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You Heard It Here First!

Check out my blog post on “The Truth Behind The Big PageRank Slap” from Nov 7th.

While everyone and his dog was saying the slap was all about penalizing sites that were selling links, I said, “I also believe they hit “article directory” sites and downgraded their outbound links too.”

And what do we see in Dr Andy Williams’ latest newsletter?

“As I looked at more and more examples, I came to the conclusion that links from article sites are not worth the same “value” as they once were“.

Remember… you heard it here first! ;-)

Andy has some good tips on how article submissions can still generate traffic and useful links… check them out here.

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3 Responses to “You Heard It Here First!”

  1. MakingYouRicher review Says:
    December 14th, 2007 at 9:19 am MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks Neil for sharing idea with us.

    I was one of those who got sold that article directories are some of the best places to valuable links. I flooded them with articles filled with links.

    Now I know better.

    However, I have a dilemma…

    What kind of sites Google really respect that I can get great and valuable links from?

  2. Neil_Shearing Says:
    December 14th, 2007 at 9:38 am MyAvatars 0.2

    Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it?

    There are no sites you can easily get a “valuable” link from. That’s Google intention, anyway.

    My SEO report will list a few ideas though. ;-)

    Neil.