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Old 06-04-2008, 02:01 PM
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Default Re: Can inbound links really hurt you?

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Be careful what you wish for!
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Link analysis was the single biggest innovation the search industry has seen in the 15 yrs. I've been doing this. PPC was big in that it solved the monetization issue, not the search quality issues. Links were citation/votes when Google released the algo that changed the net. People linked to stuff or research that mattered to their users (endorsements), not, because they were manipulating a SE algo.
That's not how I remember it. When I first learned SEO, Alta Vista was the biggest game in town. One of the things we were taught in an online SEO class I took was to exchange links to affect how Alta Vista saw us ... it was not just for traffic.
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