You may have gotten some good links in the past, but don't count on them helping you forever. Old links go stale in the eyes of Google. Do you still get links to old content? Tell us why you think that is . Google's Matt Cutts responded to a user-submitted question asking if Google removes PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist (for example, GeoCities pages that have been shut down ). The answer to this question is unsurprisingly yes,