Here is a stupid blog-spam tactic you should avoid
Posted by Michael Martinez on October 19, 2007 in Web spam
“This is based on the SEO theory that links to posts inside your blog are more important than links to your home page.”
An increasing number of blogs are using this language and other very obvious spam justifications to surround link spam they are creating in order to inflate the value of their own blogs.
There may be people out there who actually believe that links pointing to your posts count more than links pointing to your root URL. Who comes up with this crap?
So these blog posts are populating more than one query that I check and they are starting to annoy me. This is nothing more than a link pyramid scam that is at the very least a waste of people’s time and at worst putting them at risk of losing their search visibility once the search engines decide they have had enough of the obviously duplicate content.
If you have a blog and you’re struggling to build its visibility and readership, don’t particpate in this clearly obvious link manipulation scam. If you’re going to manipulate links, understand that there is ALWAYS someone out there who will see what you are doing.
And other people may not be as nice as me and just give open notice on a blog post.
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6 Comments on Here is a stupid blog-spam tactic you should avoid
By incrediblehelp on October 20, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Arent both very beneficial to the overall link building of the blog. Not sure why you would ignore either type of link building.
By Michael Martinez on October 22, 2007 at 9:00 am
If you’re suggesting that participating in an obvious blog link spam tactic is a good idea, you might want to reconsider that advice.
Replicating the same “send us six dollars and add your name to the bottom of the list” Ponzi scam blog post across hundreds or thousands of blogs is not link building. It’s just spam.
By wibbler on October 23, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Im thinking that a given root url would naturally get a % of a sites total inbound links, and it does make some sense that sub pages on a site should get the remaining % of inbound links.
Id like to see an example though of a post populating serps for more than one query - could be a good “insight” into the power of links still?
Just a quick thought on it - if I had what you were seeing Mr Martinez - i’d be using the results to see how stuff is working.
Cheers
Wibbler.
By wibbler on October 23, 2007 at 3:31 pm
My Quote
“a post populating serps for more than one query”
I may have misread- probably I should have read that youre seeing multiple posts, each with a query.
Confused as usual.
By wibbler on October 23, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Ok - a quick revisit.
“This is based on the SEO theory that links to posts inside your blog are more important than links to your home page.â€
Id have to address the thought I had here regarding the above quote.
First up I would say that “importance” would be based on the requirement of the webmaster who receives the inbound link - I am assuming (unfortunately) that the “importance” relates to how the link will help a page rank in the serps.
1. If the receiving webmaster **wanted his homepage** to gain most of the value of any inbound link (in terms of increasing rank value of the homepage) - then surely the said webmaster would indeed require that the inbound link was targetted at the homepage.
2. If the receiving webmaster **wanted his subpage** to gain the most value of any inbound link (again interms of ranking value), then likewise the said webmaster would require that the inbound link was targetted at the subpage.
3. If the receiving webmaster did not care about using an inbound link to help a particular page increase in rank, then I would think it best to get a link to the root page.
Whilst blog spam is the intent of the original post - would anyone say that my 3 assumptions are correct anyway?
Cheers
Wibbler
By Michael Martinez on October 25, 2007 at 4:39 pm
October 25 Update - I did some checking and it looks like the guy who started this spam tactic launched it on September 28. Out of curiosity I looked at his Toolbar PR value and it was 0. Every blog replicating the post since then had a very low Toolbar PR value as well (none higher than 2 for the random blogs I checked).
I don’t know if Google’s October PageRank edits had anything to do with those blogs’ low PR values or if they just happen to be low PR sites.
I, personally, don’t care about Google’s Toolbar PR. But people who do care about Toolbar PR may want to think long and hard before engaging in further “SEO meme” link spam.
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