sugarrae - 10:52 pm on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>>No kidding. The thread is titled "Your New Link Strategy." The question is what kind of links are ideal as a strategy in light of the Jagger update at Google.

My response was to your quote above:

>>>I do think they are "unnatural" from the search engines' perspective. They want links to be a kind of vote for the site being linked to.

and not the original post of this thread.

You said recips are "unnatural" because engines want links to be a vote. My point is that recips are indeed a natural occurence (though they may not be *used* naturally by all) and have been around since before the algorithms. The engines know recips are a natural part of Internet life. I think they're smart enough to try and devalue only those recips they see as trying to game the system.