Links are one of the key seo components and can generate good website traffic. Linking in general is one of the most double-edged tools since bad “links” might decrease your page-rank and good links will undeniably polish it and hopefully boost your hit-rate.
Unsure of what bad and good links are, many seem reluctant to submit articles in order to distribute links to their sites. Don’t. Be reluctant that is. As always, all you need is to know the rules.
So, what are the worries?
Google penalizes multiple content
Bad links decimate your pagerank
The notion that Google penalizes multiple content is not based on fact. Even Google themselves point to the fact that what they penalize is multiple instances of identical content on the same site. No worries then.
They may however penalize sites that have identical content AND structures. Meaning if you have a domain that carries a content tree that is identical to any number of others, then you may feel the punishing touch.
That bad links decimate your page rank is fact. A bad link can be defined as one that has a lower page-rank than your own. Page-rank is affected by...