Many #contextual link building #techniques that were once touted as the end-all solution to maintaining high SEO rankings have now been blacklisted by Google’s #algorithms and can cause hefty penalties.
purbatandjung.contently.com These techniques are intended to “game the system” of SEO and focus on the quantity of links going back to your site while throwing quality out the window. Not only do these not provide anything of useful substance to your users,
knowledge.autodesk.com/community/arti… they can actually make your site look less credible and clog up the internet with shallow references to your site that might have no relevance at all.
For example, they might utilize spam-like tactics such as posting comments on other websites
For example, they might utilize spam-like tactics such as posting comments on other websites
discogs.com/user/mikenew121 that will link to your website, making edits to Wikipedia to link back to your pages, or creating “link farms,” which are websites created solely for the purpose of hosting links to other websites.
jeans-12.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-mi… Google’s ranking algorithm used to count pages with more links as automatically more valuable. However, Google has since developed extensive updates, such as Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird to not only reverse this but to actually offset it.
turnkeylinux.org/user/1612814 If your website used these techniques in the past or paid someone else to increase SEO who may have, you may be penalized by Google. These link building strategies are referred to in SEO as “black hat” methods because they are not legitimate
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