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Does posting links in comments on Linkedin count as blackhat?

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rhiannondavies Subscriber last edited by

Hello,

I noticed a competitor site has started writing a post on linkedin and then adding the link to the article they are referencing in the comments section. I started to dig into this and came up with this useful post https://growthrocks.com/blog/linkedin-abtest-link-in-comment/ to me that all screams black hat, spamming and scamming...

What does the Moz Community think?

Sincere thanks for feedback and I hope you're safe - wherever you are...

Rhiannon
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The_Video_Valley last edited by

From my point of view, as long as it's done in a natural way and not in a spammy way, it should not count as black hat.
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