Submissions to article directories
We recently found a situation with one of our customers, where a company had phoned up offering to boost their rankings with “a little trick” they could offer.
The trick consisted of multiple postings in a local gossip column. They went ahead and set it up and sure enough back links were over 800 form this gossip site.
Unfortunately the site is not in the same market or sector as our client and so each link counts for nothing. Further to this, each posting when you clicked though, showed each post no longer existed.
So its not just about backlinks. They must be coming from a connected source or a site in a similar sector. Links like these achieve nothing and in some cases may in fact lower your ranking as it gives the impression you are spamming.
Moral: Keep building your links to associated sites.So for example if you do car repairs, anything under motoring is related and this gives you a fairly large market to hit.
Those are the types of links you should be aiming to build.
Tags: link building, relevant links