ownerrim - 8:21 pm on Apr 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

re:"What bothers me:
1. You can buy sitewide links with totally unrelated terms and your competitor is toast. Someone could it to you. If you read this, links and anchor text are still the king, either directly or inderectly they make about 90% of the ranking. They can make or break you or your competitor. The prices will defintely go down now, so it's not expensive to nuke your competitor."

Are you saying that sitewide links are advisable, or inadvisable? I'm just wondering because I've seen a couple sites go to the top of the MSN serps using site-wide text links purchased from other sites. These same sites don't do well at all in google and yahoo though, which makes me wonder if google and yahoo can counteract this attempt to artificially boost position (game the system) a lot better than msn can.