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I am listening to Blind Guardian - Sacred Worlds. (You gotta love power metal).

I took out 15 at 118 apm. darned touchpad...

'nuff said.

have a good weekend.

Readwrite web..

Some interesting thoughts here.

I think its because it needs to be changed as regularly as the not so honest web owners and seo companies out there change tactics and find new ways to manipulate search engines. In the end, they are just trying to make sure that when you or I do a google search for something, we find a quality site that gives us the information we're looking for without having to sift through low quality sites that have nothing for us.

I don't really think that exchanges or even going as far as buying facebook likes is the way to go. Not only because its kinda unethical because in a way you're not telling the truth about a page or site's popularity, its also considered a bad thing to do in the IM world. Facebook has been taking down sites left and right of late that have been offering these services as well.

That being said, I don't know if they are nofollow or not. Its actually not that important either, as its still a link, and for natural linkbuilding you need a mix of both in order for it to look natural. If the coveted dofollows are the only types constantly used to link to a site, Google takes notice of it rather quickly.

Darn. On a similar note though, the name kinda caught my attention. You guys have got weetabix, we have weet-bix. Coincidence maybe? Bokomo

Its quite a large chunk going to Bright Foods though.

Well, they do to a certain point. Google is happy to overlook some forms of link building, but when it comes to creating more links a day that any normal person can accomplish, using software, buying links, certain link exchanges, they would devalue your site in an instant. Using too many SEO tricks in onsite optimization is a killer as well. Too many keywords in your title, metadetails or your content as a whole just angers them because there is only one thing they really don't like, and that's when someone seems to have gone out of their way to manipulate a search engine.


Forgive the reference to Scrooge, but Bah humbug. Many "gurus" from the netherworld have employed those tactics at one point or another, so its not really new.

One thing that seriously gets me angry is that some still think that a search engine is the be all and end all of ranking factors and go out of their way to do whatever they can to make sure they are first on that list for their given keywords, which generally means that they have to SEO like crazy. There's more to IM than SEO, there's more to getting sales than over-optimization, or writing content that is purely search engine fodder.

Getting a site to the top naturally is a lot of hard work, but its a slow race. You need to build trust, you have to create content that people want to share, you need to make yourself a popular resource in your niche, to the point where you are considered an authority, and then search engines will stalk you, because people in your niche are talking about you, linking to your content. Not because your site is over-optimized, but because you are interacting with people in and out of your niche.

My crabby 2 cents

Poor thing. I think its great that you decided to help the little guy even when you didn't know he was protected.

I can believe that some might use them, I mean webmasters would not use these if they didn't work in some form. For me though, they kinda put me off a site entirely. And then when you close you get that "WAIT" pop up. It kindly asks you to click cancel because there is something else they want you to look at. Thats usually when I make my escape.

Somehow, and I think it might even be some sort of malfunction on my part, but I feel that sites that use those tactics are only there to cold sell and try get you to buy things you don't want or need. So when I see a site like that, I'm out faster than it took my browser to load the page.