Are You A Link Whore?

June 15th, 2006 by John Herman, under internet marketing, marketing. No Comments

Eric Ward on the Marketing Prof blog continues our “Don’t Feed the Google” discussion.

I received an RFP from a company that ought to know better that wanted to know how much I’d charge…

…to get their site 500 one-way Pagerank 2 or better links. Another company wanted to know how long it would take me to seed 1,000 blogs with a link to their site in the blog comment field. And another wanted to know how many links I could buy for their site for $25,000.

What am I, a link whore? For the right price you think I’ll engage in sleazy link building tactics normally only used by gambling or viagra sites?

Nope. And it’s not because I think I occupy some sort of high moral ground. It’s because these tactics make the Web experience worse and simply don’t work. And the sooner everyone stops being link whores, the better, in my opinion.

Quit trying to fool Google already. They have enough problems with the Adsense spam that’s the Web equivalent of Kudzu. It’s everywhere. Combine blog spam with Adsense spam… and you have one majorly unfufilling search experience.

Read his full blog posting for “How to find out if you are a link whore.”