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Originally Posted by khurramali
0 + 0 = 0
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Yes and 1 000 000 000 000 000 * 0 = 0
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Originally Posted by khurramali
The main problem is not who is linking to you, but who you are linking out to, that is what matters the most, so inspect websites closely who you consider linking out to because that can damage your rankings.
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Fully agree. OBL's should have higher weight's. E.g. linking to a competitior site should be regarded as a + (0.001 factor).
Linking to the original article should in your own article also count positive. Copying part of the original article without citation (linking) should be given a negative weight.
IMO opinion, some SE's are more advanced now. Buying links may not be so profitable any longer.
Problem:
- In 2004 I set up my first sites, and saw how easy it was to get a Google toolbar rank of 3. Since toolbar rank is a nonlinear (logaritmic) function, it requires more weeks of submitting to get a toolbar rank of 4 or 5.
- Now I have stopped submitting. And the PR of my other sites still stand on 0 or 1 even if some of them have better content in my view. Example see the last link in my signature. That site has been on the interent more than a year.
- The real headache for a SE basing their ranking and positioning on the SERP's must be to split sites and pages in two sets. One set with relevant, natural, organic, lateral, contextual links and another set with unnatural with the sole purpose of manipulating the rank and position.
- Linkfarms, I will expand that definition to social network based linkfarms. If you are a pupil at a high school, and participating in one or more social networsk, it should be no problem for you to outrank and outposition your teacher or professor writing on the same subject. Some days later, your teacher or professor asks you to come up to the blackboard and tell more about your article he found on digg. You walk up to the blackboard and stand there
in front of other pupils in the class participating in the same soical network linkfarm.
- Tell me when a SE bot will take a taste of wine from two online winestores and rank the difference in quality based on taste. It only ranks the difference based on mathematical algorithmes that are very esy to manipulate.