What is the future of a general link builder?

#SEO #Q&A: SEO Chat Forums - What is the future of a general link builder?

Quote: Originally Posted by eaglehdr What should an inexperienced SEO (who had been working as a link builder for a year for a software house) do if he wants to work as a pro Seo? Over the past couple of years google has increasingly devalued many types of links. Reciprocal links, blog comments, forum comments/signatures, profile links, directory links and others. Then last month Google implemented the Penguin update that further damaged the value of these links. In my opinion, there will be a much lower demand for these types of links and the money that funded that work will move to content development or some other area. If I was younger and interested in a career as an SEO I would invest lots of time to develop my brain so that I would have a detailed understanding of SEO strategies that include how to organize the products / content on a website into categories and how...

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