With lots of folks at the SES last week and the SMX this week, it’s pretty quiet with new link building related posts. On the other hand, that does leave room for recaps of the link related SMX sessions and posts from others as well.

While some say that it’s impossible to harm your competitors with spammy links, I’d say that it’s near impossible. Only in some cases, for example with new websites or when your competitor has been naughty himself, I think that it’s possible to do some serious damage. In all other cases, you probably would have to invest a lot of time if you really want to hurt your competitor. And you might want to use that time to promote your own website in stead…

And also:

• Sebastian explains that Nofollow still means don’t follow and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollowed links nevertheless
• Juggler discusses why you should focus on building quality links in stead of just building links
• Neyne adds that you should also focus on letting your link profile look natural
• Mike Volpe compared link building with steroids on HubSpot
• How depending on quality content can actually cost you links was the title of this week’s Link Week
• Joshua Palau made a great post about The schizophrenia of Link building
• Virtical Measures discusses several Link building training programs

3 Comments »

1. Hiya, thanks for including my post in this list. More power to your blog!

   Comment by Jug — February 29, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

2. Hi Wiep,

   Thanks for the inclusion. As the competition and rewards become greater for the top few spots in the SERPs, competitors will become more cut throat. Hopefully it doesn’t get too ugly.

   Comment by Dave Shapiro — February 29, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

3. Jug; you’re welcome, it was a good post!

   Dave; The more frustrated people get that they can’t reach one of those top spots, the more desperate they will get. And desperate people can often in very ugly situations…

   Comment by Wiep — March 2, 2008 @ 8:25 pm

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