tiered

Recently I started tiered backlinking and now I'm a little confused. I have sites where I can simply put all my Tier 1 links witing a minute in the comment section(comments with HTML enabled). I gathered just the d0f0llow Tier 1 links and put them on maybe 100 sites together and now I'm thinking...

I've been working with a client who got utterly destroyed by the penguin update, and thanks to an astonishing number of crappy directory links dropped off the radar entirely (was on first page). It has taken me eight months to get this site back to page five using white(ish) hat methods but now...