old_expat - 2:19 am on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Stop worrying about Google and stick to building relevant link exchange and great content for your visitors. Anything else and your taking Google's bait for their search engine dependence. Sure you may get in the Top 10 but what about when they decide to dump your site and you have no other traffic to rely on from MSN and Yahoo? :>~

I'll take these one at a time.

1 - relevant link exchange .. *exchange* seems the appropriate word .. could be a problem if Google's algo keeps getting tweeked ever more toward the bizarre.

2 - Great content. Some of my content (500 pages of it) is good, a few pages are great and the rest is probably average. Best sellers are pretty rare.

3 - Google's bait? Maybe, but I'll take free user traffic from wherever I can get it.

4 - Top 10 .. yes .. from #3 to #5 but liking #1 a lot better .. and doing about as well in MSN and Yahoo as in Google .. but 70% of my SE traffic comes from Google.