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This is great!!!

I keep getting lost trying to find the threads that I have posted to...

What is wrong with statistical answers?

Supply the client with:

A chart of new links

A report of what you are doing to GET those links

A plan for getting more good quality links.

Google no longer has a sandbox, Google also no longer has a quarterly "dance"

Currently a new site can be submitted and indexed in just a few hours.

You can submit direct using Google webmaster tools, and for extra juice I would get links to the site from another well trafficked site.

SERPS  show up instantly if a site is crawled fast enough, I have seen forums get indexed in five minutes from a first posting.

External ranking factors have ALWAYS mattered. Link farms have never been seen as whitehat SEO.

I'm not worried that they are cracking down on forum links, it is obvious that the guys who put a damn signature link in every damned post are trying to manipulate SEO. In many of the forums I have seen this the other 1000+ people in the forums make fun of them and taunt them for doing such.

The broader theory of this whitebaord Friday is don't do SEO for SEO's sake do SEO for HUMANS sake..If your SEO plan annoys humans then you will be penalized. Negative SEO has also been around since the fun days of  Google bombing...

Google does not want to control the internet, they just want us to STOP trying to control the internet  

Every time we zig, they change the algo to zag...

If you have used links farms and paid directories in the past stop using them take down what you can, gain new varied text  links from other sources & when the penalties hit, watch your site rise as other fall...

It should not be hard to put together actual numbers on link building.

I use Google Webmaster Tools.

So far it is free & shows me the most information.

I ran it last week & is showed 76 domains with a total of 2000 links.

This week 76 domains & 2098 links.

Do that with what ever software you are using.

ALSO include the links you have applied for.

You don't have to write an essay use a chart with numbers.

6 Guest blog posts.

5 links from community directories.

100 links from fiver.

If he wants to know exactly how many links will gain him 1000 more unique hits in traffic, again that is a conversation that should have been had before you started with this client.

Client expectations are the job of the vendor.

If he is a retail client then he wants his phone to be rigging more often.

Your job is to get the site to a place where it is.

The site needs goals.

No use in ranking if there are no goals...

Every business needs goals.

If he sells blue widgets then his goal is to rank for blue widgets.

If he wants to start selling green widgets then new goals are to rank for green ones.

(Final goal is go gain orders for those new shiny green widgets)