"Dont Xrumer your money sites" -- why?

I think the problem with the xrum blasts is that they can't be maintained. Like some have reported, they will disappear and reappear and get sandboxed because the link velocity created is WAY out of proportion to what google is normally finding for links coming to your site. If you can maintain a regular xrum run of 200 a day, you would be MUCH better off than getting 10k in one hit.

Besides all that though... since June 8, all this link stuff is only part of the equation now.

Personally if I wanted to run an xrum blast, I would rather do it through my web2.0 properties and buffered blogs.

i think it all depends on which keywords you want to rank and your competitors.
If you want to rank for viagra like keywords then you can use xrumer.
If you competitor has 10.000 backlinks, then those backlinks are possibly crap backlinks on forum profiles and guestbooks.
If you want to rank for another keyword like weight loss or something and you competitor has 10.000 backlinks, then I think his backlinks are not crappy backlinks, but some good backlinks from well established pages. So you can then do an xrumer blast of 10.000 but the value of your backlinks are not equal to your competitors backlinks. Yes I rank on some keywords thanks to xrumer in the gambling niche, but on other niches it just has a bad effect on my rankings.

1. My experience I have found is that Xrumer can be used sparingly on your money site if you already have a couple of thousand backlinks and an aged site with good content rankings anyway

2. BUT there is a a small risk that a forum you piss off will start making nasty noises and report you. That is what worries me. Now I have no idea if Google actually listens to these reports but I really don't want to throw away 2 years work on the off chance!

3. ALSO xrumer links have a high decay rate especially as far as I can see in first three months so you need to have additional automated programs working in the background to at least not have negative link velocity.

4. The google boys I am sure are wise enough to attach a higher value to a balanced portfolio of backlinks from press releases, articles, blogs the whole 9 yards than just one source. 5,000 profile links I think might just stand out if you have 5001 links in total.

4. FINALLY people who say you cannot grow links really fast or that links have to be context relevant or that new sites cannot rate high on Google are WRONG. What happens when there is a disaster like the BP oil spill, the Iceland volcanic eruption or worse some rubbish new Boy band is launched Suddenly really obscure site plus lots of new ones spring up with 000s of backlings. Google has to figure into its algorithm a backdoor so they get high SERPS positions immediately (and are 100% not sandboxed) or it is out of business.

So the morale is think how the pattern of links would grow for a boy band or whatever and replicate it! By the way press releases, forum comments and blog comments would by my bet on what Google really focus on. Anyone noticed how forums are really prominently featured on Google now