Comment Spamming Warning By Google !

I don't think there is such a thing as "build it and they will come" for any serious website. I was specifically pointing out to the poster that natural link building is actually common-place if you have good content/product but every serious business is usually also engaged in some sort of publicity/advertising/joint ventures whether they go about building proactive backlinks or not.

The build it and they will come methodology is utter foolishness. It is illogical and something more akin to being useful in a fairy tale than a serious strategy for internet marketing.

Imagine if you will for a minute if one were to take such a ridiculous notion and apply it in the real world.

A mom and pop business goes up...say a clothing store. How long do you think it would take for such a store to fold up and fail if it used the build it and they will come approach? Not long at all!

In the real world businesses MUST pursue their customers. They must assertively get out and initiate to find and retain customers and to keep bringing them back. They don't sit on their butts and wait around for customers to come to them.

That's utterly foolish in the real world and one would be laughed out of existence for suggesting among experienced marketers that such a passive approach is either useful or that business should be done this way.

Of course these days you never know. There's a lot of foolishness going around LOL.

Yet in the internet world we have somehow come to accept what is truly foolish as the new mantra of how things should be done. A mantra put out by Google.

Utter foolishness.

If a business cannot survive and cannot succeed without making an assertive effort to market itself and publicize itself to potential customers in the real world neither can it truly succeed in the internet world if it does not likewise make a concerted effort to market itself through the means that bring it's web site to the attention of potential visitors. With respect to an organic listing in the Yellow pages of the search engine, backlinks is what earns us a place in that book. Unless we pay for backlinks we must acquire them in some other way. But whatever way we acquire them...they must be acquired. Or we will fail.

I am not one to do just anything for the sake of money. I believe in getting backlinks in a way that does not violate the Google TOS (at least in a way that Google will come down on) and does not violate my conscience. I think it can be done and I am doing it. With honesty and integrity. But we must all be assertive in getting them.

To think that we can just build a site and expect our potential customers (visitors) to eventually find us on their own and that this is the way to internet success is the epitome of foolishness or incredible naive.

Carlos

Right. That barometer is actually an algorithm by the name of 'Hill Top' ( ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/reports/csri/405/hilltop.html) use by Google. From the algo:

"Our algorithm operates on a special index of "expert documents." These are a subset of the pages on the WWW identified as directories of links to non-affiliated sources on specific topics. Results are ranked based on the match between the query and relevant descriptive text for hyperlinks on expert pages pointing to a given result page. "

So, after evaluting the content, they look for 'expert documents' and what are 'expert documents', check the link I mentioned.

Now that's a good response.

If you've been leaving comments in blogs, hoping it will
pump you up with google, you have no idea what type
of company google was and is. They have always devalued
blog comment links. They have even tried to get people to
stop allowing such comments. Came up with a tag all their
own, nofollow, and hoped it would work. Unfortunately,
the nofollow warped into something never intended and
spam comments keep proliferating. Google IMHO has now
really, really just delineated all links in comments. Links for
links sake are not going to help with google. They help with
traffic, but that's a whole other ballgame. If you are spamming,
er...leaving your link in blog comments, just stop. You are
and have been wasting your time.

People here waste their time looking for "dofollow" blogs, even
though it's like hunting for unicorns. They don't exist. People and
this mentality have ruined blog posting.

I have even gone a complete 180. I don't allow comments. Period.
Even the spam-without-spamming-was-still-spamming. I have
instituted site submission directories and forums.

Paul