Word. I've noticed that for a lot of KWs there are these weird websites sitting on the second page that have a shitload of blog network links and nothing else. The PR juice they have coming in is probably 10 times more than the site sitting at number 1. Still, lack of link variety kills them
Totally agree with you, thats why I agreed with my client, who now starts to spent more money on me to rank his site, that I'll add other kind of links for variety, such as bookmarks / wiki links / (edu) blog comments (little bit) / profile links (little bit) / press releases / manual blogcomments at high PR sites with low OBL and anything else I can come up with.
Also I will not only make use of highPRsociety for his site but also ArticleRanks, Unique Article Wizard, Authority Link Network, My Article Network, so that's 5 private/public networks and a ton of web2.0's.
I haven't asked him yet but will ask him to use his site for my portfolio when I get him high up at page 1. I now only have my dutch site to show to prospects but that's not so great for English speaking potential clients.
