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After all of the uproar with Google's recent updates in link building penalties, I am hearing even more from the Nuns of SEO about White Hat techniques and how if you just have great original content all will be right with the world. The truth of the matter is that it is impossible to remain competitive in difficult search verticals without SOME use of link purchasing or SEO aimed link campaigns. If you simply make a great site and wait for people to link to you naturally, your client will fire you before you get link #1. It is what it is, if I'm wrong tell me how.

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Matt,

Since it was a fiverr gig I just assume it is the lowest possible quality of plus ones so the test at the very least shows that IF it might work, you definitely can't fake it.

I have long since had enough Moz Points to get my hug and STILL have nothing. WHERE'S MY HUG!!!??

The best way to prepare for Google's house cleaning updates is to always try and stay as white hat as possible. If can try to avoid shortcuts and obvious shady techniques you will most likely BENEFIT from any such updates.

Think from Google's perspective, they want only the most legitimate and original content sites, so if that is you, have no fear.

Check this out

http://www.articlemarketingautomation.com/

Another victim of Google house cleaning

So, how many of you got got killed on the recent updates?

Well, 150 plus ones and a few weeks later, this had NO affect on my ranking

This tool is so slow and buggy I wish they would fix it.

Everyone has differing opinions on buying back links, but it is not my intention to discuss the efficacy of it here nor the morality. I am simply looking for good reliable service that will allow me to purchase quality one way high pr back links. Any suggestions?

Does that look right?

Is the SEOmoz RankTracker working? It has not worked for me in weeks

i like it. I could get those on fiverr 5 bucks each lol. While I'm at it you can have Jesus do a comedic greeting video card for your aunt!

I have been telling myself and clients for a while that you do not need to specially SEO things for different search engines. While I stand by this (staunchly) I can't help but notice how SLOW yahoo is to pick up my SEO updates and rank them as compared to google. Sometimes I see Rank increases within a day or two (or sooner) But Yahoo is still well behind in their caching and calculations.

I like option one the best. Make sure you optimize the title and description of the video, and link to the video on youtube accordingly. With facebook I like to upload it separately to cover more ground.

I'm going to try this on a throw away domain and report back. It is in a highly competitive industry, has a ton of "natural" paid and  article back links behind it with little ranking success in the past few years(was great in the early part of the aughts), this will prove whether or not g+ can tip the scales.....

VERY interesting

http://searchengineland.com/new-york-times-exposes-j-c-penney-link-scheme-that-causes-plummeting-rankings-in-google-64529

WOOPS

I think it is a waste of time and resources. Focus on quality content link building and fresh content. You will see better results spending your resources there.