Great post by Aaron “Money for Nothing and Your Clicks for Free” about why there’s no free link lunch, and even if there is, you’re better off not eating it, because it’s poisoned.
He makes great sense:
* most sites that are marketed in that “all I can get for free that is easy” manner are low quality sites
* many people market sites in that manner and leave obvious trails of where they have been
* search engines probably notice some of those patterns ;) … you are the company you keep. Sometimes less is more.
I’m a member of several Internet discussion groups, and the “free” thing is out of hand. Auto-blogging (build THOUSANDS of blogs on your site in minutes), auto-content (build THOUSANDS of pages in minutes), auto, auto, auto –!
If you’re building a business, and not a scam, do you really want to be associated with scammy sites you’ve build “automatically” a year or two down the track? Even if you don’t care, how long do you think these scams will last? They don’t build anything, much less a business.
Here’s the thing: a scam and a non-scam site or blog take about the same time (months in some cases) to be indexed in Google. Until a site’s indexed, you won’t get traffic.
Hence, the link-hunt. But running around looking for free links is a mug’s game because the people willing to give you those links don’t have quality links to share. PAY for your links, by using PPC or other kinds of advertising. Of course, advertising your auto-site is problematic: which auto-site, when you’ve got thousands of them? :-)
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