Alan, when you say SE's to spot you who are you referring to.  Sorry really new here not sure what you were saying.

Thank you for the response as well.

Wow thank you so much for the responses they were very helpful. I was asking this question so I can learn proper seo not for the intention to black  hat my way to the top.  I have built a company from the ground up with my family and have no intentions of doing anything to harm our internet presence in any way.

I wanted to know if it was bad or not because I had a local seo guy wanted to build that type of structure for our site and wasn't sure.

Optimize - You freaking rock... now thats an answer... I am going to forward this over to the seo guy as the main reason why I won't be hiring him. lol

Thanks again...

Excuse me for such a newbie question but is using a backlinking pyramid black hat seo.  I was trying to find out but every site gives you different advice on this subject.

Also If there is a type of backlinking structure that is best please let me know.

thanks