Is this Black Hat?

Hi,

I were advised by a buddy to try building several alias blogs on WP, HUB, Blogger and Squidoo and link those so the main and subpages of my main site. And then again build 1 to 3 tiers of 3-5 blogs each to support each of the blogs that link to the main site.. Of course with aliases. But To me that sounds like Black hat although he claims that it is not...

And I really don´t see the difference between having multiple levels of alias blogs supporting blogs the link directly to the main site and ezine articles when you have services that will submit your articles to numerous blogs that will link back anyway.. seems to me as it would have the same effect although you save a lot of time on aliases and blog building... Or.. am i missing something here?

I don't think this is as much Blackhat as it is a waste of time.

You are trying to build manipulative links which is deemed blackhat by google.

That being said, the majority of people here build links to there sites.

There is no risk in what you want to do, but what your doing will not necessarily rank you in the serps.

Your essentially building low level links and then linking them low level links together, absolutely worthless in my opinion.

"You are trying to manipulate Google which is deemed blackhat."

By that definition ALL SEO is blackhat... LOL


I would say "gray" for sure. You will find plenty of people here who say you should NOT do that - but probably just as many who would say you SHOULD do it (or are probably doing it themselves).

Sorry - No clear answer on that one... Will it work? You will also get mixed opinions on that... If they are all on segregated IP's, they will probably not be caught by any filter. But I agree with above, these links will carry very little weight due to their new age. And if you build them all at the same time, also not a good signal...

There are certainly faster ways to do link-building than this (and probably better). But not black hat in my book.

I reserve black hat for things like cloaking, doorway pages, viruses, our outright deceptive practices. None of those apply to what you've said in my opinion... But again, there are certainly faster ways to rank than this.

I don't think you can consider it to be blackhat SEO. I think that term applies more to the technique of cloaking, spamming ... and so on and so forth. The really illegitimate ways to get on top of the SERPs, so to speak.

But yeah, I do think it's a waste of time. You see, blogs are really good for adding content to a website that is more or less static. A blog invites Google to come over and crawl your site more often. That is, if you update it enough. Most people tend to say that three times per week is ideal and I tend to agree with that

If it was that simple and google was that dumb, wouldnt everyone just give up the day job and sign up thousands of times with blogger and wordpress to promote our sites.

Dont think its black, grey or white. I would put more effort into your main site creating content that will draw links naturally.

The reason Google values quality backlinking is they are trying to index the most valuable pages and get them easily accesable to their searchers. If any of these easy linking ideas really worked everyone would do it. It's best to stick with the proper and valuable way of getting real quality backlinks.

I'm not that sure that it is a black hat seo, but I would suggest you to build quality back links in future. In search engine optimization (SEO) terminology, a quality backlink is a backlink that links to your Web site using your keywords or keyword phrase, and also appears on a trusted Web site that has the same theme or similar content topic as your own Web site. I think this is what you have to consider for link building.

As other have said, it's not really 'black hat'.
And, as others have said... it is definitely a waste of time and content.

The reason is because those links you're creating to yourself will not have any real value to pass until that content itself has a few quality links pointing to it. If the content you authored for those blogs/remote pages are worthy of links.... well wouldn't you want that content and those links pointed right at your target site? Why would you want to dilute/reduce their value passing them through a junk site first?

What many do is create multiple junk crash-and-burn sites and go black on those and link back to their primary site. Pass a bit of ill gotten value while the latest tricks work, then on to the next trick. The idea is that the target site isn't directly a part of the black hat techniques so it's hopefully isolated/safe from any negative results. This, imho, is a very dangerous game to play. I know that's not what you're suggesting be done, but it's so closely related that I felt it was worth mentioning.

It's not what you are doing, it's how you are doing it. If you write original / usable content for each of all the blogs / supporting pages, I see no problem in that as each of them is of legal and decent standing of their own. How you link across them is your own business, but do make sure you link sensibly with no gimmicks of cheating visitors one thing for another.