You can optimize your pages, but bad linking (bad SEO) can kill you at the same time. Ask Search King, they will tell you all about what trading in PR can get you
Yup I learned my lesson the hard way...haven't bought links since. Yet I also can see some are getting away with it still. What is different is now Google is allowing the spider and counting the bls but giving it little to NO value I keep seeing it over and over. Once upon a time Google used to grey scale or PR0, when penalized. It seems now they are not issuing a visible penalty. So when you see you have obtained 200k NEW bl's from paid linking don't start smilen too fast. In fact, you may be saddened to learn that the $1500+ you forked over is worth didly. If Google is aware of a site participated in the selling of links for the purpose of PR increase, I believe they are flagged but nothing visible (that we can see) happens...the PR is worthless. 0 passes. This makes for a happy link seller and an unhappy link buyer. My advice is don't buy links for the purpose of PR increase...probably a waste of money, definately a crap shoot.
I do agree that poor linking strategies can hurt your site. I check all outbound links once a month and remove the dead wood. But links are only a fraction of the SEO puzzle.
Considering how little people seem to think that PR is worth in the grand scheme of things, why in the world would I want to spend $1500/month on buying links. It just doesn't make sense. Besides, I also heard that google is giving less weight to site wide links, making those sorts of 'deals' even less worthwhile. I suppose they will continue to make money on it for awhile however.
absolutely ... it is a balance between many factors. Content, navigation, your domain and many more things. A lot of new seo's are wasting their time with linkexchanges that don't help them. Sometimes being passive is the best way to go. Link if you find a good site to link with but don't do it too aggressive. Natural does it. Some sites need 1,000 links to rank where others can do it with 15. It all depends on the big picture and not everybody sees it.
Yes I agree with you ST. I, for one concentrate on relevance. I have been employing this strategy for some time now. I am gaining ground. Before I had 1,000's of not relevant links...didn't seem to help me. I now have a handful of very relevant links and am climbing the ranks at an astonishing rate
I have also been reading about natural linking or niched hubs. I know this has been around for a while but I think alot of webmaster can't see the forest through the trees sometimes. Natural linking is something you can manufacture yourself. No cost but your precious time... http://www.niched-hubs.com/articles/boosting-linkpop-with-natural-linking/ PS: Yes I know the author refers to adult many times throughout, but these porn guys have some very interesting tactics they use that work.
That is one of the smartest resources I have seen in ages, especially the themed link graphic. Google knows that "green peppers" relates to "vegetables". That is the best way to do it.
Yes, ST, for me it was an enlightening read. Drank a six pack reading it, then started completely changing my architectural linking on all domains...still working on it.
Indeed...but not poutine On a serious note, I actually read the article previously posted 5 years ago. I have recently been reading that Google Is now using LSI and LSA. It's kind of funny how some adult webmaster figured this out 5 years ago. It fits in quite nicely with my understanding of Google's new technology...LSI.