Back link pyramid
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Excuse me for such a newbie question but is using a backlinking pyramid black hat seo. I was trying to find out but every site gives you different advice on this subject.
Also If there is a type of backlinking structure that is best please let me know.
thanks
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SE = Search engines
they can see what you are up to
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Alan, when you say SE's to spot you who are you referring to. Sorry really new here not sure what you were saying.
Thank you for the response as well.
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Wow thank you so much for the responses they were very helpful. I was asking this question so I can learn proper seo not for the intention to black hat my way to the top. I have built a company from the ground up with my family and have no intentions of doing anything to harm our internet presence in any way.
I wanted to know if it was bad or not because I had a local seo guy wanted to build that type of structure for our site and wasn't sure.
Optimize - You freaking rock... now thats an answer... I am going to forward this over to the seo guy as the main reason why I won't be hiring him. lol
Thanks again...
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Thanks for this helpful information. In the future, it'd be great if you could add the links that cite your sources, and indicate which portions of your answer have been reproduced from existing content.
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Unless you are King Tut, pyramids by nature are bad. The most common black hat SEO techniques all center around link building schemes, from pyramids to paying for thousands of links.
Here are some basic Google no-no's
- Buying backlinks, or otherwise providing monetary compensation for backlinks (including offering discounts for links, as we saw when Google punished overstock.com)
- Creating many sites just to provide backlinks to other sites — also known as link pyramids.
- Putting hidden text on your website, including very small text stuffed with keywords, or text that is the same color as the background or otherwise invisible.
- Creating doorway pages — pages that are designed solely to attract search engine attention that then redirect users to a different website. It’s important to note that this is different from landing pages, which exist on your website and are perfectly okay.
- Using proxy servers or generating dozens or hundreds of IP addresses to make sites look like many sites, for the purposes of increasing backlinks.
- Having duplicate content stolen, or “scraped” from other sites just to make your site look like it has lots of content and updates.
Backlinking that you should be focused on.
It sounds like you are making it out to be the holy grail. Backlinking is one important part of SEO but don’t get so wrapped up in your backlinking that you neglect other vital aspects of your SEO. Having said that these are the best places to initially focus for backlinks:
- Blog Commenting
- Forum Comments & Footer Links
- Article Syndication w/ link(s)
- Directory Submissions (Paid & Free)
Your linking portfolio should probably contain a combination of all of the ones listed above and then some. Search engines can identify where a link is from and easily enough what type of link it is and if all of your link building is focused on one type of link then it won't look as natural.
Backlinking IS important – but it’s not everything. Use your head when creating your SEO backlink strategy and you’ll have a manageable program that can produce great results.
Goog luck.
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yes it is, you are trying to game the system, it is also very easy for SE's to spot, you will end up with a un-natural link message from google in your GWT
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