I have read an article somewhere but just can’t remember about the stoppage or considering of Google to penalize all the link building activities – even the clean white hat methods.

Of course, everybody knows the technical terms of Google services or Webmaster’s Guidelines that whoever tries to manipulate (probably black hat methods) search engines or search engine’s results page(s) and stuffs then you are due to violate the rules and probably get penalized – (deindex, loss of page rank, low search engine rankings and etc).

Other’s say there’s a peak limit for every link building you do in a period of time, say 150 or less per month for us to stay clean and safe. Maybe this was also the reason for having my blog to lost it’s page rank as well as the low ranking position on SERPS. By the time I established this blog, I was aggressively doing a link farm and building like blog commenting, link directory submissions, article syndication, and forum siggies. For some reasons, Akismet marked me as a spammer. (ouch!) : (

The death of SEO was a boom before up until now. The problem is, Google doesn’t tell whether the bookmarks on a web 2.0 sites are organic or published by a webmaster.

In anyway, I think the whole point of ’search engine optimization’ is to play the GAME of the system, it’s by knowing how the search engines rank the sites and then setting up your site to match those. Things like domain age may have become more important because age is one of the things you can’t manipulate, but that still doesn’t stop a gamer from buying aged domains.

In whatever reason it is, Google is still dependent on the backlinks and backlinks – the way in which it evaluates backlinks may become more sophisticated, but as long as the BIG G relies on them, SEO’s will be able to find a way to game the system.