Here's a good article which I wrote that you must keep in mind.. http://www.manishpandey.com/2007/top-6-tips-when-opting-for-blog-reviews/
Uh wow. I disagree with a lot of that. Here's my points to your points 1)Yes, it helps. Although google DOES follow links in non-indexed blogs. I tested today with a non-indexed mini farm actually. None are indexed. The farm was tiny, only 145 blogs, all wordpress. The site they pointed to(there were no other links going there) got 45 crawls within 1 hour. Also, Google's duplicate content filters really only work if the entire site is a duplicate. They're pretty much a joke. Once again, this is from experience. I've taken a keyword and gotten the top 3 spots with almost EXACTLY identical articles. 2)No. PR is a sham. High PR is good, but low/no PR is not necessarily bad. 3)Google cant handle link spam yet, they arent near handling purchased links. 4)It depends on how fast you want your link indexed. Frequent posters get indexed MUCH faster than slow posters. Sometimes every hour, or faster. 5)If you want the link for HIS traffic, yes. If you want the backlink, no. 6)Really, you should almost never pay for blog links, unless it's super high traffic, super cheap, and exactly in your niche. It was a decent post, but I guess it depends on your method. Quantity can easily bypass most of those. I really don't mean to be a prick by the way, I just disagree.
Yup. Which is why I gave a compliment with my own criticism. Outside of the review threads, I don't really give those. Feel special. But that is a lot like what I talked about in my last blog(not the one linked to in this thread). You cannot get excellent results by doing the same thing everyone else is doing. And that kind of blog thing IS the kind of thing most people are doing. Some it works for, most it doesn't. And I, for one, refuse to feel pride over some $4 adsense paycheck. I'm a Internet Marketer. This is what I do. I'm not going to always play by Matt Cutt's house rules.