Article Are reciprocal links dead

[the27offsuit.com]

they sent me the article in an email, wasnt stealing it, and didnt say i wrote it, just thought it was an interesting read

The article was sent to me from Web Stats Gold at http://www.webstatsgold.com

Not sure if you copy and pasted this, I am assuming you did...............but it is interesting to say the least. Just not sure if it has any basis. h34r:

[PPP]

Please don't steal other people's content.

[ozim]

The idea in the article doesn't make any sense to me. I just can't believe G would do anything to penalize links exchange. They may (or even must) do something against some very unnatural methods (eg. automated exchange networks) but not against links exchange as such. After all, penalizing links exchange would be nothing else but promoting links buying

[bazza]

Its pretty simple, reciprocal links will still count for something, they just wont count as much as it used too. There are many other factors that effect a sites ranking and reciprocal linking has just been discounted in a major way....

Please post a link to the original source of the above article. I'm going to delete the content in a little while, since as far as I know we don't have permission to reprint it here.

People have been yelling "Reciprocal links are dead now" for at least a year or two, and that's one of the first things that desperate webmasters think is making their site rank poorly.

[PPP]

Please delte the stolen article. It can be found lots of places, like

http://www.searchnewz.com/searchnewz-12-20...lLinksDead.html

Yeah, its just more of the same Chicken Little clucking that has been going on a year or more.

Come on guys lay off a little, 27 obviously didn't mean any harm by this, a simple "although I know you dont mean to but you need to delete this because it is stealing content" would work better than "stolen article" or calling him a thief. But 27 you can't do that bud.

On to the text links...
It seems like everyone has been saying this but i think its just talk. There is always discussions floating around about h1/h2 tags, comments, and others that just stirs up discussion. One guy writes an article and suddenly its an epidemic.
Just my own opinion