Project idea for automated link building

[codePerformance]

As we all know, the primary problem and limiting factor for our industry is traffic.
In the past 20 years I saw an increasing monopolization of traffic while the possibilities to get traffic via SEO, Email-Marketing, Social-Media are going down as well due more and more (community) guideline enforcing.
All in all it's a very serious development which makes the silicon valley scumbags richer while the rest of the world gets poorer.

Then I remembered myself of the early days of the internet while every website has a "Links"-Section where other websites of the same niche was linked to. This simple practice gave every participant a fair share of targeted visitors independent from a third party. Unfortunately, these lists had to be maintained manually and it could take a while till a webmaster adds, deletes or updates a link.

What if a web-project serves that particular purpose? It creates a niche relevant list (up to 5 links) for every website. These links a getting updated after a certain time, when a better matching website was found. All links will have the rel="nofollow" attribute to NOT interfere your SEO-rankings.
To embed the list into your website, javascript with .htaccess server invocation would be used (to prevent ad-blockers). The more prominent the list is placed like header, side-bar, footer (detectable via javascript) the more views take place which increases the chances of better and more views on other websites. But this is only a secondary factor, the primary factor is the niche relevancy.

The aim here is not to improve the SERPs of the websites, but to create an alternative traffic route to your website. SERPs are overrated anyway due search engines cannot scale due only the top 5 results get all the traffic while the rest gets nothing. With this approach, the number of link spots scales according to the number of websites.

What's your opinion?

 

[MF Group]

What do you mean by alternative traffic route? I'm not clear.

 

[codePerformance]

What do you mean by alternative traffic route? I'm not clear.

An alternative way to receive new targeted visitors, beside the search engine world.

 

[MF Group]

An alternative way to receive new targeted visitors, beside the search engine world.

It can be different social media if I'm right.

 

[codePerformance]

It can be different social media if I'm right.

As long as your social media accounts not get banned for spamming (that's what i meant with community guidelines), you're fine. Nevertheless you need to make them popular first as well.

 

[MF Group]

You are right. What's your suggestion in this matter?

 

[mithbooks]

There are a few websites that provide link submission. But what you are saying is to have niche specific websites link to our websites within the same niches. How are you going to persuade them to do the same?

If there is someone better than you, they wont let your link on their website.

 

[codePerformance]

There are a few websites that provide link submission. But what you are saying is to have niche specific websites link to our websites within the same niches. How are you going to persuade them to do the same?

If there is someone better than you, they wont let your link on their website.

It is a niche specific link exchange. So every participant will get links from weaker and stronger websites. SERP-wise it doesn't matter as all links have the rel="nofollow" attribute.

 

[mithbooks]

But how have you thought of promoting this tool or service? Using Google and social ads? Link building happens eventually when you have good content on your website. I like your idea, but I don't know if this is something that people will dive into

 

[codePerformance]

But how have you thought of promoting this tool or service? Using Google and social ads? Link building happens eventually when you have good content on your website. I like your idea, but I don't know if this is something that people will dive into

That's the reason why I have opened this thread. Such a network works only if as many webmasters as possible come together, otherwise it will be a stillbirth like all other web-projects these days.

But the time is right in my opinion. As everyone already tried to get ahead in the SEs and SMs for the past 10 years (or even longer) while the effect of this kind of work diminished year after year. Here at BlackHatworld we still have a decent userbase with capable webmasters. If just 10 of them would join, this would give a lot of data to work with.

 

[mithbooks]

Are you going to develop this tool yourself?

 

[codePerformance]

Are you going to develop this tool yourself?

Yeah I could, web and datamining development is one of my main focuses in my work. Some years back I own an online advertising-project which served the adds according to the niche of the certain pages. So there would be nothing new to me technology-wise. But if there is no interest from other parties, I will not waste my time.

 

[NeedMyLink]

I think automating niche-relevant link exchanges could help build a small, but consistent traffic flow, especially for websites that struggle with organic rankings. While niche relevancy might ensure better targeting, I wonder how much trust users would place in automated link lists. You'd need solid curation to avoid irrelevant or low-quality links sneaking in.

 

[codePerformance]

I think automating niche-relevant link exchanges could help build a small, but consistent traffic flow, especially for websites that struggle with organic rankings. While niche relevancy might ensure better targeting, I wonder how much trust users would place in automated link lists. You'd need solid curation to avoid irrelevant or low-quality links sneaking in.

This is pretty easy to ensure. Similar like traffic trading-scripts (who were very popular during early 2000s in the adult niche) the service would track the click behavior of every user who comes from another website of the exchange. When the same IP (user) surfs around multiple times, it's a happy user which would increase the score of the website who is serving him. When no following clicks take place it's a bounce and the website is bad or is offering him other stuff then he intended to see (cloaking, redirects etc.).

Sure they are countless bots out there and many of them are using private IPs (by hijacked routers) and render websites with realistic mouse cursor movements, so it's impossible to filter them out. But there is a pretty simple solution as well, it's just using a long IP-block period. When a user clicks on a link, his IP is assigned for 72 hours (or more) to that particular destination website. So that IP can not be used for another website again for 72 hours. This will give every bot just 1 opportunity to interfere the system every 72 hours. This would catch all regular users as well, but this would just push down the visitors for all webmasters, while the value of the website scores stays the same as everybody would experience "lower" traffic. Remember bots visit countless websites permanently so their IPs are much more often tracked (and blocked), regular customers on the other hand have very limited interests at the same time (mostly just 1), so their IP-block would be insignificant for the computations.

 

[codePerformance]

Bump, more comments please.

 

[kshatriya]

This is pretty easy to ensure. Similar like traffic trading-scripts (who were very popular during early 2000s in the adult niche) the service would track the click behavior of every user who comes from another website of the exchange. When the same IP (user) surfs around multiple times, it's a happy user which would increase the score of the website who is serving him. When no following clicks take place it's a bounce and the website is bad or is offering him other stuff then he intended to see (cloaking, redirects etc.).

Sure they are countless bots out there and many of them are using private IPs (by hijacked routers) and render websites with realistic mouse cursor movements, so it's impossible to filter them out. But there is a pretty simple solution as well, it's just using a long IP-block period. When a user clicks on a link, his IP is assigned for 72 hours (or more) to that particular destination website. So that IP can not be used for another website again for 72 hours. This will give every bot just 1 opportunity to interfere the system every 72 hours. This would catch all regular users as well, but this would just push down the visitors for all webmasters, while the value of the website scores stays the same as everybody would experience "lower" traffic. Remember bots visit countless websites permanently so their IPs are much more often tracked (and blocked), regular customers on the other hand have very limited interests at the same time (mostly just 1), so their IP-block would be insignificant for the computations.

This is very interesting, this would certainly work well for a number of niches, is this up yet?

 

[proxygo]

This is very interesting, this would certainly work well for a number of niches, is this up yet?

they aint been back in 3 months so who knows