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Originally Posted by PhilC
I don't know what your experiments invloved but there is good evidence to show that repetitive links do count. Google may devalue or drop repetitive links - I've put that theory forward myself, but they still appear to count even if devalued, and if they count just a little bit, then they are worth having.
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Certainly the issue of "theme/context" seems relevant. In this case, I would hardly be surprised if this forum ("internet", "marketing", "webmaster") was seen to be "on topic" for the subject of "servers".
HOWEVER, an important point to note is that John has ranked well for the term "ev1 servers" - which is a different ball park to "ev1.net servers".
At the end of the day, my argument is simply that almost randomly "link spamming" ie,
1/ posting in forums for the sake of posting only to get the sig link(s) up
2/ and also extensively cross-linking a network of domains -
are fairly pointless endeavours, and appear little rewarded.
Of course, I am mooting the point for discussion accroding to experience with my own sites - especially with interlinking my own domains. There was a PR shift, but little movement in rankings according to number of backlinks when off-topic.
In summary: A high number of backlinks from many different on-topic domains are far more valuable overall, than a high number of backlinks from a few off-topic domains.