Does links from article submission sites count for SERPS. As with time your article get shifted to a very lower internal page with no PR.
If the article is good, it can be used by other publishers and in most of those cases, it doesnt get shifted to a lower page I know some people who only relies on article submission for their sites' popularity and they are not doing bad
In some cases, yes. I think when Google speaks what we hear is a mix of what is actually happening today and what they would like to have happen in the future. They blend it together though and present it, indirectly, as if it's all happening today. Regarding recip links...they are not going anywhere. Study the sites in the top of Google's serps and you'll see a high % of them are currently or have in the past exchanged links with other sites.
That may be so, GFC. The problem is that whether what Google says officially is 100% accurate or not, it's still most likely a LOT more accurate than most of the specualtion on forums that is presented as "the latest information" or "it is well known that...". When in doubt, go back and look at what Google says directly and be guided by that.
Without a doubt. Anyone who bases their actions soley on info they get from forums will be forever frustrated. Don't get me wrong - there's some great advice out there but there is so much crap sometimes it's hard for the new guy to the Internet marketing world to figure out what's real and what's theory. What I find to be even better than what Google or any forums says is what I see working in the serps day in and day out
I don't think this is what is normally considered triangular linking (please correct me if I am wrong). This is a silly loop that G. will most likely discount. I think this is meant by triangular: I have sites A and B. You have site C. I link from A to C. You link from C to B. No loop - to G both links look like one-way.
Hey Gang, Wow. Great discussion here. Assuming that I want a link on www.xyz.com linking to my site. (Regardless of whether it is a one-way, recip, or 3 way). Is there reason to believe that the link would be more valuable if it were on a content page as supposed to a links pages? (assuming that in all other ways, the pages were equal.)
I think the content page might be more likely to yield click-thru's from visitors so it would be more valuable in that respect. In terms of PageRank, I think it's uncertain whether at present it makes any difference, although I do believe that, whether or not relevancy counts for anything now, it will matter in the future.