Comments on: Want Cheap Link Building? Think Twice!

By: Simon Hill

Simon Hill — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:58:00 +0000

At worst the links become devalued. All the ‘sky is falling’ Google is going to penalize my site is mostly nonsense. Otherwise wouldnt we just build crappy links to our competitors?
I notice if I build links aggressively the site will drop in the first week or two, but as long as I keep building links (dont freak out and stop what you are doingbecause you see site fall off the map) and then backlink to my first tier links the site always always always comes back better than ever.

By: David Iwanow

David Iwanow — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:31:00 +0000

Well it’s all fun and games till someone get’s index…

By: David Iwanow

David Iwanow — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0000

I’ve shared many things on Google Docs and never found it an issue, but yes there is always a problem sharing anything digitally. Even via DropBox should other work mates be sharing confidential documents in the same folder that external consultants/contractors have access to…

I’m wondering if the indexing issue relates to if their Elance project is public… also sharing any of these documents in an encrypted file helps reduce the potential risk…

By: James

James — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:52:00 +0000

I tend to find the best way to build links is using the Twitter API and XML Sitemaps

By: James Norquay

James Norquay — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:53:00 +0000

I think the problem is you deal with many amateurs who share these types of reports with the public, and even worse have them indexed on websites, another thing which I do not trust call me paranoid is sharing link building information on Google Docs, I see many people advising on it, I have never done it and never will.

By: Michael J. Kovis

Michael J. Kovis — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Dan, the sad part is, the reward these spammers are still able to gain from utilizing such terrible link building techniques is still outweighing the risk. I absolutely despise seeing link profiles like this killing me in the SERP’s. Nothing I can do about it directly though. We keep preaching about long-term gain of “white hat” techniques, but when you see information like this, and it works, it rattles your mentality a little bit.

Wil Reynolds just wrote about this topic yesterday on SEOmoz (well at least about the spammy link building still getting rewarded heavily). Did you happen to read it yet?

By: Woj Kwasi

Woj Kwasi — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:32:00 +0000

Google has crawled these spreadsheets & most likely flagged all “resources”

You may as well buy a lottery ticket

By: Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:07:00 +0000

!! Danger Danger !!