Death of the Category Recip

[Greenguy]

Web Archive page of my recip page from Oct 13th 2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/200210130.../linkstuff.htm

August 2007 is when my listing shit the bed, so almost a 5 year span.

But, the bottom line is, nobody seems to think the cat recip is the magic bullet it used to be.

At XBiz, the guys on the SE panel and the guys on the HTML5 panel all agreed that deep linking is still the best way to beef up your SE listings.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Web Archive page of my recip page from Oct 13th 2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/200210130.../linkstuff.htm

August 2007 is when my listing shit the bed, so almost a 5 year span.

At XBiz, the guys on the SE panel and the guys on the HTML5 panel all agreed that deep linking is still the best way to beef up your SE listings.

Then let's switch to just the deep link. And see what happens.

That would be less obvious attempt to manipulate links, and possibly safer. But, it would also be a pure page-to-page recip, and hence weaker.

I've suggested here in the past that we should adopt entirely new linking patterns with greater unpredictability and less blatant structure, more like natural linking. That is unlikely to happen.

I'm hardly the first person to suggest that google eventually saw the cat recips, deemed them a way to game google, and punished them.

They ARE a way to game google, to get in two links instead of one, that's what they always were. It was an inherent risk.