Beyond the links not being quality, will they do the trick for a short amount of time? I have a friend who has 9000 backlinks a little over a month. Also are there any link trains that are available to individuals with standard websites (not blogs)?
A link train to the best of my knowledge is when a blogger makes a list of links and copies them to their front page. They then ask the next person to do the same but add their links to it. It's like a chain letter only containing links. Sorry if this breaks any rules but here is a link to one. Some people are claiming to be getting thousands of backlinks on weeks. http://www.aglococashmachine.com/category/link-trains/
My blog has been listed in some blogs automatically and they did backlinks to mine. That is great. However, I am not sure it is a "link trains" method.
It's like a traveling link-farm... The problem is when it pulls into Google Stationâ„¢ it pretty much looks like...
If you have a personal blog you could try making it into more of a meme type game by listing one - ten and placing your URL as number one and then instruct your readers to fill in the second line, the third, etc till all ten are filled then have the eleventh person start the list over. That will keep it less like a link farm and more like a progressive list of less then ten per post. I tried it on my live journal account and got it to go out a few numbers, but then my circle of friends are not all that web savvy or even care about such things... Web mastering blogs may be able to push it out farther to get a few more links.
i don't know any link trains to participate in, but i don't think it would be worth the time. surely, the search engines must look down on this approach. i can't imagine the links carrying any 'weight' whatsoever.
I have recvently posted a link train to my blog. You can take a look at it here: http://www.personaldevelopmentbooks.net/Blog/2007/08/15/increase-your-technorati-rank/ I'm not yet sure if it's worth it or not.
At the end of the day you're trying to game Google, and Google doesn't like that. They like natural links. I think it's a definite train smash waiting to happen!
as i understand , link trains is a different way of link exchange? i dont think it may get success. link exchange is a ban reason for google
It sounds like an incredibly bad idea. It may work for a short period of time but it will probably get a ban.