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Here's a graph I found explaining the "link wheel" strategy: http://lemonarian.com/images/majorwheel.jpg http://lemonarian.com/images/majorwheel.jpg

• Alex3917 15y ago
  The sad thing is that it's not just spammers who need to do this. Even people who are genuinely creating great content in an attempt to help others still need to create backlinks from social sites if they want to show up in Google. I've made all sorts of resources that are far better than anything else that currently exists, but without actively going out and building a few backlinks these pages would get literally zero hits.
  • ZoFreX 15y ago
    While the core of what you say is true, I think the overall message, in the context of the comments above you, is slightly misleading. Yes, you cannot just create a great website and magically get hits, you do have to tell people it exists! This isn't news, and "SEO" while much maligned these days is still a valid, useful and in many cases necessary skill. However, it is not necessary to engage in blackhat SEO practices and it is far from true to say that you must build spammy backlinks from social networking sites in order to succeed. I don't think you mean that it is, but it came across a little like that.
    • prawn 15y ago
      Amusingly, your HN alias sounds like some sort of pharmaceutical product. ;)