InLinks.com Launches

November 23, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

MediaWhiz, the company that polluted half of the web with spam by promoting TextLinkAds.com has clearly not learned their lesson. Google declared war on paid links and penalized all websites that were buying or selling them to cheat their way to the top of the search engines. Thousands of websites who were selling ads through TextLinkAds were penalized, many of whom had lost tons of traffic and had months worth of problems because of the incident.

Well, after Google finally took care of the TextLinkAds problem, MediaWhiz wants to polute the web again by starting up another company that tries to sell website owners a “get rich quick” scheme. They are telling freelance writers and bloggers that you can just join a company called InLinks.com and setup a plugin and get paid every month when an advertiser buys a word inside the text of your post. The problem is that this is the exact same thing as a paid link, and now every writer/blogger who signs up for this risks getting penalized and losing all of their rankings for a few quick bucks.

I would recommend staying far away from InLinks.com and just keep focusing on link building strategies that work.

Comments

9 Comments on InLinks.com Launches

  1. TheAnand on Sun, 23rd Nov 2008 6:08 pm

    2. I think it will be difficult for google to penalize inlinks if they do not leave any prints as they for TLA….also, how different is this from contextual ads with dofollow? :)

  2. BusinessX on Sun, 23rd Nov 2008 11:46 pm

    3. I cannot imagine paying for links for rankings being cost effective. There are plenty of ways to develop links without paying, and also appearing more organic (because they are).

  3. Busby SEO Test on Mon, 24th Nov 2008 4:08 pm

    4. Yeah, google will be difficult to compare which one is natural and paid link. Yeah, it’s rock, and I will use this service

  4. International link building on Mon, 24th Nov 2008 8:22 pm

    5. Buying and selling links is getting more and more sophisticated. A link buying company presented their services to me the other day that spoke about white hat link buying. (if there is such a thing)

  5. Wedding Favors Ideas on Wed, 26th Nov 2008 7:07 pm

    6. I think inlinks has genius system. The way they created, insert link among post article is amazing way.
    After techcrunch announced, i registered.
    :D

  6. Ari Lestariono on Wed, 26th Nov 2008 8:32 pm

    7. Should have learn their lessons, anyway does that mean most paid link use spam to promote their products?

  7. Selif on Wed, 14th Jan 2009 11:40 am

    8. Buying a word inside a post? If ‘G’ is going to start going after that practice then I guess intellitext, kontera and others that use this method are all going to get “google spanked” along with every site using them eh?

    I think that’ll be interesting to see what Google does when some of the larger players start screaming bloody murder about it.

  8. Ari Lestariono on Wed, 14th Jan 2009 9:04 pm

    9. I just want to share that my inbound links were increased rapidly, after getting thousands of visitor from stumbleupon which doesn’t stay there forever…I try another way by making quality comments to blogs that has do-follow and having PR3 above, please guys try it, hopefully it could work for you.Cheers

    dnscoop.com is a site to check your site, you can use it to check yours, and let me know what do you think.Good luck

  9. Shelley Lockwood on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 11:42 pm

    10. You said it! “I would recommend staying far away from InLinks.com and just keep focusing on link building strategies that work.”

    It’s always best to stay away from the latest get links quick fad. Slow and steady doing things right will always win the rankings race in the end.

    Stay clean, stay relevant & deliver great content.

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