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I didn't post it as an @matt because I don't think he gets direct messages. But I did post it to both Twitter and Friendfeed and asked anyone who could to get it to him. There's a lot of other...

Thanks MartinK. Looks like ya'll have been dealing with this kind of thing for a long time. I've caught many people using our press releases, and used to try and make them keep our links in...but...

Thanks to you both for looking. I feel better about it...although I still hope Matt kills them...:-)

Thanks, Dan. I hope you are right. I've never seen anything quite like that before. It bothers me that Google is spidering them all too. That's how I found out they existed.

Hopefully Matt...

I hope one of you knows what's going on here and can advise me.

I get Google alerts in email every day for the subjects I blog about, my main search terms, and my name. Yesterday and today...

Better than an inside page, but it can still get you penalized in Yahoo if you have too many...plus it can hurt the PR of your site in my opinion. We used to do them, and still do, but I limit it to...

Caution - Only recipricate to same topic sites

I would have preferred an option to say "It's just a waste of time..." :-)

So do I, Doc. And you just helped me make up my mind about that, too.
One of my friends said "agent" denotes "salesman" to her, and she didn't like salesmen. I passed that on to Scott. I never...

I didn't want to presume on the forum and post any links. But if you'd like to take a look so far, the website is www.carolinapolicies.com

By the way, I hand code. Don't use dreamweaver. Don't...

Ok, my friend. I think I understand you now. Thanks for clarifying so well.
I'm going to follow your collective advice and make it a part of the site.
Now my dilemma is...
Ask the Insurance...

Thank you all for answering! I have one question for Tubby now...
it is the last link to your site that gives the most value. If the New topics create an extra inbound link you are well ahead.
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Hi everyone,
I've long depended on WPW for the best SEO advice around. I've been in the field myself for a long time, but would like to get a couple of other opinions to make a decision here.
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I don't think Matt or anyone has ever said WHY they only show a sampling. But they've all said it was just that. I think it's even somewhere on the Google site. In my experience, Yahoo usually...

Thanks. :-)
If you look at that page that has your link on it, check the Google cache, and it's there and shows your link, then Google is aware of it. Those links that show from the "backlink"...

Like Kresidious and Brensec both say, Pagerank is at its most simple form nothing but incoming links. The type and quality of links plays a huge part in it. They've all but discounted inside...

Hi all,
I don't post here as much as I read here, but I thought I'd put in my 2 cents about the convention and about Matt, if it's ok.

First of all, I think that putting Matt in the position of...

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I do SEO for real estate sites and sort of belong to an affiliation of realtors that all do, and have done homepage linking for about 2 years now. It's definately the way to go...

I would venture to say that it's just his title.
The number one site has nothing in it's title except
"Cool Bandanas" and has a low page rank.

Make your title say something like this......

Luvdavy,
It's not the quantity of links that point to your site that will move up your PR, it is more as a result of the PR of those sites pointing to you, (incoming PR) and the overall structure of...

The site that I monitor the most of mine is a vacation rental/real estate sales site that is in the top 2 for every competitive (and I MEAN competitive) term there is, and a PR5. I have 4 links...

I don't think so. I've got more than a few links on all my websites of other sites belonging to friends...and blogs and things. I'm certainly not being penalized at all. My sites are all extremely...

May I recommend the services of www.Pair.com for hosting? I have all my sites there. It's a big company with positively the most wonderful customer support group I've ever encountered on the whole...

Did you click on the link that I provided? Or did you use the Googelbar cache menu item?

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Yes, I could see it from that Google server...just not from mine at home or the one at work. ...

Google must be dancing a little bit. My version tonight is still showing no cache. I guess we're looking at different servers. I do show that she's got 4 backlinks though.

And I checked and...

Her page was a PR5...she has about 1500 links. At the time she really didn't know SEO at all...but she was trading links like crazy. She would often send them to me in case I wanted to get them...