Would you consider this black hat / unethical?
- SEO |
My company is trying to build links into the official city of Pittsburgh's website to get it to rank #1 for the Google search "The Best City in the World". I thought this was a fun and creative idea to use to show some love for the city I grew up and operate my business in. however, a few other SEO companies claim since I am building links to the city this could be considered a black hat tactic. My response was "How else can you effect rankings with no access to a site - pray?". Of course none of them respond to any of my questions but it seems funny that SEO companies are saying any type of link building is black hat regardless of how it's obtained.
Note: We are not using any SPAM methods but are reaching out to the community (blogs, forums, etc..) to get them to write why they think Pittsburgh's the best city and link to the official site using the anchor text "The Best City in The World".
Here is the press release we sent out:
Web Marketing Firm to Raise Pittsburgh's International Online Image
I am very interested to see what you all think about this!
*melanie
*melanie
I don't have anything to offer, but have a great day anyway!