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The Fallacy Of High Pagerank Backlinks

In our efforts at making money online, most of us rely on search traffic, and as such know we need rankings – which means we need backlinks. Some of the more common ways to get backlinks that many of us are familiar are “profile” links and blog commenting. The idea is that you find high Pagerank sites & blogs that don’t use the “no-follow” tag, and create a “profile” or a comment. It is often taught as an “easy” way to get high-value backlinks for SEO purposes.

In addition to a number of tools such as xrumer, Comment Kahuna, Scrapebox, etc., there are plenty of services that sell lists of sites, and will even place your links for you – often very inexpensively. Many of these packages and services are promoted as “High Pagerank Backlinks”.

However, most sites and blogs with high PR have that Pagerank on their home (index) page. Inner pages will generally have much lower pagerank.

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The Keys To Sustainable Income

The focus of this site is on making money online – sustainably. I don’t know if it’s a ‘sign of the times’ in terms of the whole economic picture, or simply human nature, but there seem to be an awful lot of “Magic Bullet” products being launched & promoted. Perhaps it’s the lure of “instant” income, or “money for nothing” i.e. no work necessary. Unfortunately, one thing all these ‘solutions’ have in common is that they aren’t sustainable.

Shortcuts, “Black Hat” methods, loopholes – all of these eventually fall victim to Google’s never-ending efforts to improve their search results – and Google isn’t the only one. This invariably results in these methods or products no longer working. For those seeking the faster, easier way, the reality is that it often takes far more effort having to constantly chase the next loophole or tactic than it does to do things “right” from the beginning.

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