Comments on: Linking Strategies http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2007/04/linking-strategies/ SEO and Marketing Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:43:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sante http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2007/04/linking-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-16227 Sante Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:11:58 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog-test/2007/04/linking-strategies/#comment-16227 <p>Hello Lisa and fellow Bloggers/Readers, Search Engine Conferences are great, a sort of moment of truth or more in general an opportunity to review the state of the art on what's happening. I couldn't help but "smile" when I read a few statements by Jim B. </p> <p>I have a problem with blunt general statements like "this is dead - that is dead ..." </p> <p>Is it really dead ? </p> <p>No it's not. </p> <p>Sites linking to each other in mini nets are still up and running and ranking very well.</p> <p>Sites using spammy hidden text and hidden text links in an invisible layer of text like this:</p> <p><div style="Z-INDEX: 1; LEFT: 620px; VISIBILITY: hidden; WIDTH: 300px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: -132px; HEIGHT: 115px"></p> <p>Sites that exchange links are also doing well, even when it comes to competitive keywords. It obviously depends on how you do it, which is your reference model.</p> <p>Having had the privilege and honor of speaking at important SES (and other) events, I know there are new comers to search and search engines and I don't find it fair to simply shoot from the hip verdicts that confuse people when they actually see competitors ranking using just these techniques. What are they suppose to think ? </p> <p></p> <p> </p> Hello Lisa and fellow Bloggers/Readers,
Search Engine Conferences are great, a sort of moment of truth or more in general an opportunity to review the state of the art on what’s happening. I couldn’t help but “smile” when I read a few statements by Jim B.

I have a problem with blunt general statements like “this is dead – that is dead …”

Is it really dead ?

No it’s not.

Sites linking to each other in mini nets are still up and running and ranking very well.

Sites using spammy hidden text and hidden text links in an invisible layer of text like this:

<div style=”Z-INDEX: 1; LEFT: 620px; VISIBILITY: hidden; WIDTH: 300px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: -132px; HEIGHT: 115px”>

Sites that exchange links are also doing well, even when it comes to competitive keywords. It obviously depends on how you do it, which is your reference model.

Having had the privilege and honor of speaking at important SES (and other) events, I know there are new comers to search and search engines and I don’t find it fair to simply shoot from the hip verdicts that confuse people when they actually see competitors ranking using just these techniques. What are they suppose to think ?

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