In article <32rdh6F3orgf8U1@individual.net>,
BVanillaREMOVE@tibetanbeefgarden.com says...
>
> "Eric Jarvis" <web@ericjarvis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1c328f525a8628d98d9c9@news.individual.net ...
> <snip>
> > > Wouldn't be more valuable to me to have 10 pond sites linking to me,
> then
> > > 1000 random sites pointing to me because I manufactured the links?
> > >
> > > I don't think I am saying what I want to say, very clearly. Hopefully
> > > someone will understand.
> > >
> >
> > I think so.
> >
> > Bear in mind that the people talking about SEO aren't always the ones
> > doing it effectively, and that an awful lot of the commercial end of the
> > business is about getting paid to promote pointless adcert holders.
> > Promoting sites that actually have content or customers is an entirely
> > different matter.
>
> I think that is where my frustration is. I am no looking to bump my PR up
> just so I can say I have a high PR. I want to truely gain traffic, as I
> think I a very useful site. I think I am going to give up on this SEO
> garbage, and go back to my content, content, content model.
>
>
> SEO - smoke and mirrors. Don't throw away your money.
That's all there is to it - content, content content.
I'm #3 in both my desired search terms, and all I ever read on the
subject was the link from Google:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html