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Originally Posted by VirtuosiMedia
I'll bite. Let's see some definitive proof in terms of a study. Create two websites where the only difference between them is that one of them links to Google and the other doesn't and post the results. Or, if you don't want to do that, show us some quantifiable proof based on your eight years of experience.
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Do you even need proof to laugh this one out of the ball park?
Imagine the scene. You are tasked with creating a search engine that returns the web page that best matches a searcher's query. Would you give some weird ranking boost to a page that merely linked to your search engine site? What sense would that make?
I have a page that is only tenuously linked to the subject of, yes, red widgets. But because I sneakily link to Google.com my page suddenly ranks better for searches for 'red widgets'? How is that right? Well, it's not.
Draw an analogy. You are the judge in a jury (you are Google!). The defendant (the page being ranked) is very guilty and you know it. However, they know you (this is the sneaky link to Google.com). Do you give them 'more points' for simply knowing you? I hope you're outraged by the suggestion 
Last edited by gringo; 03-13-2009 at 05:41 PM..
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