SEO/SEMs creating two-tier linkage?

[glengara]

From what I see over here most SEO/SEMs are either using blogs or piggy-backing on client sites as their linkage methodologies.

While the reasons for using them are perfectly understandable, neither method is easily scaleable and probably unavailable to the vast majority of clients.

Just seems it's the first time in linkage terms that there's been such a disparity between what SEO/SEMs can do for themselves and what they can do for clients...

[vincevincevince]

If their client's hadn't been well SEO'd in the first place; it would not be worth 'piggybacking' on them!

[glengara]

Those are mostly from SEO/Designer "hybrids", and footer links on client sites are one of the few areas that don't yet require some form of "protection", so very valuable.