steveb - 9:43 pm on Nov 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

"Get more links" doesn't translate into link buying.

If you own a website and have only one link to a page, that has nothing to do with buying links and everything to do with you structuring your website to not value a page.

Crawling and "on page" considerations are unrelated. If you (and nobody else) links to your wonderful content, it isn't going to get crawled at all. If you link to it weakly, it will get crawled weakly.

The real concern should be here is how Google's new bot is so poor in its crawling, and crawling decisions. They released this weakling idiotbot and still seem delusional in thinking that it isn't a disaster, which leads to Adam offering bad advice. It should be clear to everyone now, even those in their bubble at the plex, that quality backlinks are now relatively unimportant to crawling. (Get them, sure, but they aren't that important.) Volume of poor quality backlinks are what the new bot loves, and this has lead to the big degrading of the google index.

Redirect spam, that may be PR2 at best, with links from tens of thousand of blog comments get fresh crawled every day. Niche authority sites (and of course mom and pop non-authority sites too) don't get crawled very often even if they have high quality links like a dmoz listing, a yahoo listing, and a link from the most highly ranked site in the niche. A domain that has those three links should be what gets crawled most every day, not a piece of crap forum post that redirects that gets links from thousands of blogs that (if anything) should get it penalized, not enthisiastically crawled.