Svetlana Gladkova (12/08): Smazzle,...

Google SearchWiki Does Not Influence Search Results but Already Manipulated

on Profy from 5 weeks ago

Smazzle, that’s a good suggestion but unfortunately I’ve seen way too many examples everywhere of people hiding their connection to a site they are promoting (the comments “hi, I’ve just started using the site … and it’s amazing, highly recommended” with the URL the commentator shows exactly that of the site mentioned are the most obvious examples) that I doubt we will really see such transparency.

As for casual commenters, my experience proves that one only gets a small number of such loyal supporters that will go as far as help you promote your site without you even asking - everything else is what you get from friends after you actually ask. I may be too cynical but I know for sure that the number of things that are actually natural is way too limited to rely on them.