While I believe there is some truth to this, as in, if you have a FFA (Free For All) site, or a link farm where anyone can add links, then I could see where this would be detrimental to your rankings.

However, if you have relevant links on your page pointing to other sites similarly themed to your site, how can you be penalized? Who's Google to say how many relevant sites there are about your topic?

How could Google (or any other search engine for that matter) tell us, web users, who their friends are?

Suppose I have a website about NFL. Maybe I have a page that has every player listed, and a link to their stats - currently, that would be around 500 links. All those links would be relevant, and all links are pointing to unique content. How could any search engine surmise and penalize this?

Daily tasks can include reading emails, handling orders, advertising, promotion and list goes on. Very often at end of day you could have just as many projects as you started out with and quite possibly list grew in process.

Typically, on a day to day basis, many business owners end up putting most of their time and efforts into performing these mundane, every day tasks leaving little or no time for things that can help them grow their business such as marketing or promotion.

Of course, growing your business is a big part of how you acquire customers and make sales; but how can you focus on marketing and sales if you're constantly tied up with daily tasks that consume so much of your time?

The key is automation. Particularly if you promote electronic products, however automation is important for any type of products you market. It automates such routine tasks of responding to emails and customer orders allowing you to focus on things that help bring in customers and make sales.

Here are just a few of benefits :

- Customer questions can be instantly responded to creating satisfied customers who will be impressed with your fast, professional service.

- Automated follow-up e-mails will allow you to keep in contact with our customers allowing you to notify them of other products you sell which can boost your revenue.

- Automating your ordering process will allow you to sell your products or services at any time of day or night allowing for more sales, and more profits.

-Instantly confirming orders and fulfilling your customers' orders for electronic products like software and e-Books can produce happier customers who are more likely to buy from you again and again. The two biggest time consumers for online businesses are customer response and order fulfillment. Think for a moment how much more time you would have to promote your business if these daily tasks could be automated. What's best and easiest way to automate this process? By using Autoresponders.

Autoresponders are automated e-mails that are pre-written to respond to incoming emails that you receive from customers or visitors to your site. The beauty of autoresponders is that you can use them to respond to a variety of questions or information that your customers or viewers may have. They can assist you with most any email needs you have simply by setting up different email response addresses.

Here are two of best ways to utilize autoresponders:

1. Automate your customer emails