>>On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:55:52 GMT, SEO Dave
>><seo-dav...@AMsearch-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:

>>[snip]

>>>>*yes, still devil's advocating here. But likely my last devilish post*

>>>LOL Well I've enjoyed the discussion, hadn't thought it through in so
>>>much detail before now. I've always known adding a link to my sites
>>>from my clients sites would hurt their sites, so haven't considered
>>>doing it, so not needed to think it out in great detail before.

>>Well - I know you lean more toward Google whereas I lean to more
>>toward optimizing for Google _and_ Yahoo both. Hence you would think
>>more about PR than I would. Iview PR as just one bit out of the Google
>>algorithem - and one that has been known to have a PR5 site beaten out
>>by a PR3 or PR4 due to other bits of the algorihem.

>Links are important to Yahoo as well. After adding links to a site
>recently (the one that gets no traffic from Google) traffic has almost
>increased 50% (~1500 unique visitors a day). The traffic had been
>stable for months at around 1000 to 1100 unique visitors a day before
>the new links.

>Other than the new links I only changed one page (after traffic
>started to rise) and so that page is not responsible for most of the
>new traffic.

>>And so this a thought about the unrelated footer link, along with one
>>or two others discussed between us in the past, is probably going to
>>be filed into the category of "you and I will have agree to disagree
>>on some bits".

>I don't have a problem with that, would be a pretty boring NG if
>everyone agreed all the time :-)