10 Insane Ways To Build Links


linking.jpgAre you white hat or black hat? White hat SEOs build inbound links at a steady pace and focus on quality, rather than quantity. Black hat SEOs take the opposite route and funnel in as many links as possible in a bid to create brand awareness.

They don’t care if their activities yield poor quality networks and sometimes offend other webmasters in the process. Are you guilty of the following poor link building procedures?

Directory Spamming

1. Blast your site to 10000 cheesy paid-inclusion directories (rating $5 a pop) that send a whopping zero traffic.

Forum Spamming

2. Rattle off 500 URLs in your sig file. It screams “I’m desperate”

3. Post only when you can add links to your sites in the post area. Doofuses kept sending viagra URLs to my radionics forum that I implemented rules preventing urls until 50 SENSIBLE posts were made.

4. Fire off “me too” posts to amass your post count. It gets worse when you accompany each bit of nonesense with a link-rich signature file.

5. Create a phoney debate on the best [GREATGADGET], where [GREATGADGET] is an cool doodad that you sell. Then, you intelligently use the same IP address create another forum account and banter back, raving about how ubercool your own site is.

6. Create 20 accounts per day at new forums asking people the same question about viagra even at AIDS Awareness websites. Of course, you don’t forget to post your 500URL sig file.

7. Revive forum threads that ended a decade ago just to plug link to your semi-related website on cialis.

Blog Spam

8. Judiciously signing blog comments with spammy keywords. It’s okay to sign up as Sex God or SEO Dude. That’s cool. But when you sign as “Cialis Viagra Levitra Wholesale”, I reach for the shotgun.

9. Commenting how your secret eBook marketing methods made you 500Million a year- on the FeedNigeria charity blog.

10. Creating a 10,000-strong blog empire all on the same webhost/IP using RSS2Blog and linking them to your mainsite. You can almost hear the google engineers cackling before they push the button that tanks your pagerank


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  • LOL what's all this about signing blog comments with spammy keywords.  Now who in their right mind would do that?
  • Awesome list, had similar problems with morons spamming our comments section (which are currently offline for cleaning!) - if anyone wants to join me on a jihad against the *pharmacy people drop me an email... We're implimenting per-ip limiting now as well as the captcha, akismet, and cookie scanning methods. They must be so bored writing bots to crack all this.
  • I agree, the viagra/cialis guys need shot, I logged into one of my students sites the other day and there were 56 comments form the same guy, one on every single post! and akismet didn't catch it!

    Anyways, you said you set your forums to where the user can not post a link until 50 posts... I have a few forums I run and I've never seen this in the options, but yet I see may forums using it/talking about it. I use phpbb on all of my forums, can you point me in the right direction? I want to set mine to maybe 5-10, I think that should be good.
  • list can be named "how to: spam" =)) joke
    Btw leaving links on .edu sites is not even spam - it is breaking of laws!
  • I enjoyed reading this list!
  • I got a strange offer for a free Nokia 5110 last year. If I recall- that's been obsolete since 2000!
  • This is so true. I get so many viagra and cialis trackbacks and comments everyday.
    Plus the occasional free iphone.
    It really pisses me off.
    Sometimes though there are some good sites that really just get a bit overzealous
  • Dave Eaves
    Nothing spammy about submitting to directories.
  • Too Funny! I think at one point in everyone's early stages and sometimes even later stages of SEO, we have taken part in a few or all of those tactics you mentioned. To a degree. Another spammy tactic I have heard of is creating a number of different users on the social bookmarking and networking sites to get a link back from the profile page. There are about 25-30 of the main ones that "dofollow".
  • You could visit dead forums, that haven't had a new thread in a year, and spam each thread with a long list of pharmaceutical links.

    Thanks I had a decent laugh reading this.
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