Would a "Link Map" Really Work?

[rumblepup]

I've often been referred to Bruce Clay's SEO website www.bruceclay.com/ for reference, but I've only recently really looked at it. (I'm more of a Matt Cutts fan myself) and he has some interesting articles, but it seems to me that this is stuff I regularly read and learn here.

However, there was one service that seemed interesting, but I don't really know how the SE's would respond to it. He calls in LinkMaps(TM) but the concept is fairly simple.

You create pages that link to the web pages that link to your site. Not a link exchange, but the actual pages that link to your site. His supposition is that on your next crawl, by any search engine, you are letting them know where you are being linked from. The search engines, in turn, crawl those pages, and viola, find your link among them.

Of course, this has some strange undertones, to me. One, those pages that link to your site most probably have links to other web sites, even competing ones. So even though you are doing your self a favor, your doing those other sites a favor as well.

I understand the logic behind it. Don't leave it up to the SE's to find your inbound links, tell them right of the bat. But how far can it go?

For instance, let's say you have a really deep crawl at Yahoo or MSN, and you put a link to that search result page on your own links page? (We can't call it a LinkMap(TM) because that belongs to Bruce Clay)
Will Google, MSN, or Yahoo see it as spam?

More important still, would the SE's see the whole pratice as spam? I'd like to see what this practice would really do, but I don't think any of us would like to take that kind of risk. One of the worst things in today's SE invironment is to be labled a spam website.

Still, we all imploy other "similiar" techniques, such as a sitemap page to get the SE's to see everyone of our pages. Some of us in the e-commerce field use "all products" pages so that the SE's will crawl, ta da, all of our product detail pages. These work out okay for some.

Would this links page work in the same way? Or will it kill you dead?

[incrediblehelp]

Are you talking about just creating minisites or other websites for the sole purpose of building link popualrity to your main website?

If so then dont do it.