pageoneresults - 3:21 pm on Sep 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

Why link building is so much harder now?

If you're doing it via email, my guess is that your deliverability rates are very low.

If you're automating the process, my guess is that your success rate is determined solely on volume due to the email issues above.

Link building is no more difficult for me than it was 5 years ago. Its the same process I've used from the beginning. I'll be damned if I'm going to sit and chase links. Nah, I have better ways of garnering those things. ;)

I was under the impression that dubious incoming links would only ever be devalued, rather than actually hurt a site.

Many of us are. But, there may be some merit in the idea that a competitor could sabotage a site if the dubious links can somehow be tied into an existing link profile of the site being sabotaged. Guilt through association. ;)