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Backlinking – writing the URL’s of one website on other websites in order to influence search engine results pages.
Since one of the measures many search engines use to determine website placement is the number of links a site has directed to it, many SEO’s manipulate the number of inbound links by searching the internet for various websites that allow the posting of links. Many of you have seen the spammy posts sprinkled into popular blogs, these posts containing “back-links” to various spammy websites.
Creating links outside a network(which includes the business facebook, twitter, pinterest, etc) in order to influence search rankings defeats the purpose of using links as a measure to begin with. Thus, black hat.
In the early days of the internet, when a website had a lot of links to it, the reason was that other people besides the website owner were linking to it. Why? Because it was a good and useful website.
The End. – Stephen James Hall
By the way, until 08-09 I used back-linking just like most everyone else still does.
Hi Stephan,
Well according to me the title of your post is bit incomplete.
It should be “Ir-relative Backlinking is Black Hat SEO” because getting a relative link is not considered into spamming.
Your business must have a backlink from only those webpages which are directly or indirectly related to your website or your business, or the users can get benefited from that.
Right?
It is incomplete, I left the word :”All” off the beginning. I appreciate your thoughts, I disagree. If the only reason you made your post was for the reference link I removed, You’re a spammer. If you were merely trying to add to the collective knowledge on this particular subject, you’re not a spammer.
When you say, ‘a relative link is not considered spam’ you’re wrong 🙂 I consider it spam if the only reason you went to this ‘relative’ website was to put a ‘relative’ link there. And as googlebot adjusts it’s perception of backlinking over time, due to all the backlink spam it deals with, I believe googlebot will eventually agree with me.
Just because there is a wooden fence next to the train station, does it have to be covered with graffiti and tacked up ads? It’s not just a confusing clutter, it’s disrespectful.