[Oaklandhomespecialist]

Does anyone have any info about using linksmanager? Can you get banned for it? I read in "SEO for Dummies" that the owners of have been in contact with Google and Google recognizes the methods used by Linksmanager as being ethical. The homepage of linksmanager says something similiar.

[Falcon Living]

Linkmanager can kiss (you know the rest) .... I get at least 20 emails a week (three four at a time), when I do I go to google spam report. I dont care if it counts or not. It is ridiculous.

[Oaklandhomespecialist]

Originally Posted by Falcon Living

Linkmanager can kiss (you know the rest) .... I get at least 20 emails a week (three four at a time), when I do I go to google spam report. I dont care if it counts or not. It is ridiculous.

Is there any other software you would recommend to help get links easier?

[webmaster]

Nope - why? Because if you aren't taking the time to build personal relationships (including link relatioships) then you are not placing enough emphasis on the quality of your links, and the lack of effort will show

Link development is not a sprint, it is a marathon, quality over quantity, try to build a referral relationship, guest authorship article , blog post, forum post, etc etc one of each per month, put the effort into the quality of your blog posts, article submissions etc, and they will end up being a hell of a lot more than one link as people reference you and your site due to the quality and effort in your offerings.

[mibut]

Linkmanager can kiss (you know the rest) .... I get at least 20 emails a week (three four at a time), when I do I go to google spam report.

Don't understand why you report them to Google, care to explain.

[Falcon Living]

Because a link manager program that sends me emails to link exchange with my condos, lofts, real estate, mortgage and relocation pages in five different emails in five minutes are link spammers that google explicitly warns against in webmaster quality guidelines.

[mibut]

I get sick of emails as well but the Google webmaster quality guidelines refer to websites NOT SPAM EMAILS

[Falcon Living]

well again, since I am so evil, below are quotations from the webmaster guidelines, that also fit me

*Don't send automated queries to Google. (probably will be sent to google too)

*Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links (since link queries are automated, most probably, people with bad neighborhoods are also receiving them) and you are linking to bad neighborhoods, and me by linking to you, I am also involved).

*Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
(that one is also Morgan's point)

*If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at http://www. google.com/contact/spamreport.html. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

Good enough?

[mibut]

Mert, I was just trying to point out to you that you are wasting your time reporting spam emails to Google, they are not interested in spam emails, they are interested in removing spam websites from the serps.

[Falcon Living]

Well, it is more like an FYI, and that is what google needs. I just want google to pay attention to patterns not get a site banned.