6 Stupid Ways To Build backlinks To Your Site
One of the biggest problems we face with SEO is that, almost everyone thinks that they are an expert with it, Many people have no idea what SEO is all about and under what algorithms search engines functions and what metrics they use to rank websites but they go about building a SEO company and start to offer services that typically makes no sense and also doesn’t yield any results. Here are some of the stupid ways people use to build links to their websites thinking that it will help them to rank high search engines.
1. Linking From Your Own Sites:
I see a lot of webmasters running hundreds of thousands of sites, so what they do when they start a new website? Well they add a link back from all those sites to the new one. Why it is stupid? Its not stupid if you add a nofollow tag. But when you make it do-follow there are two problems, first one is that, there is a huge chance that all of these sites are hosted under the same server and all of these sites share the same ip address, this kind of links triggers spam alerts in search engines and possibly penalize the site.
Second problem is that when you build a huge amount of backlinks over night it doesn’t look natural to search engines, so there is a chance that you are again asking for trouble from search engines.
2. Submitting To General Directories:
Just know that general directories no more hold any value in search engines and your links on them won’t be counted as a valuable inbound link, so don’t waste your time and effort on them, If you can find a good quality paid niche oriented directories then that is where you can place your links on.
3. Spamming Comments Across Other Blogs:
In fact this thing its on the rise recently, lots of webmasters try to use automated tools to comment across various blogs with their links, but really this is useless, search engines have developed complex algorithms now that will easily detect spam comments and links in the blog comment area and don’t value them as a back link, even if it does it will not do any good for your rankings.
4. Spamming Social Media Sites:
Another stupid way to build links is by spamming social media sites like digg.com, there are automated tools available now that will submit your links automatically to these sites, but how useful they are? I would say its useless to submit all your links to these sites unless you are running a news site, secondly when you do not have a story that is will excite users then its useless to submit links to these sites. Sites like digg take spamming seriously and if they find you are spamming all the links of your site in to their site they will not mind to ban you. and most social media sites don’t pass link juice.
5. Building Links On Dead Blogs And Forums:
I would say building links on a dead blog and forums is like digging a well in the middle of the desert, in the first place its impossible to dig a well, secondly you are not going to get any water no matter how deep you dig. So its useless to build links on blogs and forums which are not updated for months together.
6. Creating Free Blogs To Build Links:
These people think they are intelligent actually, they build blogs on various sites that offer free blogs, and build blogs on these sites and post a couple of articles in all these blogs copied from somewhere and they add a link to their main site from there. Really free blogs can pass some link juice but not instantly, secondly they can pass link juice only when they are updated frequently otherwise they are as good as building links on a dead blog. Thirdly it takes a lot of effort and time which could be spent building quality links. In my opinion following this strategy is the most stupidest idea one could have to build links.
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