This is just common sense.

It's how linking has always been - you don't need anything complicated - it's easy to get links from enough high PR sites for any site to get decent traffic.

Most people won't follow that diagram anyway because it's too much hassle - most people are really lazy when it comes to linking. But that's fine because you can be lazy and still do really well.

I've created many reports and diagrams on this subject over the years, and whenever I think I should update them because of new web properties etc.. I change my mind because it's really still fundamentally the same thing Google looks for now as 5 years ago, and you can get that without anything complicated.

5 or 6 press releases 10-15 articles, a blog and a few web 2.0 properties and you'll make money in any niche.

The problem most people have is sticking to a plan, they do a little bit of link building here and there and then if they don't see immediate results, they start doing something else.

Constantly giving people 'new' methods for building links and interlinking just confuses the issue for most of them.

You'll get people now seeing that diagram and thinking they need to do that,but they won't do it fully or effectively and in a few months, someone will sell them 'the latest' way and they'll continue on that merry go round.

I know why some people do it, but linking is pretty simple and can remain that way for 99% to start getting results using methods that don't change every few months.

Trying to keep ahead of Google is great if you've got nothing but time on your hands, but it's not a great way for most normal people to build their businesses.

It is tempting to answer the constant calls of 'how do I get traffic', even when you've answered it 100 times already, and you know they'll pay for the answer again and again, so I don't imagine it's something that will stop.

As long as people will pay for an answer - there'll be people changing the answer and selling it to them.

Andy

Yeah, I was going to say: LinkWheel new in 2009? Before that people even called em wheels because of the spokes.

Odd.

Anyway, the problem as was pointed out is perfection, like having your KWP be your anchor link text 100% of the time. Ummmm.

Given the amount of computing power being G, I'm pretty sure they are very good at sniffing out certain patterns, especially when those patterns are near perfect and the same over and over.