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The problem is that its going to take a lot more than those three algos to get them all. Look at Facebook and Twitter for instance. First I think it was Twitter that started targeting the bad apples, and not too long after that Facebook went after sites that promoted a "likes exchange". Using coins or all manner or paraphernalia to get people to use their systems. Even while that was going on, people were selling links, alexa reviews, facebook likes, twitter followers (and retweets). Now facebook is getting rid of the fake likes.

My only hole in this theory is that from the beginning, from the inception of these ideas, they never realized what the worst case scenario would be if their systems were abused. If they did, maybe we'd have less black hatters out there. But now it seems more to me like a mop up operation than spam prevention or clean up. They're working harder now to keep the net clean than they would have if they took better precautions when they started out.

(IMHO)

Exactly! We had the mother of all rain storms here this morning. Had water coming into my kitchen under my door - through my screen gate.... Wish he could have given me a heads up at least

I agree there. We used it mainly for site issues and things like that. But never really took it further than mindmeister. I miss working with gantt charts though. I haven't touched them since I got my diploma never needed to because I'm not working as a PM.

Good to know that they would work well together though (or just have thoughts echoed), it gives a few more possibilities to planning etc. But you can't beat the real deals when it comes to bigger projects.

Sounds interesting though, and worth a closer look I think. I've used mindmeister to work on plans for a marketing strategy, site planning etc. I think it would be great to use to plan on, and then use this software to set the plans as goals and then work towards them somehow.

I took a quick peek at the software, must admit it looks really good. Not sure how it would work with a smaller group like one or two people though, would it be financially viable to use that do you think? Its a bit like (or maybe not 100%) mindmeister with the time frame added to it, and maybe even using both would be a good idea so that things don't slip through the cracks?

I looked around a bit and found some info from seomoz and search engine journal, and it seems that the update is going to run periodically.


~ search engine journal It also has ideas that you can use to either check or fix the EMD you're having problems with.

and here is a study from seomoz about the domains hit by the EMD algo.

The best thing to do is get a link audit done to see where your backlinks are coming from. Even if its just to make sure that you were hit by accident. That way, when you resubmit, you will know about everything and everyone that links to the site. Have a look at content, social activity etc. and see if that can be altered or enhanced.

To me though, it looks like a rehash of what happened with Panda when it was first let loose. A lot of sites were hit that had no real problems at all, but in the end most of them recovered. Its just that this time, its targeting EMD's because its an exact match to a keyword being used. The update was rolled out to hit sites that put up EMD's to make a quick buck without considering content etc. But, like Panda, its taking a lot of sites down with it.

From SEOmoz, I found that there was a post they wrote in September where it shows the authority of an EMD slipping quite a bit yearly. Its just another example of rogue SEO's making life harder for the rest of us. What I've noticed is that they watch trends, and then do exactly what we would do, just plugging their sites with one blackhat technique after another, ranking their sites faster than ours, and in the end Google gets fed up, writes an algo, and kills us all regardless of whether or not we did anything wrong in the first place. It kinda sux actually.

I hope your site makes a full recovery

You know..... when you said Vulcan.... very tricky you are.

History is what makes us who we are. Its a part of us. I think that things that come from our past should be looked after, because they remind us of events that happened. its just a pity they can't keep it flying. It was what it was built for after all.

Why would you agree? Add a few facts so that we can get more insights.

How do you mean?

its easy to paint an eye though, it just takes a little time. lol when I started out, I couldn't draw a stick man, but I have improved. You should give it a go.