Backlinks are good for SEO and there are lots of ways to get links. There are natural links (people linking to your content in the normal course of business), web directory links, article directory links, link trading two way links, automated 2-way links, links from social networks, fully automated links, black hat, gray hat, white hat, and on and on.

Lots of the automated strategies leave a footprint that is detectable by Google and other engines.

From and SEO standpoint, this is really and issue of managing risk versus gain. Is the SEO gain that you get from using a strategy justified by the risk that you accept?

  • What do you use?
  • What do you think?
  • What is safe, OK or dangerous?


This thread is for an open discussion of this topic as brought up in the weekly SSWT webinar.

Regards,
Mark