Forgive me, for I’m late to the party. When changes happen on the SEO scene, I tend to take action before writing about them. Has anyone else noticed the recent trend? Content and on-page optimization seem to be once again playing a huge role in ranking. Six months ago, I could toss some auto-generated crap into flat HTML files with hardly any markup at all and a lousy linking structure, then bombard it with a few hundred thousand links and rank for whatever I wanted. The big G seems to be cyclic in its valuation of factors for ranking, and it’s back to the ole’ content game.

Look forward to discussing how delusional or mislead you think I am in comments.

-V