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18 Nasty Ways to Get Backlinks
2007-10-26

A great post I found on assertica.co.uk

Paul posted 18 nasty ways to get backlinks.
Some of them are just plain funny, and I noticed he missed a few of the more recent techniques that have been 'outed', but it's defiinately worth the read:

Also, he has compiled a massive list of the more 'vanilla' ways to gain some backlinks, so check that post on his website assertica.co.uk
 
18 Nasty Ways to Get Backlinks
 
  1. Hijack domains at the registrar level
  2. Refer spam
  3. Comment spam anything that allows comments, not just blogs
  4. Hack sites and insert hidden links in the html
  5. Become a host and cloak links within customer pages
  6. XSS injection
  7. SQL injection
  8. Find exploits in well known scripts
  9. Find demo accounts, default passwords, or unpassworded accounts to a CMS
  10. Bait and switch
    • Eg. frame/proxy a quality site, get links in the ‘white hat way’, then switch to own money making machine that no one wants to link to

     

  11. Buy domain similar to competitors, frame or proxy competitor site, contact places where competitor has backlinks and tell them to link to new url since you are moving domains for X reasons.
  12. Lie – eg. Make out it was you who placed a backlink to a site and request they link to a 3rd site of yours
  13. Redirect domain to high PR site, when PageRank changes start a link exchange frenzy before it disappears
  14. Give away scripts with backdoors or hidden links
  15. Give away templates with hidden links
  16. Join a link exchange program, and cloak the links on your site from search engines
  17. Capture abandoned free hosting
  18. Capture expired domains
If I were to throw one out to the list, I'd also suggest creating wordpress themes and putting something like this in the footer:
 
<?
$bots=array('googlebot', 'yahoo', 'live', 'msn');
$y=0; for($i=0; $i<sizeof ($bots); $i++) if(strstr(strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]), strtolower($bots[$i]))) $y=1;
if($y){
  include('your_links_file.html'); 
}
?>
Try something like gathering some wordpress themes into 'theme packs' with this code in the footer of each, and then redistributing it for free.
 
By the way, I just saw that piece of code on a funny blog post, called Search Engine Marketeers are the Next Script Kiddies.

--Rob



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Comments:
Name: Every Penny Helps
Website: http://everypennyhelps.blogspot.com
Comment:

Interesting tips.  I know PR just got updated and some major sites took major hits, with their PR dropping.  I saw mine go up, even though I've never really attempted any major backlink building.

Do you think this techniques would pass muster with the G-rankers? Or does it not even matter?


Name: Rob
Comment:

I dont really know how to answer your question wtih a straight face, since Im feeling very contentious when it comes to the SE's and their kleptocratic practices.............

 

All I can say is, if you choose to live in fear of Google, that's your perogative.     


Name: Every Penny Helps
Website: http://everypennyhelps.blogspot.com
Comment: I don't choose to live in fear of Google or any such entity.  It was simply a question. No offense intended.
Name: Rob
Comment:

:) And my response wasn't meant to offend either.

  


Name: sunil
Website: http://techcupid.blogspot.com
Comment: Nice list of hacks :)
Name: FunPics
Website: http://www.funpics.ws
Comment: this is just wrong, but cool ;)
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