I have noticed many sites that rank well in the US that have lots of foreign backlinks which appears to be working for them. Should I get some and how? Are they using some type of blackhat SEO that will eventually get them into trouble with the SE's? Thanks.
Foreign, you mean as in from non english speaking countries. I've seen this kind of thing too. The last one I found was using referrer spam. "Are they using some type of blackhat SEO that will eventually get them into trouble with the SE's" If they're using referrer spam, yes, that's blackhat. But so are a lot of SEO techniques in my honest opion. If you ask me there are hardly any so called "whitehat techniques" because they all are done with the intention of manipulating results. I guess I'm trying to answer your question "Should I get some and how?" The question shouldn't be whether to do blackhat or not as nearly all techniques can be classed as blackhat, it should be, "how risky is this and what do I stand to lose?" If it's your own website and you don't mind it getting banned, go ahead, see what happens. If you do mind getting your site banned you could experiment on a seperate domain on a seperate host with seperate domain registrant data.
i have seen same, my competetor sites has lot of do-follow backlink links on non-english hihg pr sites, i was wondering how to they do that?
Like I said one method I come accorss often is referrer spam. It's where you setup a script that goes to thousands of websites setting your referrer string as whatever site you're trying to get backlinks for. A lot of sites publish their referrer logs online and so when they do you end up getting a link from their domain.
If you were the designer of a website theme (such as wordpress template, the millions of WordPress users are all looking for one) you would have your link in the footer, which means that as of right now you would have many backlinks give or take, depending on how many have left the footer intact after downloading. I find some webmaster are doing it fine.