SEO = Selfishness !
Seriously it is 
! From the time I began to read articles or do SEO for my website’s, my thoughts have changed a lot. If a guy asks me to link to his site I hesitate, even if he is my good friend,
Say a guy know about a nice usefull website but he doesn’t feel that good linking to it , he adds tracker to the link or remove the hyperlink itself or add “nofollow” tag just because he don’t want to increase the other guy’s Google PR 
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Recently a group of people from Seochat forums left the forum because they added “nofollow” tags to links in the user sigs, may be DevShed needed to increase the their rankning .
People used to link to sites because they liked it, but now they link if they have certain PR (ranking) and linkback to them . I do think that Google’s PR is creating a competetive mentality in webmasters.
On the other hand one can’t be blamed entirely too. Webmaster do all the hard work , link building, SEO, pay for ads and what not for a good ranking. obviously they should get a price to link from their website.
Hmm, what do you think ?
November 23rd, 2005 at 6:47 pm
mmm… i link to all my friends
strange to hear ppl doing that.. come on.. PR can do such things
November 23rd, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Actually I quite agree with you and on the other side people are being aware that there is something called as PR and it helps the sites..
So sometimes more of awareness makes people selfish..
November 24th, 2005 at 11:48 am
thats sad. i dont mind showing a link back to a site, provided the information is useful. mind u my site is not that popular, so i wonder if i will cahnge my mind :p
November 24th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Hey Sree.. cool skin there .. great work
… I do understand and agree with you on the mentality created by google :P. But I personally add the links to all my friends. Also I plainly reject if someone requests me to add his/her link to my blogroll in return . I really don’t understand the term ‘link exchange’ pretty common with people. Blogroll is meant to add the blogs of people you visit and not to increase your and others PR.
November 24th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
hmm… I link to my friends and some of the blogs that I like reading..
November 25th, 2005 at 9:01 am
Search Engine Optimisation isn’t about just having people link to your site. You need good content to get good results, if the content is good/useful then chances are people will find it and link to it anyway.
More info about real SEO:
http://alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
November 28th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
i link to those blogs which i like and are updated regularly, irrespective whether they link me or not
November 28th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
He He , I gues i’m only the bad guy here ^_^
November 28th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
I agree that it is not the only thing to have but it sure is a very important thing, though after jagger update you can say that ^_^, he he.
December 3rd, 2005 at 11:08 am
Hmm… I link to all my friends too .. What I believe is that if your site have nice content, others will link to your site themselves .. You wont have to “request” them to link to your site ..
December 3rd, 2005 at 11:10 am
Yaar .. Dont curse IE again but the sidebar items are appearing alienated from the sidebar divider .. I thinkn its align attribute collision for sidebar and sidebar items .. I am having 1024*768 resolution and using IE . …