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Placing Links On Sites, Overcoming Spammer Status

March 14, 2008

Placing links to my site on forum/blogs and even articles sites such as eZine, is sometimes problematic - not always they allow you to do that and sometimes they consider you as spammer, how to overcome that?

Another question from Yaron. Once again, thank you for your question. :)

Regarding forums, there’s a right way and a wrong way. The wrong way is to just join a forum add a link to your profile, and or submit a post that’s not related. There’s one piece of software that I came across that blasts out loads of links to heaps of forums via private messages and makes a reply back to another person’s forum. I tried the software out and I didn’t like the responses I got back. I prefer to have people visit my sites without them thinking I’m some kind of spammer.

I’m a forum owner as well and I would hate to have people posting on my forum with some kind of nonsense that’s not related to anything on the site. The software in question goes out and makes posts of hundreds if not thousands of forums with general questions. I shouldn’t even of tried it, but I was intrigued by what it could do. But once I found out that relayed my posts on these forums I figured it would of created a large enemy list. I’m no longer using the software now and I’m sticking to my guns of White Hat SEO.

Don’t get me wrong, posting on forums is just fine. Ensure that you can provide good content / advise to the previous poster or to the entire membership by creating a new topic on something that you feel would benefit others. You’ve seen my posts on the PPCClassroom forum, nearly 1000 posts, I’m sure many of those have helped people. And over 1000 posts both on Keyword Elite and SEO Elite Forum of which I’m sure also has helped a lot of people. There’s so much information on both of those forums I have posted on one could create an e-book on the stuff that I’ve handed out free, by simply searching for ask-me-about.com and truth-about-forex.com on those forums. :)

With Article Directories, it’s a little bit different, most allow you to post at least 3 links in your bio section. This is just fine and totally acceptable. EzineArticles in particular is very fussy in regards to the keyword density. We’re at the stage now that keyword density means diddly squat. Yahoo and MSN are slowly following suit, Google on the other hand rate pages less that are filled with the same keyword all over the place. it’s not so much how many of the same keywords you have on a page now, but what other related terms and professionally used associated words are used in that field the article topic is on. So I would advise that this should be your main focus.

I hope this helps. :)



Written by Loz · Filed Under General Info 

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2 Responses to “Placing Links On Sites, Overcoming Spammer Status”

  1. Blu Thunder on March 24th, 2008 7:40 pm

    Finally getting the hank of SEO and links to forum. Have observed some Black Hat as well and don’t won’t to get blown out of the water before I ever get started. Thanks Loz.

  2. Loz on March 24th, 2008 10:03 pm

    Hey Charles.

    I don’t practice BlackHat SEO, totally not worth it. And in my professional opinion it takes just as long to do BlackHat than it does WhiteHat. Not to mention that WhiteHat will be sustained a lot longer than any other method.

    Any Q’s you have, just let me know. :)

    All the best

    Loz
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