bcc1234 - 2:12 am on May 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I need to get some inbound links for one message board site.
More than half of the pages are in the supplemental index of G. After doing some reading on the topic, I'm inclined to believe that getting more links and increasing PR is the way to get all pages into the primary index.

I've tried looking for link building experts, but I only see two types of offers out there.

One is where they offer a bunch of links from their own directories (and they don't admit that the directories are theirs, but it really seems that way). I think such links, even thousands or them, won't do any good.

The other kind of link builders I notices seem to plan the campaigns around spamming the whois e-mail addresses with requests to reciprocate in three-ways. They offer a link to the contacted webmaster from one of their sites in exchange for a link to my site.

The problem with the latter approach (aside from the ethics), is that if people start forwarding this e-mail spam to G, they might remove the site from the index or penalize it somehow. That would defeat the purpose of a link building campaign.

How would I go about finding someone who would get some inbound links from related sites?

Right now, I'm thinking about hiring one of my "do-it-all" assistants/contractors that do all kinds of mindless/repetitive stuff for my projects. But I'm afraid they'll screw it up by spamming behing my back or would simply not do a good job.

What are the options out there?

Thanks.