To get to the top of the search engines you need backlinks – everyone knows that – but it is hard work- everyone knows that as well. So there is a massive industry out there now creating autoblogs, link wheels and automated backlinking software. There are even companies out there offering 50,000 backlinks for $50. It is all very tempting. There are a couple of things to be aware of – many of these are get rich quick schemes for the people who have made the software not you. So many of them have 1 page that you need to scroll for 25 minutes to get to the bottom of after reading 100 spun referrals from “ John Smith”. It is all very frustrating.