Comments on: Natural links are better than non-natural

By: Email Lists Dude

Email Lists Dude — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:28:42 +0000

Responding and commenting on relevant articles is definitely the way to get back links for your web site. I spend time using Google Alerts to find the articles that meet my criteria.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:16:59 +0000

I probably receive 2-3 emails per day from people offering link building or other SEO services. I feel sorry for the people who buy into these services when all they really receive will be comment or forum spam links back to their sites.

By: Tasha Harrison

Tasha Harrison — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:17:16 +0000

I find the whole linkbuilding thing extremely complicated. Is a natural link like leaving a comment on a blog or a forum? If so, if I leave a comment on 5 different blogs every day 7 days a week is that considered unnatural?

I just don’t want to do the wrong thing but as I say, it is quite confusing for someone new to blogging like me.

By: Frank (mr Lhasa Apso)

Frank (mr Lhasa Apso) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:23:24 +0000

@Matt I agree, exploring the internet about this topic I was amazed how many webstes are trying to tricker me for paid links and/or so called free links, I found directories were an average surfer never wil find his goal, it´s getting worse by the day.

best regards Frank

By: Mazed

Mazed — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:51:25 +0000

Link bombing not only gets your site blacklisted by Google but makes the web a cruel place!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:39:40 +0000

I think the only way to eliminate spam is to change the internals of the search engine. Like any system, Google can easily be manipulated. People have figured this out about Google and it seems that the only way Google can control this is through fear and undefinable words … “natural links.” It’s kind of a shame that good things can be ruined by the masses.

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:32:29 +0000

Every linkbuilding service I’ve run into that has provided thousands of links at a low cost to my clints ended up creating splogs, comment spam, and forum spam. What a great way to wreck the Web – clog it up with garbage.

By: Millard

Millard — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:09:16 +0000

I tend to agree with “My Only Self”. Yes, I suck up to High Ranking bloggers, not just to learn, but for the opportunity for backlinks. What other way is there?

By: Seo London

Seo London — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:35:38 +0000

It might be true but Google is weak at analyzing back links and there real quality . Google should have to give more weight to fresh relevant content rather then links so that searchers can get the best .

By: My Only Self

My Only Self — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:23:27 +0000

No offense to intended to “Natural Links” but how the heck are you supposed to get a natural link? You need incoming links to get indexed, you need incoming links to get high in the search results, so it follows that you need incoming links to get traffic which you would need to get “natural links”

Most of us are not Matt Cutts of Google who has everyone and his dog linking to him.

Commenting on blogs is unnatural because you have to look for non no-follow, posting on forums in not natural because everyone has the same “Make a million dollars ask me how” link in their siggy so I sure know why they are posting and it has nothing to do with wanting to visit with all their buds online.

Submitting to directories is unnatural because your submitting, heck submitting to google and waiting 6 weeks would be unnatural because your ASKING to be indexed and then you’re gonna be so far down the SERPS that you might as well never asked to be indexed to begin with.

Sucking up to all the “online community” leaders is unnatural because you don’t really care about that community you just hope someone puts you on their blogroll.

Writing articles at the article sites and the lenses/hubs/barrels are just backlinks.

I’ve had the occasional blog get indexed for 3 days without any incoming links but it vanishes quick and never comes back.

If you want natural links you need to think up a better system because at the moment the internet is littered with blog farms and crap directories, and a zillion and a half “submit your site” here sites.

Maybe if CONTENT was more important than LINKS instead of linkfarms we could all just type a bunch of nonsense sentences and call it CONTENT.

All that being said, I love googles search engine, but unless you can come up with a system that does not entail actively looking for incoming links to your website which by the way you WANT to get listed or you would’ve just wrote it in MS Word instead, you are going to have to accept the fact that all the most of the natural links are not.

They are just natural appearing links between friends, associates, and other desperate webmasters trying to stay in the index.

Thanks for your time

My Only Self