Rob Oresteen

This was a comment I posted on Brad Callen’s SEO Elite page. I figured it had some merit that it should go on my site as well. Content, content…

“Hi Brad - I’ve had SEO Elite and it’s made me money just being able to consult with a couple of companies about SEO, not even geting back links to their pages.

However, one question I have is about reciprocal linking. In the past , you marketed SEO Elite as going out and finding the top ranked web site’s linking partners and contacting those web sites and exchange links. Now, we all know that Google is trying to de-emphasize recips. Fine. But as you know, do a back link check on any site ranking 1-5 in Google for a search term and you find that almost all of their links are recips and that 70% of those are in the PR1 - PR3 range, Also, about half of all total links appear to be “off-topic”.

This tells me that Google prays for web masters to do one thing, but gives out rank on another. It appears that recips are ok. I understand doing a 3-way link scheme but not all of the people have several web sites to link to/from nor will they really understand it (at least not at first).

Also - it’s a known fact that Google lies about the links it has indexed for sites. For instance, on a highly competitive financial term, the #1 page had 24 links in Google. Yea right. These were ho-hum links, mostly 2’s and 3’s. Google can’t convince me that that used those 24 links to prove to itself that that page “was the most important” page for the term!?!

Please Google…funny, the same page had over 1,700 links indexed in Yahoo when I did a “linkdomain:url” check. I think SEO Elite had the Yahoo number at 700 or so. Why the discrepancy?

Anyway, I’m about ready to crank out a massive link campaign on one of my sites. I’ll let you know how it goes.

- R. Oresteen”

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