Thaparian - 7:12 am on Dec 30, 2012 (gmt 0)

Thaparian...I don't think link building is the key or even link profiles. Rather I think it is link velocity that is tripping up so many SEO's and their too blind to admit it

How about news sites? If there is a breaking news...it would gather links very quickly and after some time when the news is old, it won't get much links...not a consistent link velocity but still natural...

Anchor text variation is important...an average user is much more likely to link to a site with generic anchor text...and simple URLs...

I haven't been building links for last few years...only natural links...I got the directory submissions done way back in 2008...those links were created a bit quick I guess...could that be hurting the site now? I wonder how much data Google stores about each website...they index billions of web pages, there must be limit to how much data they can store/process...

For my site i think the anchor text is causing problems...way too many links with exact match/partial match anchor text...Google probably considers those links as unnatural and ignores them...