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andrewshim - 1:27 am on Jun 12, 2006 (gmt 0)
My advice to anyone who wants to hear it is much of the stuff you read about quality probably originates from Google itself and is beginning to seem like pure hype. Almost anyone involved in SEO will have a few examples of some total piece of crap site that gets to the top by buying thousands of links. Why fight it man. Despite hearing so much on why it's important to cultivate community networks and get people to "naturally" link to you - it's all about numbers. I kinda agree both ways. If I let myself get caught up in getting crappy links, then chances are I will pay for it somehow in the future. But if I don't do it, then I lose out to lots of crappy sites while I'm building quality content. The thing is, after that initial click when I land on a crappy site, I make it a point to remember never to visit that site again. What makes me come back to a site again and again is the content. I WANT to see what's new... So I suppose the best way is to play both ends... build good content and get 1000's of crappy links? LOL!
It just doesn't add up to me. However I have recently dumped my previous approach (ultra-high quality content, carefully chosen context relevant links, alt tags etc etc). Volume counts. If you can get 1000 links from 1000 crappy blogs you'll get a lot further than writing really crisp copy, and writing clean HTML.