Sometime’s Google makes me want to bang my head against a wall. I am always preaching to link buyers to buy natural looking relevant links. Ideally, the best, most safe and powerful links are links in natural content. Buy quality links and you will be rewarded.

Now, all of a sudden the massive garbage backlink trick seems to be working better than ever in Google. This is kind of ironic, given Google’s tough talk about paid link advertising over the past few months.

I am seeing sites ranking top 5 with 95% spam links, many of which are Russian or Chinese guest book and blog spam. This is the type of paid linking that gives the link selling industry a bad name.

On a personal level, we will be exhibiting at the WebMasterWorld tradeshow in December, so to get some idea’s for SWAG, I Google searched on the phrase ‘promotional items’. The number one site was one that reeked of poor quality – blossompromotions.com/ So I checked their backlinks in Yahoo and could not believe the garbage links that are boosting this site to #1. Here is a look at their backlinks: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3Ablossompromotions.com+-site%3Ablossompromotions.com

This may sound weird coming from LinkAdage, but I hope that Google gets better at spotting garbage backlinks or the SERPs will become quite a mess as sites with nothing to lose load up on crap links and the quality sites will get lost in the shuffle because they are spending their time getting relevant links on great websites. I am all for quality, on-target paid link advertising, but the garbage links helping garbage websites reach the top of the SERPs is a bit over the top.