I have recently posted about my experience of link building. In continuation of my article, ideas on the future of link building expressed by Abhilash just prove my own conclusions - link building is and will be just a waste of time, you will not achieve the desirable effect by adding your website to directories, submitting press releases, contacting webmasters for a link exchange and leaving your signature in forums and blog comments.

To summarize the observations in the article: websites will have no way to gain links, but buying them (and taking into the account many things to make that link work for you) and getting natural links. Yes, Google has progressed greatly and is very good at spotting and closing any flaws that webmasters are lucky to find when working at the link popularity.

SEO is not likely to last long since now. It simply does not work. Webmasters can work at their websites improving the quality of content, but I think ‘big companies’ will take niches one by one leaving individual webmasters no space for activity.

Summary: I have an impression it is time to change the industry. Or at least it is time to look around for other kinds of projects.

Those webmasters who started 5-7 years back have advantages over those who joined the game 1-2 years back. They have more online property and space for manoeuvre.

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