digitalghost - 8:47 pm on Aug 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

>> In the offline world, do you try to trick the phone company into putting your business name on the cover of its directory?

In the offline world listings aren't based on some set of vague quality guidelines (algos) either. Ya pays yer money and they add your listing. On another note, you can't trick the phone company into putting you on the cover, but businesses have been abusing the alpha sort for years. Surely you don't think there are so many business named AAA Whatever because it's such a catchy name? Same technique worked quite well in the Y! directory of old too.

>>does google eventually forgive for aggressive link building?

Certainly. I've helped people recover from bad linking strategies. You'd be surprised at what a few good links can do.

>>The anchor text / accompanying content was mostly identical.

That's something I certainly advise against.