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Originally Posted by HHI Golf Guy
One more thing. A properly SEO'd site at the top of the rankings will survive 99.999% of any algorithm changes. Those sites that get dumped are the ones that try to be tricky, sneaky, and especially take short cuts.
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I don't necessarily agree with this. I don't do anything sneaky and this last November when Google changed their algo I dropped for several key phrases for a few months. The results from November until the Big Daddy update in my opinion was a joke. Sucky sites with no content or duplicate content were ranking ahead of me. The results improved once Big Daddy came around.
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Originally Posted by HHI Golf Guy
What I'm getting at is that writing real estate and real estate related articles and submitting them to ezines is not going to build you a ton of quality links - if any at all.
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I believe writing articles can be a good addition to a link strategy. I would rather take a diversified approach to this by getting one way links from a forum like this, reciprocal link exchanges, and one way links from the articles I write. The guys at Google, MSN, or Yahoo are truly the only ones who know for sure if these links are useful. The "SEO experts" can only make an estimated
guess. I would not spend your life writing articles but doing one here and there could help you and I don't think it will hurt you. I think it is probably more valuable than reciprocal linking. What are the chances a guy searching my referral link pages happens to be looking to buy a home in Cleveland, Ohio and finds a link to a Realtor there? None. So what value is reciprocal linking other than for search engines?