So, I’ve learned a little lesson in link building…
Apparently, if you get too many links from legitimate sources too quickly, Google gets scared? I recently asked some of my SEO friends for some links to my SEO resume. I was sitting roughly around #17 for the term, and wanted to push it to the first page… but unfortunately, I’m now down to the low 70s. The only change I had made was to get some legit links from friends. I paid them nothing, because I’m cheap. Still, I’m not really complaining, or spamming the Google webmaster forums whining about what happened to my ranks. Just wanted to express something I had suspected all along. Google can’t really decipher paid links from legitimate links, but instead probably base their algorithms on frequency. I probably just spooked the index, and expect that it’ll sort itself out eventually…
Ironic though, what with Google appologising for Google Japan’s recent controversy of purchasing paid posts. Seems like even Google has been tempted by the dark side… I intend to purchase a black hat and a 20-sided die for Matt Cutts…