docbird - 1:22 am on Jun 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

bose wrote:

I am sure there are countless highly knowledgeable (real) experts out there who could not be bothered to go around begging for links. One would think their pages would gain IBLs over time, but they don't. With all that PR (page rank) hoarding paranoia out there, people just do not link out as routinely/easily or naturally as they used to pre-Google-Toolbar-PR era. Citation based accreditation used to make sense a few years ago, not anymore.

searching around hard enough, can find sites by experts in their fields who perhaps don't even realise value of inbound links (for search engine results), let alone bother to beg for them. Sites set up with SEO as a goal may well outrank them, even for lousy pages.

An end to the PR hoarding paranoia would be good (GG, if you stop by this thread, please note).