{"id":275,"date":"2008-08-21T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:07:00","slug":"be-careful-of-link-building-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/be-careful-of-link-building-scams.html","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful of Link Building Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Brantner
\nSEO Content Writer<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have Gmail, you’re probably familiar with the targeted advertisements that are constantly thrown your way every time you check your mail. Admittedly, some of these links are of great interest to me. Recently, there was one advertisement that really piqued my interest. It was an ad promising over 1,000 one way links to your website.<\/p>\n

The ad reeked of spam, and I just had to dig deeper to find out more about it. Essentially, the site said that if you paid around $100 per month, you could get all the free links you want.<\/p>\n

From what I understand, the way it works is everyone submits their website to this directory. Businesses then go through the directory and choose the sites they want inbound links from. To those who don’t know better, this seems like a great way to build backlinks quickly and easily.<\/p>\n

But there are several things wrong with this link exchange system.<\/p>\n