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Back linking Dead in 2012?

by viator
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I recently watched a video on back linking(non organic) completely bashing it. Saying that its a waste of time and should be avoid. I would post the video link for you guys but I didn't reach 15 post yet haha.

Any thoughts on this cause I would be interested to hear.
#2012 #back #dead #linking
  • Profile picture of the author KaplanT4
    Is it dead? If it did die it resurrected pretty quickly without me realizing...
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    They're taking backlinking out of the encyclopedia.
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  • Profile picture of the author DNAWRealm
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    Backlinking isn't dead. Black Hat Backlinking is dead.
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  • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
    I heard the internet was dead....?
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  • Profile picture of the author boosters
    If it is dead than you will must find those in Museum
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  • Profile picture of the author alina855
    back-linking is still a major factor for Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author aadi144
    Backlinking can never be dead.If it does in future then i guess doing this much of effort in getting ranked will be of waste.
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    Backlinks are more important than ever, great content still needs links....
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  • Profile picture of the author Kylie James
    backlinks dead? are you serious?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kreator517
    Backlinking is as important as ever.... its careless spamming that's out of play.

    i.e, if you have 100,000 backlinks and half of for them are for a long-tail local keyword, then you're sent to the bottom.

    Just gotta keep an eye on your anchor text ratios through webmaster tools.
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  • Profile picture of the author seofirst8
    Indeed,

    In today's blog post from matt cutt, he shared an experience of a company complaining Google of why his PR was dropped from 7 to PR 3!

    Reason Matt cutt gave was that there were some Paid Links pointing to your website which were passing link juice, we find that violating our rules and hence we reduced your PR.

    Hell, Yeah non-organic backlinks are now under the radar more strongly than ever!!!



    Originally Posted by viator View Post

    I recently watched a video on back linking(non organic) completely bashing it. Saying that its a waste of time and should be avoid. I would post the video link for you guys but I didn't reach 15 post yet haha.

    Any thoughts on this cause I would be interested to hear.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebMeUp
    Ha-ha, that video you watched, OP, must be from 2005. That's when link building was first proclaimed dead, and has been dying since.
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    • Profile picture of the author dhanakncet
      Originally Posted by Egrove Systems View Post

      Backlinks can be dead only if Google give up its search engine algorithm and random results
      yaa i agree your point.its not possible to dead because based on the google new updates only its to be possible for getting penalty or consider as a deadlinks.so based on the google updates only its to be perform.
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  • Profile picture of the author viator
    Ok so is using article directories is still of some benift or would that be a waste of time?
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  • Profile picture of the author Terry Kyle
    Originally Posted by viator View Post

    I recently watched a video on back linking(non organic) completely bashing it. Saying that its a waste of time and should be avoid. I would post the video link for you guys but I didn't reach 15 post yet haha.

    Any thoughts on this cause I would be interested to hear.
    Not true V - SEO is just going through a period of adaptation in 2012 to Google's latest changes. It's happened many times before and will happen again.

    Google has to use a series of signals to determine ranking and we in the SEO community (i.e. Google's arch enemy) monitor those changes, test and adapt.

    Search engines as we know them will always rely on some form of 'voting' or 'social proof' which therefore makes them vulnerable to manipulation - to a certain degree.

    Having said that, smart IMers and SEOers are always diversifying their traffic sources far beyond Google and you should do the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author cosmeticsurgerynet
    Not like that, google will provided back links to quality websites only .
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  • Profile picture of the author daweelmac
    Black hat backlinking is dead. White hat is very much alive!
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  • Profile picture of the author jimbo61
    I have been saying this since the days of Altavista, Hotbot, lycos, Alltheweb and more.. way back then.

    Search engines only have 2 things on which to rank your site.
    1. what YOU say about how good your site is and what your site is about.
    2.What OTHERS say about how good your site is and what your site is about.

    Looking at that simple statement who would you prefer to listen to and take most notice of The guy with a vested interest in telling you about the quality of his p[roduct, or others with no vested interest?

    All that has changed, and is changing is that Google is learning a little bit better at how to infiltrate the systems that are beating them (networks link sellers etc), and bringing them down, fighting hand to hand in a way they said they would never do.

    Links are not dead, but the days of buying a few sitewide links and ranking #1 have gone. manufactured inks have to be obfuscated in order to work properly.
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