(Entry was posted by Femmy Agboola on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/01/2022).

What do you think of this DUMB link-building strategy?

What do you think of this DUMB link-building strategy?
Someone send this link-building strategy to me and I want to seek your indulgence as to how safe it is. He asked me to write and submit articles to blogs and article directories, which I presume is quite good. However, he asked me to go to microtask websites and pay workers to click on the links I provided on the submitted articles and guestposts. And that`s all. To me, it looks skeptical. What`s your take on this strategy? if it can work, how do you do it right? Thanks.

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David Gossage: OK, so article directories is a giant "run away" and anyone who suggests this should be immediately sacked and put in a time machine to send them back to 2009.In terms of paying people to click on the links in the articles? What for? I suspect they`ll come back with some nonsense about Google tracking users via magic and suddenly realising that the shitty link directory isn`t a shitty link directory. Sounds horrific in every way.
Michael Martinez: Not a useful strategy.
Tim Capper: Waste of time, could be doing something constructive on site.
Veniz Maja Guzman: Paying people to click links sounds incredibly shady, not to mention unsustainable in the long term!
Neil Cheesman: About 10 years ago, my website got hit by a Google `link` penalty - since that time I haven`t `sought` links from anywhere - I produce content and that content automatically gets links - some `good` links and some spammy ones. It has taken a while, but I can sleep at night. Others may have a different strategy, but this works for me.
Phillip Matte: Just do not jeopardize yourself, doing questionable things.
Krishan Lakhiwal: which seo person give this type strategy
Shane Deubell: The real value is when someone clicks link, lands on the page and engages with the content in some way and seeks out even more information on the website.
Ivan David Lippens: Kind of surprising guys are saying this is no good... It`s about the click-throughs... and yes, there are public studies that shkw it works. The content vehicle is not the strategy... it`s ghe CTR.
Michael Martinez: Ivan David Lippens Any public studies purporting to show this strategy works are worthless. Clicking on links in articles has no effect whatsoever on anything other than analytics.
Ivan David Lippens: Michael Martinez I`ve personally used this successfully. And again, there are major public demonstrations of its effectiveness.Do a search on CTR SEO, or something.Good day to you, sir...
Michael Martinez: Ivan David Lippens And, again, it doesn`t work. You can stand on a street corner and snap your fingers and get the same kind of performance benefits.Also, if you insist on insulting people in this group, we`ll put you on moderation. You`re welcome to disagree with people but be respectful.
Dennis Hamming: Ctr boosting works (temporarily)