6 Stupid Backlinking Tricks That Destroy Your Blog
How To Blog For Newbies Day 23
Getting inbound links are probably the best SEO tricks you can ever do for your blog. However, links don’t come easy. People, again being the smart creature they are, has attempted to fool search engines from time to time. However, Google and his peers are getting harder and harder to fool with tricks like these:
Source: BlackHatSeo.com
1. Blog Spamming
This is a controversial subject. Many popular and well written blogs are given enormous importance by search engines. As a result, links from these blogs are organically important to bloggers whom are familiar with SEO techniques. Readers could subscribe to them to read the latest post and put in comments. Trouble usually starts from here.
Blog spammers will post unrelated messages containing links to URLs that the spammer wants to boost in the search rankings. Many bloggers now block readers from posting comments.
2. Guest Book Spamming
A guest book allows visitors to post their contact information and comments about a Website. Sadly, lazy bloggers or spammers started to post their blogs URLs in guest book comments to impress Google. Some actually resort to using programs to automatically post their URLs to add thousand of links with no manual effort.
3. Link Farms
Honestly, I have nearly fall into this trap in one of my experiment. Sneaky webmasters set up dozens of sites that can be crawled by search engines, just so they can put in thousands of links to sites they want to boost in search rankings.
Nearly all search engines like Google, Open Directory, Ask.com have powerful mechanisms in detecting deceptive practices related to their search results. A blog with a sudden explosion of inbound links from unrelated websites is definitely a sure fire way to court penalization.
4. Hidden Links
You can even hide links using the same technique I have explained in my earlier post on “5 Easy Ways To Get Your Blog Banned By Google“. Hiding links enables your links to be seen only by bots, so you can load a lot of links on high-ranking pages to other other pages you are trying to boost.
5. Link E-Mail Spamming
Instead of spamming the search indexes, this trick spams the inbox of unsuspecting bloggers, requesting links from their sites. Spammers and lazy webmaster would again use programs that unleash e-mail spam on websites.
6. Fake Two Way Links
Many sites will link to yours if you agree to link to theirs in return. However, some bad apples will try to trick you by employing links that search engines could not see. In this way, you might think that you got the link back but Google refuses to give you credit for it, allowing your more cunning ‘collaborator’ to get credit for the more valuable one way link from your blog site.
Just goto the linking site with JavaScript turned off and see whether the link to your site works.
So, just make sure you are not fooled and please do not indulge in trying to fool the search engines and anyone else.
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Comments
Thanks for the post. There is a lot of conflicting and confusing information out there about what is beneficial and what isn’t in terms of promoting your site. I’m certainly curious as to why some links never seem to show up in Google or Yahoo links even though a link clearly exists and is working. Does anyone have any theories?
Jon
Yup it is confusing especially on the linking criteria set by Google. In Yahoo, if you were to use proper gadgets to check on the backlinks, you would still find the hard-earned links that you have built. Google search algorithm is evolving so fast that any links that you have built might have been overlooked deliberately due to reasons only known to them.
However, I wouldn’t advise you to stop building backlinks now, just go slow. Only choose a few social bookmarks like reddit, squidoo. Remember, a good content is still the main criteria to attract links.
Man I know what you mean about sneaky! I have fallen into a couple of these traps once or twice – sometimes these methods are even being taught by ‘respectable’ guru’s. Crazy!
Thanks for listing them though – awesome.
Hi,
I am new at blogging and I found your whole blog very useful. Actually I am not very good with computers so I am just learning the lingo. I am excited about blogging but concerned about what is the best way. I have found many people do the personal life thing- I am more interested n providing support than making it about me.
Thanks for the info.
Olga