Link building

[idreams]

i want to ask a question. i am sure this is kind black hat seo.

look at this web site http://www.199999dollars.com/

if we also create website like this and put a banner as domain for sale and in the footer put back links to our domain ?

thanks

[SimonCullum]

Hi Ravi

As you mention SEO in your question, I am relating my answer to SEO.

Your suspicions are justified, as in there being no SEO value in doing anything like this. It adds absolutely no value to any User's Experience, no SEO value, I personally and professionally regard it as a pointless unethical practice.

If somebody has a domain for sale, then fair enough in putting a sales banner on the homepage, however doing so with the hope of gaining any SEO benefit and including all those links to other spammy domains is a game that can only be lost.

So I'd recommend to Not follow suit and to help keep the Web a better place by avoiding doing the same if SEO benefits are the main goal.

Regards,

Simon

[DougRoberts]

Keep in mind how people stumbling upon sites like this may perceive you site/brand.

For people trying to find a domain for their business these kind of operations are rather annoying and can feel like exploitation!

[idreams]

even i feel the same.

that is so sad that these companies are doing this kind of things to gain popularity.. they are buying more and more domains and just linking to their own root domain.

but when i see opensiteexplorer for this site www.acuista.com/... these are the results

| Page Authority | Domain Authority | Linking Root Domains | Total Links | Facebook Shares | Facebook Likes | Tweets | Google +1 |
| 64/100 | 57/100 | 773 | 35,637 | 68 | 11 | 22       6 | |

most of their links coming from this domain http://www.comprarportatiles.com/ which is their own website and when ever the user adds a product to the cart and proceed to check out it will be redirected and add the same product to the cart of acuista.com

the second method above mentioned also treated as spam ?

thanks

[idreams]

actually these kind of domains dont have any value and no one want them too..

Linking Root Domain -	Domain Authority	Linking Root Domains

| *.1999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.199dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.20999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.21999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.23999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.249999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.249999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.24999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.24999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.299999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.29999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.29999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.2999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.349999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.399999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.39999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.3999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.3999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.399dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.399euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.499999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.499999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.49999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.4999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.4999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.499euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.500000dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.599999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.59999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.5999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.599dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.599euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.699999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.69999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.6999dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.6999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.699dollars.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.699euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |
| *.799999euros.com/ | 31 | 504 |

that is great how these $hitty domains got 31 domain authority..

[SimonCullum]

Exactly, I agree with you, is a shame that this goes on, probably always will !

Those figures from OSE will be correct at face value, however won't take into account any search engine penalty that could be applied and indeed, should & likely will be applied at some point. Unethical spammy practices such as this can have high scores such as you've identified here, doesn't mean what has gone on is sustainable though.

Which leads on to your question; Yes, what they've done (based on your findings) is the creation of a link farm, with many of their own domains with poor quality websites/landing pages all linking to one another. It's a great example of what not to do for anybody with any ethical search ethics.

So don't worry about it, just concentrate on creating your own valuable site that adds some value to your visitors' experience.

[DougRoberts]

Of course the OSE domain authority isn't going to be truly representative for a domain like this. I don't think search engines would treat it so generously (it's only got a toolbar pagerank of 1)