Now that we’ve covered up Organic Link Building, let’s move on to it’s not-so-evil counterpart which is Artificial Link Building or what some others call Automated Link Building.

Artificial link building isn’t altogether bad but some people exploit automated means to the point of redundantly abusing it until they are regarded as spam. And as such, some of these practices are generally frowned upon by the SEO community at large.

But hey, why go through all the criticism and risk of being penalized if it doesn’t work, right?

Coz it does work.

But that doesn’t mean I’m encouraging you to practice it. In fact, as much as you can, I would advise you to avoid these methods in order for you to give more focus to your organic link building and capitalizing on the conversation in your reader’s minds.

Let me point out that these are just some of the artificial link building methods available out there. There are plenty more and I’m sure many more will be innovated in the years to come. We never run out of loopholes. Not unless Google becomes perfect in scouting the web from spammers and violators – which is unlikely.

Again, let me point out that these practices are valid and helps you increase your rankings. And not all of these practices are harmful – but I personally think that you should focus more on content marketing and organic linkbuilding than these artificial link building methods.

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