I think that in 2010 goes on, the way of on-page and off-page SEO are going to change as we think it. I think we will see a transition to client metrics in deciding SERP results. That combined with increased personalized results and we’ll be seeing a large molding of the users experience with Google and the other SEs. Each search result will not be made alike, take a look at things like user involvement, bounce rate, bounce time, etc… Put your energy on a better site all around, and I think you’ll see better results in 2010.

Lately I have been doing a lot of directory submissions to build up my backlinks. I write an article and then submit it to the following sites for approval: 1. Ezinearticles.com (constanly crawled by google) 2. Goarticles.com (huge site, lots of traffic) 3. Rysite.com (tweets articles + quick indexing) 4. Articlealley.com (easy to submit to) 5. buzzle.com (has a high PR and is very popular) By submitting articles to those sites, i have recieved a lot of traffic. Especially from rysite.com because i get traffic not only from my article, but they tweet it to a following based on your keyword and as a result I get traffic from twitter as well. Hope that helps!

Building links to your site isn’t worth the sweat and I’m happy to see Mr. Cutts took notice of it.

Deep links are definitely of value, Tony — all the more so if the sites doing the linking have page rank.

A question on SEO Value:

This new genre site – sffmeta.com has ‘deep’ links to all the book reviews on my site, The ZONE. There’s also one covering movies reviews – mrqe.com – that ‘indexes’ my VideoVista webzine.

Is there much SEO value for my sites from such ‘meta-critics’ sites?