Oh, don’t use html in the comment box or you’ll get blacklisted. lol
Hmmmm… I’ve heard this before but I’ve seen tons of sites who do this and are looking good in Inktomi at least. Not sure where the blacklisting comes into play???
can somebody explain all this to us dummies?
Simple, you can go around and insert comments into blogs, guestbooks etc. with a link back to your site. If you insert HTML into the comments section, you can add multiple links back to your sites with keyword rich anchor text.
Why do this? Backlinks pay a huge role in getting your site listed high in the Search Engines.
Manually this is a tedious process, but I think it probably works quite well if you dont mind off-topic back links. Do searches for fairly competitive keywords (Inktomi specifically), then check the high ranking sites backlinks and you will see a lot of guestbook and blog links.
I too have heard of automated scripts that do this process for you, but have yet to uncover a good one. Also, many blogs and guestbooks now require that you enter a validation key before the post is added.
From what I’ve seen, some high ranking sites have literally hundreds of blog and guestbook backlinks and somewhat poor on-page SEO so I’m thinking it must be a somewhat effective means of getting a site ranking higher.
This is considered spam by many, but what is spam really? Is it unsolicited? Not if done right. Many sites invite you to sign their guestbooks and allow a link. So, if done respectfully I see no huge problem with it.
The bottom line is, everything online marketers do is aimed at getting an “edge” or working the angles on parameteres set by others. If you do it well, and within the set parameters then why should people bitch?
I’m neither for or against it, but it is a viable option to build backlinks.
Sorry for rambling on, I got carried away 