PatrickDeese - 3:50 am on Jun 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

Paraphrasing a conversation I overheard at pubcon:

Cars > Car Seats > Leather > Cows > Milk

You don't have to take too many steps before relevancy is diluted.

I think ideally, you would want to get links from sites that link to your topic in some way - but it is unlikely that Google has yet mastered the ability to determine where to draw the line.

I wouldn't have any problem thinking that a site links from "on theme" pages gets brownie points, but I doubt that "off theme" page links are discounted. Too much human judgement is necessary at this point.