I have a total dislike for sploggers and spammers. Now I had an interesting visit today from a lady with a pretty nice blog if you took the time to find it from the sales page that she wanted a backlink to. In general I have no problem with sales pages, I have a few out there myself at times.

But I have an objection to my bandwidth and blog being used as an advertising forum. I link back with no follow links to those who comment regularly. Every time I set up a site for someone, I use the same plugins I do on my own site to share that link love.

Starting with Lucias Linky Love that allows me to set an arbitrary amount of comments before they become followed links. But here is the thing, I guard my link love very jealously. I will not link to bad sites, I will not link to sales pages and most of all I will not link to splogs.

In fact I think the worst is splogs, They are even worse than those stupid russian pornographers that don’t get beyond aksimet. They seem to think that if they post there links to wankme.ru on every post I will eventually allow them. Well here’s the thing Aksimet puts you straight in the bin.

Sploggers however not only steal your content, they get you to link back to them via your pingback. It behooves you to check who is giving you pingbacks. Check out their blog or site and make sure that you are not assisting an Ed Dale 30 day challenge graduate to rank better than you for your own work.

Telling the difference between a splog and a blog is fairly simple. A splog will have your content, a link back and no added conversation. A blogger may have quoted some of your info in order to prove a point in their own argument.

Rest assured that any comment that has a link on it, will be visited by me before I will allow you a link. Once I know you, I am less strict about some things. But becoming a regular contributor on this blog does get you the link love you desire.

Yesterday we talked about backlinks from forums. Today I want to tell you how to get backlinks by blogging. There are many free blogging sites on the web. Today I want to talk to you about Tumblr.com Tumblr is a micro blogging site. You can use Tumblr as a full blog but I would not do that. Tumblr do not like spammers be warned. If they deem you to be a spammer they will delete first and ask questions later.

MicroBlogging vs Blogging

Micro blogs are blogs that basically are used to do quick short articles. I use Tumblr because it gives me the advantage of a Tumblr this toolbar. When I find something interesting about my chosen field I tumbl it. I copy a section that really grabs me and I post it to Tumblr. I post random stuff from other peoples blogs and websites to my Tumblr and they get backlinks from my efforts.

Share the backlink love

I also use Tumblr to write articles that point back to my website. The reason I add other peoples stuff to my Tumblr is for two reasons. I share the love and my Tumblr does not look like it is purely to promote myself. My tumblr site will get good traffic from people interested in the subject because I am adding regular good content, yet they will see my links back to my site and best of all Google likes Tumblr and I have seen Tumblr Site ranking higher than the site they promote.

More Blogging sites

Mweb is a smallish blogging community, They have a lot of sparkly brain dead bloggers with a few worth reading. Blogging here allows you to add backlinks to your blogs but expect complaints if your blog is purely commercial. If you blog here keep copies of all your posts. You have been warned.

24Blogs is another small community, Staying under the radar is easier here than most as most pages don’t stay on the front page for extended periods. If you blog here keep copies of all your posts. You have been warned. These guys are owned by the same people that own MWEB.

WordPress Do what you want here, I have not yet heard of anyone being banned or having their blogs deleted for commercial activity.

Blogger Googles blogspace, I have seen some pretty offensive blogs and know that they don’t often get censured.

Hubpages differs from the traditional blog in many respects. A Hub page is more like a wikipedia entry. You have a number of categories that you need to add content to and each hubpage is a stand alone information pack about the chosen subject.

Squidoo like hub pages is not a traditional blog site. Each lense is a stand alone info pack about the chosen subject.

If you know of more like this please add them to the comments.

Guy McLaren is an SEO and webdesign fundi. He has been doing this since 1996. If you need help with your website visit his website about Search Engine optimisation here.