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Sorry, but hasn't Google already been trying to devalue their most fundamental component of the algo "links" themsevles to stop it being gamed so easily?

I'm saying that will increase your authority as an author, but that it also means Google can see you're building links to your own site through guest posts so might devalue them a little. Makes...

I agree.

But, lets say at the moment you have an authoritative site PokerAussie.com and you are the head editor. If someone writes a guest post and links to their own site than that link...

Lol. You've basically just argued my point for me in your example. You refused to do a guest post on the basis that they wouldn't give you a link to your site. This just shows that you're primary...

I also wrote about co-citation being part of the future of seo back in march 2012 way before Rand did his video and others followed like sheep..

Trying to Put my Finger on the Future of Google and...

Yes, so were natural links. But eventually these things get abused and Google changes their algo to devalue certain links to prevent the SEO industry from gaming the algorithm.

I don't understand what the argument against this is?

Are guest posts editorial links? No. Are the links in the author bio editorial? No. Should they count towards the search engine algorithm?...

I wrote an article on how google is going to devalue guest posts here:

How Google is going to Devalue Guest Posts in 2013 |

The short of it:

Links from articles with "guest post" in the...