lostincyberspace
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- Jan 26, 2008
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Re: I do think that a valid use for shadow sites is as backlinks for white hat and recent updates to shadowmaker makes it much more do-able.
OK, over 2 years on and more cautious. In the past we assumed that negative SEO was not possible - but apparently not. While there's technically no reason not to use shadow sites as backlinking for white hat sites, these days I keep the two completely separate. Perhaps I should reword the statement, "I do think that a valid use for shadow sites is as backlinks to disposable landing pages/other cloaked sites". Seriously, there's no good reason to take even a small risk with a quality site.
Changes to shadowMaker means that we now have the option of building entire link wheels/link pyramids in one hit - this is just part of the sophistication I have hinted at in other threads. A single build can be broken into groups of sites and each group can be interlinked with anchor text content links to itself/other groups according to your specification. This should make it a pretty effective link tool but for maximum effect would probably need a wide geo and IP base on which to build the sites.
To date I haven't used it this way - have been happy with GSA until recently but right now, like everyone else, I am rethinking everything!
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