Hey WF minions,
If you want to read 21st century propoganda that your grandchildren will be making jokes about us over, check this crap out:
layboy_sml:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
It's a new 32-page document to let new webmasters know how we should be promoting our sites...:angel:
The entire extent of their approved off-site tactics to "improve your sites' reputation" is on page 28:
They only mention:
I mean I know that they can't come out and say "Light forum spam is ok but Don't use xrumer" but come on, at least give the poor newbs out there a fighting chance to get a backlink or two! :disgust:
If you want to read 21st century propoganda that your grandchildren will be making jokes about us over, check this crap out:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
It's a new 32-page document to let new webmasters know how we should be promoting our sites...:angel:
The entire extent of their approved off-site tactics to "improve your sites' reputation" is on page 28:
About increasing backlinks with an intention to increase the value of the site:
"While most of the links to your site will be gained gradually, as people
discover your content through search or other ways and link to it,
Google understands that you'd like to let others know about the hard
work you've put into your content. Effectively promoting your new
content will lead to faster discovery by those who are interested
in the same subject (1). As with most points covered in this
document, taking these recommendations to an extreme could
actually harm the reputation of your site."
They only mention:
- A blog post on your own site
- offline promotion
- promoting your local business by adding it to google places
- use social media to promote the "Big Interesting items" on your site only
- A selected few link swap requests in your immediate niche
- And of course, use webmaster tools to feed them all your sitemaps.
I mean I know that they can't come out and say "Light forum spam is ok but Don't use xrumer" but come on, at least give the poor newbs out there a fighting chance to get a backlink or two! :disgust: