atlrus - 2:26 pm on May 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

pmac, you are wrong.

A week and a half ago (that is well after the last link count update) a website emerged from nowhere and took #2 on a keyword with 38,500,000 returned results, and the link count is only 19 links on google, 293 links on altavista and 0 links on hotbot.

Now, pay attention, I will say it again - this website showed in second position a week and a half AFTER the last link count update. And it moved a website which has over 5,000 back links.

If you are open-minded, this fact should be enough to show you that links dont matter that much. Sure it's good to have them - I am trying to get as much as I possibly can, but you cannot overlook the fact that there are other ways to do this.

Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention - the website I was talking about is not even a home page - it's an internal page of a subdomain! Something like : widget.gadget.com/widget1.html

Now beat that!