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As search engines have come to rely more and more on inlinks rather than on-site factors, they’ve become a lot smarter in determining artificial linking patterns, too. Meaning that you can’t reasonably expect any success in competitive niches if you’re still relying on your 1990s linking techniques

Isn’t it funny how prophecies have a knack of coming true sometimes? One month ago we did a cartoon taking a shot at Google’s hypocritical FUD tactics regarding paid links by fantasizing about what a pair of hardnosed mobsters would do to take advantage of this positively silly state of affairs. Now, it seems that a high profile company like Shopzilla has actually started to pay for link removal!

Quite a few blogs haven’t yet implemented the dreaded “nofollow” tag on comment links. While comments on these blogs will pass link juice nicely, there’s a snag: How are you going to find them? This ultra cheap software cuts it down to a single-click action

Unabashed by the ongoing, FUD dominated discussion concerning paid links as fueled by the Google self-declared Noevilers, this crowd has blithely launched a new link building service with a twist: Rather than pay through the nose on a monthly basis, as is customary, you’re only set back by one-time fees for any PR1-PR5 link.

What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology to detect said paid links. So can they? Well, if so, here’s some very revealing stuff - and remember you read it here first!

Here’s an excellent opportunity to gain linklove from Wikipedia in a perfectly legitimate manner. Lots of niches available that can be yours to cover for the asking.

A Russian black hat SEO reveals how to get 100K pages indexed in Google without spamming their links directly. Use at own risk.

With its controversial anti-paid links stance Google has managed to achieve what only a couple of years ago most people would have thought almost impossible: Provoke an industry wide outrage, accompanied by tons of bad feelings, as demonstrated in a turbulent session at SES San Jose.

Here’s the second part of fantomaster’s link building interview on Link Juicy, discussing major link building networks and what (not) to expect of them. Plus some critical remarks on the prevailing PageRank craze.

Peter Da Vanzo has launched a new blog focused entirely on link building, inaugurating it with an interview featuring fantomaster who explains a number of factors critical to any successful linking strategy.

Like so many others who haven’t renounced their brains by signing up for the Google Cargo Cult in the hope of eternal page one rankings, Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing takes exception to a slew of Google antics, publishing an activist piece you are encouraged to read and adopt.

Branding Google’s latest antics for what they are: a policy of Web Apartheid and unfair segregation of millions of innocent Web sites, born out of utter hubris, arrogance and disregard by the world’s most colossal corporate parasite for the very host they’ve been thriving on for far too many years

In their pervasive effort to make life as difficult as possible for just about anyone except themselves and their antediluvial ranking technology, Google is now wagging the index finger at reciprocal linking.

Now, you can get some indication why your story got trashed at Digg.

Determine a slew of links with pertinent Google searches displaying places you’ll likely want to get some inlinks from, all in speed demon mode.