Link spamming

[thenabster]

I was wondering what qualifies as link spamming? I mean what technique does someone employ before google thinks it's link spamming. Apparently writing comments on blogs with anchor links to your website is good seo, but is it spamming?

[convergent]

I was wondering what qualifies as link spamming? I mean what technique does someone employ before google thinks it's link spamming. Apparently writing comments on blogs with anchor links to your website is good seo, but is it spamming?

Yes, if you put a lot of links in not thematic niche, or thematic but too many links.
There is a great number of parametres that matter

one of the most fluent is the backlinks growth rate - it should be continious and smooth. Or you should make informational reason to get a pick growth...

[srishtimehta]

If we do black hat SEO then we definitely get spam. When we comment on blogs then firstly we have to take care about their privacy policy, terms and conditions etc. If we follow their rules then we cant get spam.

[frankdevine]

Spamdexing, coined from spam and index, is the practice of including information in a Web page that causes search engines to index it in some way that produces results that satisfy the spamdexer but usually dissatisify the search engine providers and users. When the extraneous information appears in a page's meta tags, it is called "overstuffing".

Some examples of spamdexing and overstuffing:

Including a key word dozens or even hundreds of times on a Web page so that a search engine will weigh the relevance of this page to the subject word more heavily than pages on other Web sites. The subject words are usually placed at the very end of the page out of the reader's way or can even be made invisible to the reader (but readable by the search indexing program).

Including one or more subject words that are totally unrelated to the subject of the Web site for the purpose of getting people to visit the site. In a typical example, the word "sеx" might be listed as a key word (or spamdexed at the bottom of the page) on a site that really sells books on "highly effective sales techniques."

Punishing someone by including their name as a key word on a site with which they have no connection or even a contentious connection.
Trying to capture a competitor's traffic by listing their name or trademarks in the meta tags (this is often a violation of copyright law).

[webcreations]

Link spam (also called blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards. Any web application that displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors or the referring URLs of web visitors may be a target. Adding links that point to the spammer's web site increases the page rankings for the site in the search engine Google . An increased page rank means the spammer's commercial site would be listed ahead of other sites for certain Google searches, increasing the number of potential visitors and paying customers2.

[stephenj141]

Yeah maybe it's link spamming because you put lots of keywords in you submission. Search engine thinks in simple way that your any content should be look natural not forcefully written with keyword stuff.

[raveenasen]

Link spam is any attempt to send your website links (Often with highly keyword loaded anchor text) that are not relevant to the subject matter of a page, or are placed in-appropriately within unrelated subject matter. It also applies to the excessive linking, or cross linking from social networking websites, blogs or splogs to the target website for the sole purpose of artificially inflate page rank or link popularity.

Online reputation management

[maryp]

Link spamming means those links which are built automatically, those links which are on spam sites, where there are lots of adult content, viаgra promotion etc. links are already there.

Link spamming means those sites which are created for the purpose of linking only (link farm).

Link spamming means those blog comments which are automated approved and there are thousands of comments links in blog comment and other places...

[jessicarobin]

Spamming implies creating a situation where you are exploiting a vulnerability to induce an unfair favorable result for yourself, thus adding the link part to link spamming is exploiting Search engines vulnerability to links as a quality ratified by inducing an unfair favorable result for yourself.

[Derickalex]

Links created using automated backlink creation websites, More number of links within short period, keyword stuffed description, using same description for all backlinks etc............. These are all spamming techniques