Don’t buy links but bait them in Dig that’s ok. The Matt Cutts attacks were getting boring the paid links debate is boring I am over it but clearly thousands of SEO’s are still up for the fight. I have been doing this stuff since 99 and its always been the same story. Find an easy way to get links and the search engines will find a way to neutralise them. The social media optimisation link baiting methods are dangerous in my opinion and if they truly are endorsed by Google they are hypocritical. I must say that I did not exactly hear a google representative say that link baiting is ok they just peep towing the same old line “write great content and people will link”. Links are hard to achieve naturally and that why there is such a big weighting place on them in the ranking algorithms. I think that social media optimisation has much more appeal to it than just a link baiting tactic. Watch this space because social media optimisation (or social media marketing) is only going to get bigger and bigger. There is no denying the popularity of myspace, youtube, dig, technorati and there is no sign of it slowing down.

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