lol Ben… Are you giving me a hard time?
Maybe I need a few of your magic bullets at this point, mine arent working as well as you may think.
I still maintain that I have not found a 100% guaranteed tactic that works 100% of the time. Links are the key factor, that is well known, but even persons who are seasoned in the “dark side” of link building and other tactics have hits and misses.
Greek, I agree with your comment 100%, but disectting Search Engine algo’s for every situation and variable has practicality issues. People doing SEO may be content with understanding the basics of the algo to gain some measure of success, present company included, without ever fully understanding every nuance of the algo. From a practical point of view, the time needed to fully understand it all might not be worth the effort when this time can be spent building more websites, exchanging links etc.