Ethical Linking

Building high PR links to your website has become a very popular SEO link building technique. While it seems that the major search engines reward this technique with better rankings and more website traffic there are a couple of other activities to consider before diving into this technique full force.

Is It Ethical?

So it isn't illegal to build inbound links from other websites but in some instances the ethics are a bit cloudy. Leaving comments on forums and blogs (as long as you offer value) seems a reputable way of getting a high PR back link.

There are a number of services that provide either a list of websites where one can sneak in and put a link in your user profile. You can also purchase software to automate the entire process or of course simply pay someone to build the links for you.

The problem with the latter link development methods is that a lot of the websites utilized particularly prohibited utilizing that method to market your website. By positioning your commercial links you are breaking the service terms.

And you're simply not putting any benefit to the website, in essence it's rather similar to email spam. You're inconveniencing another individual for your personal gain.

With so many methods for getting links from content articles, advertisements, weblogs and community forums in a mutually beneficial manner it's easy enough to stop such a questionable practice.

For those who have been playing around with spamming your link to profile websites in that case beware the wrath of some web owners.

Over a handful of profile websites are battling back and the tool of choice is via malware. Numerous websites at the moment are tracking automated submissions or submissions from the same PC and ultizing a virus attack to cause serious harm to your hard drive.

Some link building service have completely lost all their data.

Is this truthful? Or legal? Well that is a good question, for the site owner it probably does seem acceptable because they have to deal with tens of thousands of spam entries which take up their means and energy.

You may then try to hide via solutions just like web proxy servers however at that point you are making a very conscious decision to attempt to scam these websites.