trillianjedi - 9:40 am on Jun 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

edit_g - that was the kind of discussion I was looking for.

That's actually what I've been doing (or has been happening naturally). We're getting links from authoritative on topic sites.

I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience of competing pen against sword like that?

Keeping my own backlinks topical and relevant I'm unlikely to hit the 3,000 odd that I'll need.

So the real question is (numbers for example only), does 1,000 topical themed anchor-text backlinks from on-topic websites beat 3,000 script-kiddie anchor-text backlinks on personal homepages? I mean that in a "all else being equal" type way, although we can forget about PR here. This is about quantity, not quality.

As far as I can tell at the moment, the answer is no?

TJ