Have you ever seen that “moment of clarity” or “awakening” in someones eyes? So often when trying to tell people what they need to do they just don’t get it, they don’t get that moment of clarity. We know that links are on Google’s hit list don’t we. Just the sheer amount of Googlers that were asking me in San Jose, if I had seen a down turn, had me thinking that if their attention and focus is linking buying, where are they becoming weak, so I and had quick peak and

I still see spam, good old BH spam leeching off authority sites,

I still see cross linked networks working,

I still see article and directories propping up sites working,

…. so where are Google winning, well in fairness LINK BUYING, but at a cost. I remember ages ago that Matt Cutts answered a Question about link buying to your competitors, He pretty much said why would you take the risk of lifting your competitors. I always thought that if the competitor was above me already what difference would it make anyway .. lol

Well it’s seems like some people have had an awakening, it seem that they are offering good money for people to build a sites about an industry and they will give you a link budget (£5 – 10k a month) and they will also supply link lists you have TO try and buy from. When I ran this though my tools and datasets, the findings were a “moment of clarity” the two things that I thought were

A) Building authority, my guess later to be used as lead generation or IBl’s

B) Totally poisoned the competitor back links, if they had 10, 50 or 100 of these sites I’m pretty sure that the link profiles could bring down all these sites and competitors, in fact they would be worth reporting their own sites just to bring the network to light lol.

DaveN