Website SEO - all about back-links?

DoubleCheese · 28 May 2012 at 11:22

I been keeping an eye on a few sites and seeing what Google Alerts pulls in for specific search terms they would be using. All I seem to see in the Google Alerts is loads and loads of really poorly written blogs with links to other poor blogs and then back to the site that is paying for the "SEO".

Is this all there is to it, get a bunch of sites to write a load of nonsense about your product, get the backlinks and get up the Google ranks? Or have I missed something?

GravyMonster · 28 May 2012 at 11:35

No, that is a black-hat technique which will get you excluded from results in the long run.

uniQ · 28 May 2012 at 13:44

That isn't SEO it's spam.

DoubleCheese · 28 May 2012 at 15:27

This is what I thought at first and I couldn't believe for a second that humans actually read the blog posts. They are so poorly written it almost like a machine feed with occasional keywords thrown in for luck.

Rroff · 28 May 2012 at 15:39

DoubleCheese said:
This is what I thought at first and I couldn't believe for a second that humans actually read the blog posts. They are so poorly written it almost like a machine feed with occasional keywords thrown in for luck.

Think I came across an example of that earlier while searching for something to do with eve online - came across this page which seems to make no sense at all at first but then I realised it was probably for "priming" search engines:

http://hawaiidermatology.com/somer/somer-blink.htm

englishpremier · 29 May 2012 at 11:50

I think building link wheels is a suitable technique so long as each site, blog, article etc.. is unique.

For example with one of my sites, i have a squidoo lens, a tumblr blog, and articles published on Ezine articles. However it's all totally unique content.

What this guy has probably done is use an article spinner, then something like AMR to submit spun articles to blogs and other sites. That's totally blackhat in my book.

feedtheram · 29 May 2012 at 20:19

Back links are good but they have much more value depending on the source...from what i've read. Lots and lots of high quality content is the other great way of getting up the rankings.

blade007 · 29 May 2012 at 21:51

Looks like 'spun' content, from a spinner.

Defo black hat as it's just content **** to get a link.

blade007 · 29 May 2012 at 21:53

I can't believe they put a spam filter on the word 'parc' - reverse it

michaelp · 1 Jun 2012 at 11:02

haha gotta switch it to rubbish or something =P and the way googles search engine works is constantly changing so i think just building a good site using meta tags and having keywords when applicable is the way to go.

Also they look at your bounce back rate and such so if the majority of people visit your site and just go back out they'll rank you further down for it.