Tiered back links
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Playing catch up with latest SEO techniques and wanted to ask the community what opinion is with generated tiered back links.
For example, in one month having - 50 tier one links, 250 tier two links and 1000 tier three links generated within articles forums, social networks, guestbooks etc.
In my view this is blackhat, my question is - is this still acceptable? or will it be damaging my domain?
Thank you.
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Google has been fighting link spam and link schemes for a long time. They have an entire team dedicated to rooting it out and penalizing it. Lots of people have lost websites from doing exactly what you are talking about doing.
The best approach is to build a great website. If you build a website that does not engage visitors well and promote it with links Google will identify the behavior of your visitors as inferior and fail to move your site up in the rankings. It is like lipstick on a pig. Google will recognize it.
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Thanks for the answer. Is this still valid even if I haven't had any identified as toxic links?
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If these links were going to be manufactured and pointed at my site, I would be scared that I would get an unnatural links penalty or a Penguin problem. The people who have been hit with Penguin have been waiting two years to get out. Two Years. So, if you get hit, you might as well toss your site away.
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