I've Pulled Hardlink Trades - You May Want To Read This

[Linkster]

Funny thing is this very same site that sent out this email has evidently already pulled the cat trades - but their second page of links - which is where I assumed they put the link trades isnt there - and the free site submitters arent going to be happy with this:
"robots" content="noindex,nofollow - on the cat pages after the newest page

[Surfn]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Funny thing is this very same site that sent out this email has evidently already pulled the cat trades - but their second page of links - which is where I assumed they put the link trades isnt there - and the free site submitters arent going to be happy with this:
"robots" content="noindex,nofollow - on the cat pages after the newest page

Interesting...

[plateman]

it really sorta good that this going down like this and see what LL owners are gonna start stabbing in the back

plus all the old LL that enjoyed years and years of a good income from google and thought they would never loose it was wrong, if you cant afford to loose a few LL se traffic that you own for a while then you didnt choose your biz model well...

I know for one I am gonna contact a few other LL's that I have index trades with to dissolve them, when I see prolly over a 100 hardlink trades on a index that IMO is a link farm

[Linkster]

The whole issue here is that anyone can interpret Google's definition of a link farm - I guess all those blogs out there that recip link on their first pages willnow be considered link farms if you follow the same theory to its conclusion - add to that that there are many LLs and TGPs in the top 100 that have exactly the same structure (and link partners) the whole concept falls apart

[Surfn]

I have never pulled an honest working link trade and have no plans to begin such a practice.

Of course I don't have the huge trades I see on many sites these days...I prefer old school trade partners.

[DangerDave]

Hahaha.. Linkster you should name them! I know that I want to know who they are so that I can make sure I avoid them!

People need to stop blaming Google and other sites for their 'misfortune', and concentrate on their own 'work'. Additionally they should start ignoring all these theorists that only come up with crap to explain their own stupidity or laziness.

The "rules" for ranking well in google have not changed in years since it arrived.

If you have regularly updated relevant and informative content you will rank well.
If you have and continue to gain incoming links to your sites from other quality and relevant sites you will rank well.
Do both and you will out rank everyone, and who you link to will have absolutely no influence on anything..

Based on some peoples theories, if Microsft linked to Plateman then Microsoft's ranking would fall.. What a crock of shit

Hi JennyM - is that arrogant enuff for you!?

DD

[Maj. Stress]

Originally Posted by DangerDave

The "rules" for ranking well in google have not changed in years since it arrived.
DD

While the core basics have pretty much remained the same, how they are interpreted has changed and continues to change. This can be said for other large search engines also.

[bluemoney]

Originally Posted by DangerDave

The "rules" for ranking well in google have not changed in years since it arrived.

If you have regularly updated relevant and informative content you will rank well.
If you have and continue to gain incoming links to your sites from other quality and relevant sites you will rank well.
Do both and you will out rank everyone, and who you link to will have absolutely no influence on anything..

I agree
And that's worth printing out . . hint hint

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by DangerDave

Based on some peoples theories, if Microsft linked to Plateman then Microsoft's ranking would fall.. What a crock of shit
DD

I read an article recently and I wish I could remember where it is but I can't. It addresses this issue, to a degree. A web site can't be penalized due to the sites that linkt to the site because the site doesn't have any control over what sites link to it. (Think D*sney is going to be penalized because porn sites link to it? Not a chance. D*sney has no control over who links to them) On the other hand, if there is a recip link in place, would that make a difference? I don't know anything about a site being penalized but it would seem that if two sites exchange links and they both have relevant content, i.e. a Lesbian cat. page linking to a Lesbian cat. page, then that would be a good link exchange.