Thanks for your post. I would like to inform you all from my experience.

The things that you have told is good as per the guidelines from google.

But if anybody take these steps into consideration, they won’t see their website into the top 10 for their business area in their life time.

What ever the reasons, Good link exchange campaign with related categories will have some good result first. I am not sure how many sites getting into the top SERP’s for latest new media.

But i request everybody to do not create any blogs for your own and give a link back to your websites from every post.

This is the biggest mistake and google surely penalize.

Create your own articles with some good content (Don’t copy from others) with in your knowledge and put it in all article sites with your website url.Then press releases will help you a lot.

This is for your kind info.

VenkaT

No Idea Mike. It’s taking forever to update. I think they are either going to abandon the PR thing after what people have done to it, or they are going to come out with a new PR calculating algorithm wrapped up in even more mysteries.

Haha! I am glad the issue is resolved over at your blog as well as here

Hard to ignore your comment when you’re talking me up, which is always appreciated.

@David
We all know you for the humble person that you are – I’m sure Mohsin didn’t mean the other way at all!
The way you describe it in the comment here and the thread over at “the other Matt’s” blog just goes to prove your humility – honestly, I highly respect it – its not often to see a person of your stature having his head sitting perfectly on his shoulder.

I don’t want anyone thinking I’m overly concerned PR and what not, as I agree with many of your points in this post.

I hope you’re covering your mouth when you cough, because I think I might’ve caught a cold following your coughing on Armen’s blog.

Honestly, I didn’t know that you were manually penalized by Google until Karthik told me, then I looked at the post on Matt’s blog where you discussed the situation, but there he didn’t mention that he manually took care of your site. But now that you confirm, I’ll remove your link.

No hard feelings

I learnt a valuable lesson with my linkbaiting tactics, but agree with Karthik how my site had a manual penalty incurred, and that selling links was partly the reason.

Your post makes me appear to have been angry with Google, and that I think highly of myself. For the record, I’m just one humble person, who knows when I’m wrong and is the first to admit it.

I was wrong. I had my wrists slapped. I did all I could to make up for my wrong-doings, and was forgiven.

That’s all.