Home Depot is known to be the hub for builders of all kinds but does that include link builders?

John posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums stating that Home Depot is actively encouraging their “partners” to link to them in order to help them increase their rankings and authority in the search results. Home Depot even goes as far to tell them that “the hyperlink does not have to be visually indicated.”

John posted the message they sent business partners the other day:

The email goes on to add:

Then the email explains how to add the link to your site and what anchor text to use.

Home Depot, really? Did you hire an outside agency or are they using an internal staff member for this? Back in March, they did have a job opening for an SEO Senior Analyst which seems to now be not open anymore.

Maybe Home Depot should stick with building decks and stay away from building hyperlinks?

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.