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Old 08-26-2004, 07:55 AM   #46 (permalink)
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>>>Link pop over on-page definitely an important concern, as links are ultimately harder to manipulate<<<

I have to disagree with that links are easy to manipulate especially if you own tons of domains. Also make it easier for the competition to "google bomb" for a lack of a better term.

Say you own a hosting company you could just put your link at the bottom of all your clients pages, for example if i owned a 'concrete' co and owned a hosting co then i could put that at the bottom of all my hosted pages no?!
On that issue - how many webmasters own tons of working domains on different C classes? How many webmasters have a large number of clients on different C classes?

That's the point about links over content for ranking purposes - any schoolboy can overstuff their page with keywords, whilst far far fewer people actually have access to a network of domains across a high number of C class IPs.

Pedantic point over, though.
There is a shocker. Someone asks one question, and I,Brian responds to a different one. Wasn't the question asked about hosting companies and not webmasters? And if there is no difference, then according to what you are saying, anyone who is hosted on hosting company A wouldn't get much value out of having a link from another site that was with the same hosting company.

I am quite impressed with the vocabulary though.

I'm not understanding the question to well, but as to link vs on-page. .... Answer me this - if I asked you to put the keyword "widgets" on your home page 100 times, how long would that take, and what cost?

And if I asked you to get 100 inbound links with the anchor text "widgets", from 100 unique domains/IP's, each with a moderate PR, how long would that take?

Answer that question, and then continue the debate as to which is more open to abuse.
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