18 nasty ways to get links - do not try these
Following on from ways to get links here are some blackhat nasty ways i have seen people use.
The people who use these techniques wont use them on a domain they can’t afford to lose; some of these techniques may be long dead, and some are illegal in most countries.
- Hijack domains at the registrar level
- Refer spam
- Comment spam anything that allows comments, not just blogs
- Hack sites and insert hidden links in the html
- Become a host and cloak links within customer pages
- XSS injection
- SQL injection
- Find exploits in well known scripts
- Find demo accounts, default passwords, or unpassworded accounts to a CMS
- Bait and switch
- Eg. frame/proxy a quality site, get links in the ‘white hat way’, then switch to own money making machine that no one wants to link to
- Buy domain similar to competitors, frame or proxy competitor site, contact places where competitor has backlinks and tell them to link to new url since you are moving domains for X reasons.
- Lie – eg. Make out it was you who placed a backlink to a site and request they link to a 3rd site of yours
- Redirect domain to high PR site, when PageRank changes start a link exchange frenzy before it disappears
- Give away scripts with backdoors or hidden links
- Give away templates with hidden links
- Join a link exchange program, and cloak the links on your site from search engines
- Capture abandoned free hosting
- Capture expired domains
This was going to be 25 nasty ways - but a few scumbag hacker types 
had objections.
