Thanks guys...I'm glad you all posted. I was actually in the middle of the first post and got stuck and just left off at the question, intending to answer it myself.

For new members, these guys have been around for a long time, 7-8 years and their message is the same...Just keep doing what we've been doing.

One of the hard things for me in this forum is coming up with new SEO stuff to keep everyone entertained. Selling SEO stuff requires everything to be new and cutting edge.

But that's contrary to "bombing". The Dombom method of SEO is to concentrate of the things that the SE can't change...They'll always like keywords in domain names, anchor text and page titles, there's really no way around it. They have to.

It's also a numbers game combined with optimization. You want to put as many words (re: profitable keyword phrases) on as many pages as possible, then link to those pages. We want to use basic SEO skills to make our use of these words and link gathering "optimal".

Let's put on our poker hats and look at this from Google's perspective...Our mission is to re-value links for the sake of ranking.

The first thing I notice is all the automation tools...You had xrummer and now Scrapebox which is very inexpensive. And now with ubot tons more people are programing automation.

If I were Google, I'd try to detect profiles, comments, forum signatures and bookmarking type links that are easy to automate. I think it would be pretty easy for Google to do this, as there are plenty of blackhat programs already that can. If we can find the footprint to place these links, so can Google.

If true, then contextual links in the main content of a page will be worth more. For example, a service like Linkvana will be more valuable, as the links are placed in posts, not comments.

Paying for articles to be posted on blogs will become more common.

Trading pages of content filled with links or restricted WPMU with other webmasters is a possibility.

So is a hosting swap like I tried a few years ago. A viable long-term plan would be to get 5 reseller accounts with totally different hosts, then trade hosting on each with 5 others, for a total of 25 different hosts. This would take some time finding the right partners, but could be a very cost effective way to expand a network.

Right now of the most effective linking strategies, I think RSS has the most long-term potential. The reason we submit and ping our RSS isn't to get the listed in the RSS directories. It's to get them in the directories AND THEN have other webmasters pick up our RSS from those directories, placing our RSS (and links) on their pages.

At least for a while, social sites like Twitter and Facebook can be automated and tied in using RSS. There's a little SEO benefit to this, but you can also automate getting traffic by adding "friends". Because they are so easy to update with RSS, any social site that also has the potential to automate adding friends is a good strategy.

I also suggest really mixing things up...Create PDFs, docs, screen savers, contests, software, podcasts and more, then submit. Email addresses are getting hard to come by. Instead of needing new email addresses to blast away at the same sites, go "deep and wide" exploiting various resources while only needing one email (or just a few).