How important are links?

[redeemer_spawn]

oh I can't imagine how is that one.,? Is it accident or what.,?

[coolguy27]

Nice experimentation pinkfluffybunny. That's cool. But as far as SEs are concerned they are looking for links...

[arturobraganza]

I think it may help increase SERPs and best of all, traffic

[e_marketing_india]

Originally Posted by pinkfluffybunny

Ok,

let's put the theory to a test.

Lets take a site built by a 14 year old kid for his mother (a friend of my wife's)
Cindy Lee's facial and nail institute

He wanted some optimization tips (free of course).

The site is not complete, did not have a domain name assigned until recently, and has never been registered with any search engines.
The kid is doing a fair job.

The site was spidered by MSN, without being registered and has the following keyword phrases in the top 10 or number one (I may hire the little bugger):

beauty school daytona, beauty school florida, beauty school daytona beach, facial school florida, nail tech school, facial school daytona, (there are about 30 in the top ten)

So you get the point. NOTICE THE SITE WAS SPIDERED BEFORE A DOMAIN NAME WAS ASSIGNED (an ip number is showing up in MSN link)

(without registering, without linkbacks, without tricks, without page rank)

Myth busted

This is really strange. Could you provide following details :-

a) keyword for which this unregistered domain is appearing on MSN
b) Geo location ie whether msn.co.uk or msn.ca or any other
c) IP address/domain which you saw under msn listing

[babrees]

Well, I can see that you do not HAVE to have any links in order to be spidered. I am currently working on a new website. I have not launched it yet and there is not one link to it anywhere on the web (to my knowledge <G>)

Google has it at #5 for keyword organic resources.

Site: organic resources co uk Obviously close the spaces and put the dots in. I do not want a link to it anywhere yet <G>

I have not submitted it or anything. Just started putting a few articles and affiliates on there.