Thanks for sharing. Wonder which article you recommended in the posted link? Most of the links are death links. Only found part of the ideas from Bruce Clay blog useful. Quoted here:
Here are some of things that made Jim’s list of dead tactics:
+Submitting to SE is long dead. They find you via spiders following links.
+Meta tags and on-page optimization without backlinks is dead.
+Google dances are dead. Google changes on a near daily basis.
+Linking a bunch of your own sites together doesn’t work.
+Link trading is dead. If you link your 500 sites together it’s a giant flare to the engines that you’re an SEO.
+Buying high PageRank links is dead.
Four trust factor qualities are:
+Do you have unique content?
+What do you link to and what are their link neighborhoods?
+Who links to those who link to you?
+Is your link found within the content?
The search engines are trying to better analyze what are the clustered Web sites. Use the ‘similar pages’ option in the SERP to see your site’s neighborhood. The engines want to map the neighborhoods and see who is linking to whom. It’s not just a link from that site, it’s who else links to that site that linked to you. Think neighborhoods, not links.
Source:
http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archiv..._strateg.html/
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