Comments on: Volume Based Link Building Is A Huge Trap

By: How To Let Spammers Do Your Link Building On Autopilot

How To Let Spammers Do Your Link Building On Autopilot — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:38 +0000

[...] said and done , i would like to advice you to not run after volume based link building as Nick explains [...]

By: Booker Janikowski

Booker Janikowski — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:21:50 +0000

You actually make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be actually something that I think I would never understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of it!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:17:32 +0000

Thanks for reading Dave!

Exactly! SEO education for our clients is essential! That is why I have this SEO blog and newsletter!

Thanks again for reading!
Nick

By: Dave Abernethy

Dave Abernethy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:36:42 +0000

We find clients with that dangerous thing – a little knowledge – are liable to put quantity over quality and of course want instant results too. Easy really, isn’t it! ……..

We do try our best to educate them past this stage and articles (and sites) like yours are very helpful in this. Keep it going!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:27:00 +0000

Hi Geobak,
Great points and I agree at the end of the day, great link building should be about building authoritative links…

Thanks & Take Care,
Nick

By: geobak

geobak — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:23:05 +0000

First of all i guess you are referring to content websites. E-commerce websites need a completely different approach for example. You can’t have fresh everyday quality content for such a website unless you have a supplemental blog to it.

Content is the king but links are the queen…

Of course quality is preferred over quantity…

I’ve seen sites with 5x less backlinks than others ranking far better because of authority backlinks…

Nice post. Thanks for sharing….

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:22:35 +0000

Thanks MicroSourcing for reading and your comment!

This so true, the mass submission type of volume linking can also be blog comments and directory links (aka link farms).

Thanks again!
Nick

By: MicroSourcing

MicroSourcing — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:37:18 +0000

A lot of sites that lose their rankings usually have links that can be traced to Link Farms that get them links to forums or blogs that aren’t relevant, or have nothing to do with their niche market. That’s why mass linking can do more harm than good, plus you throw money on those links with little to no ROI.