RonnieG - 6:54 pm on Nov 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

As I also posted over there:

Well, that's just dandy! The way other webmasters find your content to make a determination on whether they should link to your site is to find you in Google's index for a particular search. But because supplemental pages with no backlinks are rarely if ever in any SERPs, no one will ever find your unique and relevant content as long as it exists only in supplementals, so it never gets any backlinks. Therefore, the only way to get backlinks to improve page rank is to buy them, which is counter to Google's stated position that purchased backlinks are bad, and can be penalized. Google has created one gigantic catch-22 feedback loop with this approach, and by doing so, is actually encouraging link buying schemes. Sorry, but I just don't see how this can be good for anyone.

PS: Except that large corporations with many sites can inter-link between their own sites, and also "encourage" their large dealer networks to link to their corporate sites, artificially inflating their backlink counts. So much for the little guy's ability to make a living with natural SERPs any more. It's all big bucks and big time players, and realistically, no way to honestly move up the ladder for the rest of us, except to spend all our spare time searching and recruiting for backlinks instead of running our small businesses.