Whilst traditional methods of researching and subsequently contacting related websites for both one way and reciprocal links might offer limited success to your link-building efforts, it is a dated process, and one becoming ever more difficult to reap rewards from This notion is given further credence by the recent decision by Google–in an attempt to quash manipulations of its ranking algorithm through the sale and bulk buying of links through link brokers and automated submission software- to drop the PageRank (the formula Google used to rank pages) from many of the offending websites, blogs, directories and forums, rendering those links worthless Automated submissions and outsourced ‘black hat’ link building efforts haven’t helped matters and the whole ‘link building’ industry has been tainted with connotations of spam... from Internet Articles At iSnare.com Filed under: Internet Articles, Web Hosting