- Article directoryHistorical
An article directory is, in SEO, a website where users submit articles and place a link to their own site in the text or author box.
- Bad neighborhood
Bad neighborhood is an SEO term for a group of spam sites that a website is connected to through links.
- Buying links
Buying links means giving money, goods or services in return for a link to your site.
- Disavow links
Disavowing links means uploading a list of links to Google that Google should ignore when assessing your site.
- Google bombingHistorical
Google bombing (also Googlebomb) was an attempt to push a page up for a search term by pointing many links with identical anchor text at …
- Link exchange
A link exchange, also called reciprocal linking, means two websites agree to link to each other.
- Link scheme
A link scheme is a pattern for creating links mainly to influence search rankings.
- Link spam
In SEO, link spam means links to or from a site that exist primarily to manipulate search rankings.
- Negative SEO
Negative SEO means deliberate attempts to harm the search rankings of another website.
- Private blog network (PBN)
A private blog network (PBN) is a group of websites under common control whose main purpose is to link to one or more target sites to …
- Toxic backlinks
Toxic backlinks is a term from SEO tools for incoming links judged harmful to a site, for example links from spam sites or link networks.