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Please answer a simple answer - YES OR NO?
IS THIS SPAM:
SETUP 100 domains - All unique content
Create a links page for each domain.
GET 100 links from other websites pointing to each domain
Link back to reciprocators from EVERY links page sothat every links page on each domain is IDENTICAL.
This means you will only need to look for links ONCE and use the same infrastructure for each domain.
IS THIS SPAM? I think so - if so then why is no-one being punished? Its not just one or 2 webmasters doing this.
I see it as a major problem! and it gets worse every month?
IS THIS SPAM?
I had a somewhat similar situation occur the other day with a competitor of one of my clients. On the surface, everything looked clean, then I ran a link: check and noticed the competitive site had over 7,000 links back to his site!
Upon closer investigation, I see that he is using a clever (invisible) image map, with links going out to a dozen other sites. The pyramid then all comes back to the competitive site - giving him a PR8!
As one put it in another forum, in the 'old' days, all we had to worry about was keyword optimization, meta tags, etc - now it's a whole new ballgame with the linkbacks.
If Google was a pure PR driven search engine then all this would do is redistribute the PR more evenly between the 100 sites.
Do you think that the number of links matters? If the number of links matters then does this include internal and external links? Maybe anyone can employ this tactic just by generating 500 links pages on their own site (but risk getting banned)?
Imagine if no one had any web etiquette - Googles job would be a lot harder search results would be in a mess.
It just grates me that the few that dont give a hoot are getting major benefits by employing easy spam tactics.
This is definately getting out of hand!
I dont quite think you understand what the example is.
Waht I mean is 500 links pages not on one site but rather
500 Links pages on different sites - differnt domains.
So now I have 500 sites and am ready to go get links.
I send out 500 emails to ANY WEBSITE saying i have five hundred websites. You link to my 500 websites and I will link back to you FROM my 500 websites.
Now all I have to do is maintain ONE links page and upload it to 500 differnt domains.
The result :
Yes it works and its so easy it can be done in under 2 months. I have seen 10 -15 newbies in my industry just this month and they are all doing the exact same thing.(what I have described above).
One or 2 more months and I wont be able to afford being so "MORAL" as I am slowly being eaten alive.
In PR terms, if all the pages were PR4 and they all had 100 links on then they would in total only give the 100th page a PR3 boost (PR4 divided by 100 * dampening factor). Which won't help a page very much.
If the number of external links matters then does this also work for internal links?
Its just a matter of having as many incoming links from other websites with keyword rich hyperlinks.
The outgoing links pages only purpose is so that you can reciprocate to those sites giving you the links.
How you gonna get sites to link to your 500 websites if you dont link back?
One site even has a noindex, nofollow tag and the poor reciprocators are GETTING NOTHING BACK - puh!
poor reciprocators
Ha ha! That's the best laugh I've had all day....
If a webmaster runs many sites and they are relevant to each other with different content and design (legitimate sites) then there should be no problem with linking them together right?
I think by having the 500 links pages be exactly the same you are creating your own link farm between you and anyone who exchanges links ...
If I were going down this path (which to be honest I wouldn't) I would certainly make sure that the links pages have different links
I think the same links on 500 sites all connected should be pretty easy to pick up
Having differnt links on each page would legistimise the tactic - doing it like that is REAL HARD WORK!
Dulpicate links pages is the easy way out and peple are getting away with it
I don't think they have at all. Biggest problem with this idea is that it would be very computationally intensive. This would mean for each link Google would have to compare the content of the linking site to the linked site.
