Hissingsid - 2:09 pm on May 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Are you analysing what the new top sites have done to be so blessed by the new shake up?

In my niche its links links links that have done it. Doesn't matter if they were bought, exchanged or given away backlinks with the right mix of anchor text does it.

Others have commented that there research shows that internal linking has been down weighted. This has skewed the emphasis massively towards backlinks but what I am seeing is quantity not quality and many dodgy practices being rewarded.

I think that my main site had a particularly "good" internal link structure under the old algo, now it is not so good and although I have quality backlinks and some quantity I am not competing with sites that are buying backlink packages and/or having folks in 3rd World countries getting them links and $1 a chuck.

I've been trying to get more backlinks but as I am doing others are getting 10 times as many dodgy ones.

Cheers

Sid