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Originally Posted by nettrust
i don't think linkbacks from legit sites can do you bad. check out sites that has 50 mil inbound links like http://wordpress.org (just for example) |
True. And a lot of adult search results are dominated by the long-established TGP's and links lists which have thousands of backlinks courtesy of their submitters. The problems start when such models are downscaled and manipulated.
The biggest difference is that most adult sites are looking for link
exchanges. WordPress doesn't exchange links, hence the value of its outbound links to template and plugin submitters. Thumbzilla doesn't exchange links: all the inbound links from submitters point to the same page, whereas the outbound links are contextual and every one is to a different gallery (even although many galleries are on the same domains).
Compare that to sites with long lists of "friends", a format which doesn't remotely resemble natural/organic linking and which is simplicity itself for the SE's to spot. And of course such lists only run to a few dozen links, not the thousands in the examples above.
You are right that you are not penalized for inbound links, but that misses the point that most adult sites are looking for
reciprocal links. It's the same flaw in thinking which prompted someone to ask me in another thread yesterday if it could be a bad thing for a PR0 site to get an inbound link from a PR5 site. Even if the answer were simple, the question ignores not only whether the PR5 site might be damaged, but why the owner would agree to the link in the first place.
Also it never takes long for someone to pop up and make the obvious point that natural linking is (near) impossible for most adult sites. That is also true, but since the SE's make no secret of being on the lookout for sites which try to manipulate them, how can it make sense to deal with our reality as transparently as we do?
I suppose we should cover all the bases and there are always those who say but I did this, or I did that and my sites score well in the SE's. Well why not? Linking is only one factor in a site's score and not critical unless a site is actually banned. But the point remains that it is ludicrous to imagine that because we can't/won't handle links as the SE's want, they will change their rules for us and give us higher scores for doing the exact opposite.