Comments on: Link Building Strategies: Blackhat Edition

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:05:47 +0000

Interesting information. I have to agree, many websites out there are not succeeding because they are being beat by people buying links. Although, hard work does pay off and doing things ethically will win in the long run.

By: Kashif

Kashif — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:03:15 +0000

Hey like already said my Arnie, this black hat is black mailing but not at all a bad idea to tease some of your competitors and if lucky enough then can even get quality links from them :D

By: Menno

Menno — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:01:50 +0000

Wiep, you are hitting the nail on tje head. It seems so easy to corner your competitors, but i am afraid this will always end up in a dirty fight. But the suggestion is right.

By: Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:03:28 +0000

What better way to gain new business than to have your competitors advertise for you? Great work!

By: Link Building Blog

Link Building Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:01:27 +0000

Great post Wiep! I’ve had a couple competitors be totally fine linking back after a client has linked to them. We didn’t send an email, rather it sparked them to contact us…although I can see this method back firing like you said.

By: Wiep

Wiep — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:37:07 +0000

Dave; like I said there’s no guarantee that such a strategy won’t backfire :)

Arnie; Thanks, and yeah, perhaps ‘blackmail edition’ would’ve been a better choice ;)

By: Arnie

Arnie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:25:07 +0000

Wiep – first love how your site is coming along – nice job. Second, maybe you should have called this the “blackmail edition” :-)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:28:15 +0000

If your competitors are using “dark forces” to get on the top you can bet they will try something to put your site even deeper in the SERPS when sending a mail like that :o

Dave

By: neil

neil — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:16:25 +0000

good article, its hard to compete with paid links sometimes