LOL, thanks Lori. I'll admit it, there's something to be said for having gotten started blogging in 2002.
But the quality backlinks are still out there to get; all it takes is time and a lot of decent blog posts. (Day in, day out, for years ... not a project for the man in a hurry.)
That's actually one of the reasons I love blogging, it creates what one of the big domainers calls "defensible" traffic. The only way for people to compete with me is to do what I do, which is blog pretty much every day in a quality fashion for freakin' years.
There's a few doing it, but the vast majority don't have the patience or the persistence. They come, they flash, they dwindle, they go. Somewhere during that cycle, usually early, they get impatient and start looking for traffic tricks. Like, say, blog directories.
