Links don't count for SERPs anymore.

slicer said:

The type of link now is crucial to getting position now.
Also the place you put your link is important too.
Putting a link on a web page is not the only type of link

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Reg-nbs-seo said:

...I have done a linking program using a specific term as anchor text and it has not been enough to move me into the top 1000 for the search term.

All the things you say work, have shown me THROUGH EXPERIENCE to be BS - Hence the NBS in my domain name.

I have done the "thousands of link" plans, Reciprocal linking, watched 3 and 4 way linking get sites banned, watched cross linking get sites banned, (A friend and client had a $170,000 a year income affiliate site system go down the tubes for cross linking. Along with her new home and car.
I have paid people to manually search out high PR sites and get links, to NO effect whatsoever.

It is not like I started doing this work when I setup nbs-seo.com
I have been servicing clients in SEO WebDesign and hosting for well over a decade.
I have come to my conclusions through trial and error, testing, analytic processes, and intensive study.
If there is a linking plan, it is most likely I have tried it.

If your interpretation of my metrics is at odds with mine, show me yours.
In this whole thread NOT ONE opposing member has presented anything but opinion and conjecture.

Can anyone point to ONE definitive study showing links having a positive affect on search positions.
Hell, at this point i will even take one a couple of years old.
If you can find one done since Caffeine I will give you a free year's professional hosting.

Others have said this and one in particular, Paul DeSousa, (pauldesousa (dot) co.za/pagerank-explained) wrote, Don't forget that this was in 2007. Since then Google has devalued links to an even greater extent.

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Yukinari84 said:

I'm not sure what you mean by "thousands" of link plans. I don't think there are thousands of different ways to get backlinks although there a lot.

If you really have tried "thousands" of ways to get backlinks like you say you have and still failed, that doesn't mean backlinking doesn't work. It just means you are horrible at it.

You keep asking for studies about backlinks and anchor text, and I keep giving you one of the most famous examples with Adobe. If backlinks and anchor text did not influence rankings, then Adobe's Reader download page would not be ranking 1st for the term "click here" which has 3.3 billion competing pages(833 million in quotes).

Your site doesn't even rank in the top 100 for your main KW which is "seo results" according to your META data nor does it rank for similar relevant terms like seo consulting, seo consultation, search engine optimization, etc.

I would think clients would want the person they are paying for their SEO services to at least rank for their own keywords...

This thread is becoming pointless and a waste of BHW bandwidth.

If you want to rant about links being worthless and anything else, save it for your own blog or site.

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Reg-nbs-seo said:

LOL BIG PINK TEXT DOES NOT MAKE YOU RIGHT.

IF anchor text is THE KEY, how do you explain away that there is NO difference between posting anchor text links for promotional reasons and posting anchor text links for a Google Bomb.

Do you not understand that Google is dead set against using ANY means of manipulating the search results other than relevance, and using links falls into that category?

Do you not understand that an anchor text link does not improve or contribue to the relevance of the topic?
It is the same as a meta tag, providing information about the page it links to.

Do you really think that ONLY anchor text links with the same text as the intended phrase count?

Do you not understand the implications of the Mayday update?

How do you dismiss the fact that Google told us to not bother about links?

How can you look at the TONS of evidence supporting the fact that links are irrelevant?

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