How Long Can This Link Situation Last

Everyone and his brother can (and will) figure it out

[mas90guru]

Is the quantity of links really going to stay around?

I mean - it is super simple to use the Google toolbar and find out all of the backlinks for a competitor.

Assuming a large number of these are disguised link farms - how long before ma and pa America catch on.

I think it is pretty reasonable to assume that most of these link farms would freely exchange links.

So, what is going to be the next hot ranking tool?

My vote is on constantly updated content and pages - perhaps in conjunction with PR8 or higher inbound links.

Regards,

Wayne

[edited by: rcjordan at 1:55 am (utc) on Mar. 3, 2003]
[edit reason] sorry, no references to your site. [/edit]

[jamsy]

I personally suspect that if this causes Google a problem with displaying relevant serps then they will disable the pagerank calculation on the toolbar.

[caine]

Google's algo is extensively based on the link factor, and most of the other crawlers use it too.

However, its what emphasis they put on it, that places them in their various corners. Most use the link factor, for site association, but G lets two seemingly unconnected sites rank better due to the PR link factor, which degrades, G's serps. I personally think it is the downfall of the Algo, and the fact that the algo is so extensively based on PR, then i can't see how they will rectify it.