SEO Tycoon

**Learning Newbie** · 02-08-2007, 06:17 PM

ChristHirst was kind enough to point me to another very useful forum, and in reading it, I found this post:

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=18933

I hope it's not against the rules to post this here, but I get the sense it's more of a "friendly competition" situation going on. If I'm wrong I give my apologies in advance.

But I think this is useful information and people should be aware of it. There's an attitude that you can buy a domain name, post a bunch of forum signatures, and then watch the millions role in. But the facts don't seem to support this.

**Visio** · 02-08-2007, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

ChristHirst was kind enough to point me to another very useful forum, and in reading it, I found this post:

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=18933

I hope it's not against the rules to post this here, but I get the sense it's more of a "friendly competition" situation going on. If I'm wrong I give my apologies in advance.

But I think this is useful information and people should be aware of it. There's an attitude that you can buy a domain name, post a bunch of forum signatures, and then watch the millions role in. But the facts don't seem to support this.

Not punished but dis valued. Recip, directory and forum links have continually been dis valued. Using them will not in and off themselves get you in trouble however if your rankings are held by them you may lose them overnight. Recip links can be dangerous if you link to the wrong site or irrelevant sites.
Paid links CANNOT be detected by Google that easy. Matt wants us to believe they can when in reality it is quite hard. They use methods such as area body. If Google sees the words 'paid', 'sponsored' etc near links it may not value them assuming they are paid. If you do it right they will never know. I buy links for traffic not the value but I don't think Google should tell me how to do it and they don't. I do it my way.

**yasha78** · 02-10-2007, 10:04 PM

Yep. Many people now prefer not just to buy a link, but buy a link that's located within a paragraph of content, or a so-called pre-sell page.