes provided by NewsDirect itself ( which included placements in Yahoo ! Finance and Nasdaq ), decided to create some additional links to it on its own .
To compare , the 2022 Betbeard piece has two links from two different domains . The Acroud Media piece has 243 links from 58 unique domains . Some of these links are pretty curious , like the series of domains pretending to be well-known news sites ( see Fig 5 ).
There is a large list of sites where you find all of the domains registered around the same time early this year . However , to get back to NewsDirect , Acroud Media ’ s efforts here paid off handsomely , at least for a while ( see Fig 6 ).
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