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[searchenginewiz]

I'm experimenting with Blogs to create links.

I only have 1 x blog right now, and I've submitted that url to Google. It's a genuine blog I update most days.

I've got around 10 links on it, 4 of these are my web sites I'm trying to generate some links to.

I have seen blogs pointing links to web sites thru Google, it appears to list blogs quite favourably.

Is this spam? It's a genuine blog, and anyone could have linked the the above mentioned web sites.

So this is the discussion topic....if we generated, say 100 blogs, all being updated once/twice a month (as most blogs are), with links to a variety of web sites (but of course including your own web sites you're trying to SEO)....would this be perceived as spam?

No blog would look the same, no blog would repeat itself. Links lists would all vary to a degree. Everything hand made.

[Jill]

So this is the discussion topic....if we generated, say 100 blogs, all being updated once/twice a month (as most blogs are), with links to a variety of web sites (but of course including your own web sites you're trying to SEO)....would this be perceived as spam?

Sounds like spam to me, but maybe I'm not understanding the true purpose of these blogs. (Other than to artificially inflate your link pop.)

[Randy]

Given the nature of the question I would have to agree with Jill.

It really comes down to intent. If your sites garnered links from 100 blogs that are real blogs it wouldn't be spammy at all IMO.

However if the whole purpose of, or even main idea behind, creating the blogs in the first place is an attempt to skew Google's results because of their heavy reliance on links, then you've crossed the line of becoming spammy.

Not to mention that there are lots of easier ways garner 100 links.

[Jill]

searchenginewiz, you may want to read the articles posted at the top of link building forum for some great ideas on building link popularity in a non-spammy manner.

Good luck!

Jill

[Brian Turner]

So this is the discussion topic....if we generated, say 100 blogs, all being updated once/twice a month (as most blogs are), with links to a variety of web sites (but of course including your own web sites you're trying to SEO)....would this be perceived as spam?

No blog would look the same, no blog would repeat itself.  Links lists would all vary to a degree.  Everything hand made.

Well...it's not so much that I'd worry about it being spam - as much as being generally poor value.

If the blogs themselves have precious little content, and you are not promoting the blogs in search engines, that it's hard to imagine what sort of value these actual links may have - especially if we're talking about just a few hundred very low quality links to the main site being generated.

After all, not all links are created equally.

Point is - would it be worth your time to actually set up such a scheme, in terms of cost-benefit analysis?

Most probably you will find there is a heck of a lot of investment of time and money required to get this working on a commercially success level.

[lisphacker]

So this is the discussion topic....if we generated, say 100 blogs, all being updated once/twice a month (as most blogs are), with links to a variety of web sites (but of course including your own web sites you're trying to SEO)....

You could try that.

Or you just be interesting.

There are essentially two schools for thought in SEO: be interesting or be everywhere.

Both work differently for different people. What ends up happening, though, is that interesting content circulates itself, once it reaches blogs and forums. Having 100 blogs of good content is impossible unless you have 50+ authors. In that scenerio, you would spam different indeces with your content and be ignored at best and scorned at worst.

There's always those "bottom feeders" that try and sell secrets to eternal life through magnetic bracelets or secrets to making money fast (which, by the way, the secret to making money fast is selling other people what they believe will be the secret to making money fast).

Don't be that guy (or gal).