SEO CheckList

A post in the Text Link Ads blog particularly warned against buying text links in sites where all the paid links are mish-mashed because you might end up being surrounded by porn, online gambling and other similar web site links. Now, there are many who either don’t care about the quality of the web sites or just plain don’t know why they shouldn’t be paying for links in spammy sites.

Imagine your links are children in a classroom and Google is the teacher. Let’s say the class goes on a field trip. On the way home, to ensure no kid gets left behind, the teacher asks the children to line up. She then proceeds to doing a head count. Now, do you think that when the head count is satisfied, the teacher simply nods its head and everyone takes off? Not in the very least. What if some other kid got mixed in the bunch? What if you actually inadvertently brought home someone else and left one of the students behind? No, the teacher examines the students to confirm that they’re the children in the class.

Google does that too, albeit in a much grander scale. In an effort to inflate your back link count, you jump on a $20 offer for 1800 back links or something similar. You think you can fool Google. Maybe in the short run, you can. However, give Google enough time to examine your backlinks and they’ll end up being worth zilch. Google’s algorithm is designed not only to count text links but also to determine what kind of web site links back to you. If that web site has thousands of links to unbecoming web sites, that’s a minus point for you, not a plus. Lesson is, links from spammy sites are a big no-no. Work hard on getting legit, clean links instead.