An Ode to the Organic Link

A Look at How Organic Links Have Lost Value

Over the years Google has moved to "fight spam" at the same time Google's business development team has pushed to "make spam." The combination of those 2 (& pulling in additional non-link relevancy signals) has lowered the value of organic links.

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750 Pixel Wide Green

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