Unethical Link Builders...? Options

[wowyourfunny]

I had to ask

I have been working with these 2 link builders for 3 months, i pay them for pr2,pr3,pr4 links

I paid then the links went live.. they sent a report of URLS and it worked... i was indexed on these pages

then slowly traffic slowed, lost rankings, couldnt figure it out

only 1-2 months later, i looked back at the links and 90% of them are no longer on those sites

can someone tell me:

a - is this a scam
b - what is the natural way to build links? anyone have a good systematic approach?

thanks!

[projectphp]

a. True.
b.i. Find sites that are wiling to do it. Come up with link worthy stuff.
b.ii. "Systematic" == Crap, unfortunately!

[nethy]

Its a scam if they told you they were going to do something else. Otherwise its a service with a limited life.

Unfortunately, systematically negates naturally.
You could pay more and to more trustworthy fellows, then maybe you'd get more.

[adybee]

b.i. Find sites that are wiling to do it. Come up with link worthy stuff.

Projectphp's right - only thing that matters in link building (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

wowyourfunny - are these links from text link brokers? If so you can set them up again (if they're worth it)

[Ash Nallawalla]

a - is this a scam
b - what is the natural way to build links? anyone have a good systematic approach?

a. Only if the linker is in cahoots with the link provider. A lot of directory owners periodically lose links for any number of reasons - deliberate removal, server corruption and no backup, etc. If you spelt out whether you are paying for a link or for submitting them (means no guarantee they are accepted), then you can answer the question yourself.


b. Creating awareness of your site through various online and offline means so that others naturally link to you. If your site is a great resource, you won't need to ask for good links.

Ash

[aaron653]

I wrote an article for a site (with my site's link at the bottom). It was initially very easy to view my article at that site because the link to my article was in the home page (for the first few days). But now it is not. I had to do a number of searches and finally got my article there.

And I try not to be pessimistic but I have to. It seems that one day they would remove my link.

I agree that best inlinks are when people link to you wishfully.

[qwerty]

a. Only if the linker is in cahoots with the link provider. A lot of directory owners periodically lose links for any number of reasons - deliberate removal, server corruption and no backup, etc. If you spelt out whether you are paying for a link or for submitting them (means no guarantee they are accepted), then you can answer the question yourself.

That is, unless the links they got you were on crap sites and FFA pages (if such things even still exist). In that case, any decent and/or honest link builder would recognize that it wasn't worth the time it took to get links from these pages. If these people are just playing a numbers game of getting links whether they'll stick or not, I'd blame them, whether they stipulated that they were doing this or not.