I was wondering how many people linked directly to their website during their backlink development or used a safety buffer? For example instead of bookmarking all your blog posts in the same bookmarking site, you would bookmark a 3rd party page instead and link back from it. Or obviously during the blackhat backlink building to stay safe and under the radar. You can see exactly what I mean by checking out my post on buffer link circles. -edit- sorry for the typo in my first poll option. It should be link*