Ooohh…Ahhhh… Slobbering At The Feet of Almighty Matt Cutts
Mosey’s latest post unleashed the tiger in my soul… Wait! Maybe I don’t have a soul… I buy and sell links after all.
You know what. I think all this fuss about the PageRank economy is all a load of BS. Sure, you can raise a bunch of hypotheticals and point to the success that Google has had in solving problems algorithmically in the past. You can talk all you want about people who have gotten screwed in the past by relying on a business model that was, in the words of Google, pure evil! Broohaha!
I don’t care. Really, I don’t. Linking works now and linking will work in the future. Perhaps the value of bought links will go down slightly as the meme spreads of an imminent, pending Google crack down. Perhaps the strategy of fear will pay off ever so slightly.
But linking is linking. At its best, Google can decide to deflate the value of linked lists. Lists of links. But there are plenty of good lists of links. Not all linked lists are bad linked lists. So tell me how the logic works? Does Google have an algorithm for determining which linked lists are good and which are bad? If so, then you just emulate the good lists better. Bundle links into patterns of semantically relevant topics.
Or…better yet, watch the link buyers and sellers develop semantic link generators. What’s this you ask? Well, let’s say I want to buy a link on site X. I pay $30/ month and in exchange, site X installs a wordpress plugin that dynamically places your link in semantically relevant locations throughout the blog post content. Now let Google do its algorithmic dance.
The point is this: the value of run of the site links might dampen over time. Sure. And legit blog networks will get just as hard as evil link sellers. But even so, the value of links are still central to the SEO game, and so long as there is motivation for link building, there will be an economy for buying and selling links. The distribution mechanism of the economy might get more sophisticated, but it will be there and it will continue to stay strong.
Oh, and by the way, stop slobbering at the feet of Google. They don’t have all the powers you ascribe to them, anyway.
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