Published: Nov 12, 2007 - 03:12 am
Story Found By: BrettBorders 1554 Days ago
Category: Link Building
4 Comments
4 Comments
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I always kind of assumed that all traffic was good, and all links added up... but indeed, the search engines may start to look at patterns of when groups of links were added to get the big picture. Linkbait, however white hat, is a kind of manipulation.
Im new to the game and also new to Sphinn. Since the category Im focusing on is extremely competitive, I am much more concerned with generating traffic than with manipulating Search engine rankings - if I were to focus on that then I would be competing with companies that can simply buy their way to the top or bowl me off of the search engines. Me? Im with Brett. I will take the traffic wherever I can get it. I hope that the traffic flow effects my SE ranking, but I will be more dependent on viral marketing than anything else. And I am staying "whitehat" for the moment.
Dave was only talking about what *he* would do, *if* he were Google.Still, the point he raised was pretty fair and common sense - basically taking value through mean growth via temporal analysis.
Indeed, iBrian. I submitted this because I like the sense of panoramic perspective that this post and the associated videos inspire. Some of us personally caught up in the whole linkbait / social gospel of the current times, and we dont stop to think about where things might be headed. The day when links arent a primary popularity metric might not be so far away. Google is buying up all kinds of tools, properties and technologies.. so its good to think about whats next, even if its just speculation.