martinibuster - 5:00 am on Apr 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>> Paying to "develop content"? Don't be ridiculous!

I own several hundred domain names and literally growing every day. It would take a hundred years to develop all of them all by myself (with QUALITY content), not to mention link development.

It's not an issue of insufficient creative talent, it's an issue of TIME. No one has time. Time costs money. Perhaps I'm more ambitious than you, but I can't understand your assertion that it's ridiculous to pay for content.

>>>You made your choices and you have to live with them.
Yep, and that choice is to monetize the hell out of my websites NOW and I do very well because I choose to follow a pragmatic and logical plan for developing my websites, which includes developing the backlinks.

My comments were directed at the assertion that it's enough to develop content and that if you build it the links will come (albeit over years). ronin, are you defending the notion that doing ZERO link development is an option?

I can sympathize with your annoyance at having to delete link requests, I find it slightly annoying myself, but I'm far too busy managing a thriving business to worry about something as insignificant as a recip link request.

If you want something to keep you awake at night try plugging your url into copyscape.com and see how many people are stealing your content. Now that's annoying.