Most of us are not Matt Cutts of Google who has everyone and his dog linking to him.

Commenting on blogs is unnatural because you have to look for non no-follow, posting on forums in not natural because everyone has the same “Make a million dollars ask me how” link in their siggy so I sure know why they are posting and it has nothing to do with wanting to visit with all their buds online.

Submitting to directories is unnatural because your submitting, heck submitting to google and waiting 6 weeks would be unnatural because your ASKING to be indexed and then you’re gonna be so far down the SERPS that you might as well never asked to be indexed to begin with.

Sucking up to all the “online community” leaders is unnatural because you don’t really care about that community you just hope someone puts you on their blogroll.

Writing articles at the article sites and the lenses/hubs/barrels are just backlinks.

I’ve had the occasional blog get indexed for 3 days without any incoming links but it vanishes quick and never comes back.

If you want natural links you need to think up a better system because at the moment the internet is littered with blog farms and crap directories, and a zillion and a half “submit your site” here sites.

Maybe if CONTENT was more important than LINKS instead of linkfarms we could all just type a bunch of nonsense sentences and call it CONTENT.

All that being said, I love googles search engine, but unless you can come up with a system that does not entail actively looking for incoming links to your website which by the way you WANT to get listed or you would’ve just wrote it in MS Word instead, you are going to have to accept the fact that all the most of the natural links are not.

They are just natural appearing links between friends, associates, and other desperate webmasters trying to stay in the index.

Thanks for your time

My Only Self

As John Dennett (above) mentioned, a few questions about their thoughts on the recent PageRank sculpting / nofollow debate gets them off the phone pretty quickly.

Search engines and SEO professionals emphasize having good quality relevant links that match the content of the pages. Despite that I see many leading websites obtaining hundreds and thousands of low quality links from unrelated websites – paid and natural – managing top rankings on search results.

Most leading SEO sites have over 50,000-1,00,000 external links. Now how and why would a small cooking website in Bangkok would like to link to a leading SEO site in USA, unless they are a client, which seems unrealistic since their high fee. It seems the name of the game is number of links not their quality. Link Ad Networks seems to be doing good business with many links costing as high as $100 and more per month.

Is posting to SEO blogs like yours can increase my rankings, even though you have “nofollow” attached to my URL. Google claims to follow “nofollow” strictly and would not crawl those links. By not having the “noindex” on the posts, does that mean when Google will index your page it will index and associate my link to your page as well, and pass some link juice if my site talks the same subject. Please correct me if I am wrong. What if being a SEO professional with a passion for fishing, I drop my website links on my signatures on fishing forums.

Thank you.
Ashish Kothari

Haha, these people or so called professionals really make me laugh,

When ever I get a phone call, I answer the phone call, and respond with, “Tell me something about Canonicalisation” they usually hang up.