I have read an article from Matt Cluts where he has stated that in the new year links are not going to count for as much as they do now. Which would be nice to see to remove all the link selling and buying and the spam link building tools. I do how ever forget where I read this but I was wandering your thoughts on this.

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How did you find this article in the first place. Just wandering

Neither “Make Money Online” nor “Affiliate Marketing Directory” are niches by the truest sense of the word, but your point is a good one.

I helped one client develop a site for “wedding favors”, and he used my methods to get to the top of Google and stay there and now publishes material on how to do what we taught him. His wedding favors sites do very well.

As a point of note, Google doesn’t care what your domain is, only that your url contains the keywords you are going after as far to the left of the url as possible. In other words, don’t pick domain name just because the name contains the keyword. Inbound linking counts about 5,000X more than on-site optimization, which is where the url is counted.

Cheers,

Ron

Regarding John getting props and Zac nothing, Zac is not here for fame…..John is. Sort of!