101 Articles Links From Counters
LINKS FROM COUNTERS
Counter links are very similar to widget spam links. Counters are another type of widget that is added to different web pages of a website to track the visitors to a website. Most popular free counter or tracking software provider is stat counter. Most people use stat counter these days. Stat counter does have a link back their website from almost the tracking code they provide to their users. Here is an example of stat counter tracking code.
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But if you see stat counter is linking only to their web site and has never used their counters to abuse the search engines. But same counters can be used to link to any site we want. Most people who use counters don't know that there is an actual link to a website on their counter code. They are just ignorant about this fact. So people just take advantage of this and use this method to link to whichever site they want. There are counters that even link to weight loss, Viagra, pharmacy related sites. What's the relation between a counter and these spam sites? Almost nothing, it's just for search engine manipulation purpose.
There was a well known SEO company who used this tactic to take top position for keywords like SEO, search engine optimization etc. They were booted when the search engines reviewed the method they were using to rank. So yes it's a type of search engine manipulation tactic and they are ready to fight back against it.
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The above image depicts a link counter with 11900 links to payday loan site with title payday loan.
Inserting links in the counter image
Hidden links in counters
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Originating site: Homeappliances.com
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Other sites that refer to the same manipulation tactic are as follows |