I'm sure you know the answer to this one lies in the tears being shed by thousands of website owners and online marketers.
Visit the forums and read the shock and horror. Look at the backlink profiles. The source is purely anecdotal. Just as I see the sun rise every morning for a few thousand days, then conclude the sun will continue to rise, so too will do I see the many Penguin victims and their backlink profiles which were created by autospamming tools.
Ahh, ok, so you don't have anything to cite, your statement was solely based on
your own perception of things, not hard facts?
Just because you see lots of people on various forums complaining that
the way they use tools for link building has got them penalised, does that mean that the tool will inherently cause the same outcome for everyone, regardless of how they use it?
On the forums I see lots of people who haven't used tools on their sites complaining that they have suffered losses due to google updates, does that mean that the same is true for manual link building as well then?
At the end of the day, you could just as easily tank a site manually building links if you don't know what you're doing, it just might take a bit longer.
I do not believe creating spam via xrumer or scrapebox is an effective recovery tool for those having been penalised, period. If you think so, you're well down the wrong path.
I agree, using scrape box or xrumer to spam links directly at your site to dilute your anchor text ratios could be a bad idea, but what about
possibly using them to help index any potentially useful links that are already pointing at your site?
Advocating people spam as a way of promoting or repairing their situation is doing them a great dis-service and potentially opening yourself up to a ton of liability.
I'm not advocating people spam or otherwise to promote or repair their situation, just that they should consider all the options, as trying to manually link build your way out of some penalty situations might not be the best move ROI wise.
Also, liability isn't an issue for me as I only do SEO on my own sites.
Doing something the wrong way is not the way, period.
As far as Google is concerned, there is no right or wrong in my book, just risk and reward. - They don't care about my business, so why should I care about theirs?
Sometimes the 'Right' way might be to go about things the way that you are suggesting, and other times not, IMO it just depends on the returns - after all this is business.
BTW I'm not interested in getting into a white hat vs black hat debate, as it's been done to death, and I personally don't believe in either.
