Salesmaster_II - 10:12 am on Feb 7, 2002 (gmt 0)

Village Idiot - Fear Not!

Six months ago, I was wondering the same, yet already I am getting top position hits for my favourite keywords with only half a dozen link backs (most of which are mine?).

Listen to the words of wisdom from these guys, mainly:
1) Focus on good content.
2) Check Bretts "Theme-Pyramid".

Good news is around the corner. I am still merely a novice, but again, I believe the wind of change will blow for newbies.

I am not promoting my sites for link backs yet, as I do not want to generate to much traffic until the site is really together, yet because of this technology, already I am out-ranking many of my "Heroes" is salesmanship.

The very good news is this:

Recently whilst surfing my competitors, I noticed pages of unrelated links, which is obviously one of the "Link-farm" type projects spoken of above. Thes appear to be massive lists of varying nature.

I also wondered how SEO's are able to promise their clients top page hits in 7 days, when I know the complexity it took to build my site.

The bottom line is this: These companies take your money and link their hundreds of other sites at you, many of which are unrelated to your product. It only takes them a minute. And obviously has fared well for them.

The good news is this: Search Engines (Google Leading the way) are trying to generate RELATIVE search info, therefore, these hundreds of UN-related links, will not favour as they have with other search engines in the past.

Therefore, these SEO's with massive link lists, will be bypassed in time by site owners with genuine links and GOOD content.

Use Bretts pyramid theme, create half a dozen link-backs to yourself from your subsites(each carrying main keyword + individual subsite site specific keywords.

Then focus on quality content for each of those subsites(all relative to topic of main site).

Last month, I knew I needed to find how to write for Google (who I did not understand), then realised they had already found me, and ranked me position 16(page2) for my favourite expression: "Salesmanship tips". At the time, I only had 1 link back, and had done nothing to deserve this other than having "Quality Relative Content".

Village- "Fear Not" - Build a Quality site, and when the wind of change blows these large "spam-link-lists" out of the window for "irelavant-links", then you shall be lifted up!

Soon, many of these Masters SEO's will suddenly find their lists wont work, then they will have to start again. This is where you have the head start; They dont now this yet.

Stay focused, Build a quality site, make your sub-folders into subsites linking back to your main. This will win the day!