There are many SEO specialists who will argue that there are many "quick" ways to get your website indexed and ranked in a short period of time, but these quick-fix link strategies often don't pan out beyond offering some marginal immediate traffic and no long-term value. Many will agree that building too many links using questionable practices like "blog networks" and other multiple-linking plans will only hurt your website in the long-run. If you invest in too much too fast, you're liable to earn the wrath of the search engines, which will just make it harder and take longer for you to rank.

By far the best link strategies are the ones where the webmaster or website owner generates their links in a natural, progressive style. There's no reason to go too fast, even if your website is created for profit. Creating genuine original content (this is like gospel now) will generate natural links from relevant websites who are interested in sharing subject matter that relates to their own sites. While some call this "linkbaiting", writing or generating quality content, whether in articles, reports, stories, or news, will earn you links, build up your website, and give the search engines something to search.

Don't waste your time (and money) on useless linkbuilding practices like blog networks, as you're likely to find out that the search engines don't want 500 articles written about exactly the same thing, when there is only one true source for the information. And don't be surprised if your blog network provider has all of his blogs removed for violating terms of use. Many of these get-rich-by-posting-duplicate-articles bloggers disappear overnight, along with their blogs.

There is no substitute for steady, consistent linkbuilding using natural practices, such as content, reciprocal linking (with relevant link partners), directory submissions, article submissions, or other tactics. Even suggesting a story to one of your competitors or similar-themed websites might earn you an additional backlink or two. (This is why the World Wide Web is a "web", because websites are linked together in a web.)

Do your best to avoid quick-linking, as you're ultimately paying for a lot of useless links that will provide little or no value to you or your website.