For those of you wondering why sites like Sphinn, Digg, Reddit and Propeller are always full of spam the answer is below. People seem to have misunderstood the whole concept of social news sites and are paying money for people to spam them.
For $59.95 at http://linkbuilders.com you can get your site submitted (and probably banned) from all the major social bookmarking sites in just 4 business days.
Social bookmarking is all the rage right now and Google absolutely LOVES this stuff. Sure, building one way links only pays off slowly but it really has to be part of your game plan, your long range plan. Yes, you may get immediate traffic from people visiting social bookmarking sites but the real value is the long term deep link roots. We can build one way links to your interior pages, too.
We will build you 100 one way links, bonafide DOFOLLOW (PageRank is passed) links within 4 business days for only $59.95. You will have links to your business on sites
such as slashdot.org, propeller.com, furl.net, bookmarks.yahoo.com, digg.com and many, many more.
Google can stop this quite easily by removing sites like http://linkbuilders.com from their index and stopping the “upcoming” pages on social news sites from passing value. Social sites can stop this by monitoring and auto-moderating the upcoming queue for phrases that are commonly associated with spam but they don’t seem to bother.
Since I’ve not tested services like this I can’t say whether they work or not. Rumour has it that if you do enough you get some value from them but surely Google shouldn’t be that vulnerable to spam, should it?
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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Patrick,
I wonder if Google will at some point give more juice to links on the front page of Digg rather than the spam that only gets dugg by one or two people?
I agree that Google shouldn’t be vulnerable enough to be affected by this sort of thing, but my research has shown that it is.
I also find that Google.co.uk is more vulnerable to spam than Google.com. I see many UK spam sites on the first page of Google that only have a few crappy links but ranking for terms they shouldn’t. Also, in Google.co.uk
I see a lot of sites that use techniques such as hidden keywords, and tags ranking pretty well.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Sorry, I meant:
Also, in Google.co.uk I see a lot of sites that use techniques such as hidden keywords, and noscript tags ranking pretty well.
Wish I could edit comments.
surely Google shouldn’t be that vulnerable to spam, should it?
Hahahah. Good one.
These kind of services if done correctly can be both benifial for instant traffic and for linkbuilding.
The problem is most people that offer this kind of service only submit the homepage of a website and that is why they look like spam.
I used to offer such a service at seobasement.com but i would only submit inner pages using multpile titles and descriptions so that they looked offical and and not spammy.
I stopped for one reason and one reason only and it is something most people that pay for these services do not realise. They only get a followed link if there submissions makes it to the homepage by aquiring enough votes overwise they are only receiving no-follow links.
There are similar link builders for blogs that are being aggressively promoted to build organic SEO….thus we must input letters displayed in random images to ensure we are human.
Shared Social Bookmarking to 75 sites at an affordable cost of 29$ by http://www.submitinme.com with detailed report after completion. And I like their different Social Bookmarking services for beginners and SEO Companies.
hi
thanks for given information about link building its really useful for me
If I Get Inner Page Link of My Site For Social Bookmarking Then Also It’s Spamming….
@Patrick, you said: “I wonder if Google will at some point give more juice to links on the front page of Digg rather than the spam that only gets dugg by one or two people?”
They already do, it’s called an outgoing link from a PR8 site.
2 to 3 Diggs, while not deemed spam is not exactly a positive indicator. I feel it is better to not be submitted than submit something that will not do well. In fact I pulled my social bookmarking links plugin since I don’t want just anyone submitting anything.
@David Hobson good to see you here, I have lost track of my social bookmarking friends so much lately, I have no time to participate.
I do all my stuff my self, subs, votes, comments, and I participate, well at least until the Digg mafia finds me and then I get kicked off Digg again. They hate me over there. But then again we do make fun of Kevin quite a bit on my blog.
Also there is only Digg. There are no other sites that have the traffic and the mafia chasing every marketer off so Google I believe, sees this as the toughest town there is in social bookmarking. Hence, if you do well there (200 to 300 Diggs) it is a great yardstick.
Also Digg is the only one left with a site structure that passes on huge link juice to the parent blog p0st, front page or not. Sphinn is such a good old boys club that I won’t waste my time there any more. I would rather get buried on Digg than post just once to Sphinn. Thanks Danny.
Worse yet, using any of the spammmer pay for Digg sites like the one above will get your domain banned from Digg, then you are screwed. BTW my site and most any other (besides a BabyMan of Saleem blog) will get banned for posting anything critical of Digg or knowledge of how to get more Diggs.
See you on Digg, Just my two cents. – Chris Lang
Some of these services are great. I’ve used them to get most of my competitors banned from Digg. I don’t submit my own site to Digg as the quality of the traffic is atrocious and for this thing I’m not in a niche that will get natural links anyway.
Sick of my competitors spamming digg etc, a quick blast on spammy paid submissions and their url is whacked for good
I know you say you haven’t tested it, but I have and it definitely still works. The likes of Propeller, Gather and others are doing wonders for some of my niche sites (mostly for test purposes)
maybe I should think about that
I know this is kind of self promotion but I want to let you know that there is a system to build a powerful Digg profile in 75% less time than you would spend otherwise. Cheap, fast, straight forward and whitehat. No Digg scripts.
I refuse to participate in any of the Digg rings popping up, I build profiles by Digging, Submitting and participating. Digg rings are just a good way to lose your profile that you have built up over time with hard work.
If you are interested give me a shout from my contact page. If the owner here is gracious enough to okay this post I do not want to go as far as adding a link. Thanks if advance Patrick if you okay this. But you should definitely shout me and chat.
Chris Lang
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Chris feel free to drop any links here.
More comments from Patrick AltoftThanks Patrick, that is awesome.
Here is my step by step guide to how to build a Digg power user profile in 30 days, pull the whole Digg top 100 as mutual friends and only spend 30 minutes twice a day doing it.
I have tested this on four profiles and got the same result everytime. All the top Diggers as mutual friends, 1000 followers, 5,000 Diggs cast, a white hat profile and all without using Grease Monkey type scripts that will get you banned on Digg.
Plus as a bonus I throw in a 90 no strings attached $120 to the most powerful Digg Analytics application there is. (no scripts / bots either)
All for less than the price of lunch.
http://keywebdata.com/seo-tactics.php
If anyone would like to give me feedback on this page please drop me a line via my contact page on the domain or I think it would be great to discuss this here on Patrick’s blog since he was gracious enough to allow me to drop that link.
Cheers Patrick! – Chris Lang
I am using this kind of sites for my blog what can I do I need links ….
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