after this january dance i got a pr6 for my first page and pr5 on my other pages. about 60% of my backlinks are from guestbooks. at a time when i was really desperate because no one gave me good links it was the only way to get "good links". about 250 links from pr5 and some from pr6-guestbooks sites were enough to get a pr6, and here are the results for my traffic from google:
1) when i do a search on my site with google using the "similar pages"-command in the toolbar i get only 30 guestbookresults and 3-4 similar results! this shows me that the main theme for my website is not my most relevant keyword, but guestbooks. so when you sign guestbooks (no matter if you use your keywords in the link text) google will interpret it in this way that your site is about guestbooks! (why would i otherwise get guestbook-results when using the similar pages-command!)
2) my keywords NEVER appear in the top ten of the serp's although all results above me have lower pr! you don't believe it? sign guestbooks and you'll see! it's really bad, because my keywords are everywhere on my pages (title, meta, alt, filenames, url, link anchor, keyword density, just everything! i used brett ranking tipps)
i would do everything to get a pr4 instead of my pr6 if i could just remove this stupid links from the guestbooks - it was the biggest mistake i could ever make and i really advice everyone who is playing with guestbooks not to do it.
i better get a new domain - all my work since august has been destroyed just because i was so stupid to sign guestbooks
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