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It's a painful and frustrating lesson.

You can get an idea of your linking profile by using things like Open Site Explorer and looking at the quality of some of the sites linking in, and seeing if it all the same anchor text (a common problem). Getting links removed is another headache, so moving forward and building up a natural linking profile with good content is a good start and puts you on the right path.

You can also pay for 3rd party tools such linkdetox (google it) which will tell you exactly what your linking profile looks like and where the problems are.

Ouch!! The penguin updates are all about your linking structure. If you're getting hit, then it could be your linking profile isn't the best. Cheap outsourced seo generating low quality links tends to be the most common reason

I'll confess to not really understanding this. So it's a budget, which the opposition refuses to agree to, which has caused a stalemate, and closure of Govt depts.

So how I read this, is Obama's party doesn't have a big enough majority to get this through, which has to go through the Senate and the Lower house, which is a separate debating chamber.

So if this was a UK budget, it would be like the House of Lords refusing to agree to a budget and bouncing it back to the Commons?

Seems a bizarre way to run a country, but not that savvy on US politics. Is this an unusual situation, having the senate and the lower house being controlled by different parties?

It's all been going on just recently in Google land. They rebuilt their search index last month and renamed the algorithm "Hummingbird".

Apparently the largest algo change since 2001, although personally not seeing much in the way of any differences, either in traffic or keyword searches.

Now we have a re-run of the Penguin link spam algorithm, that is being named 2.1

If you got hit by the last Penguin in May, then hopefully this one will restore your rankings if you fixed any issues.

You get the lowdown from Search Engine World.
Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live

I think the name tells you all you need to know. "You get what you pay for?"

Unlikely to get fleeced by $5 services, and unlikely to get anything worthwhile

Work out your budget, and go talk to a proper designer. You could always look at places like getafreelancer or odesk if budget is low.

I'll think you'll want to spend more than $5 on your logo design!

Fantastic, there's life in the old batch file yet

I use win7 at home and work and really like it. Struggled with Vista, but 7 seems nice and stable. I'm one of those dinosaurs that always goes for classic settings, in an attempt to make it resemble Win95.

We've got Win8 on our accounts machine, and the new look just caused too much confusion, so I put a downloadable shell on it, and now it looks like Win7

To be fair, if I used Win8 regularly I'd no doubt get used to it, but it takes me so long to get a machine to how I like it, and then only reluctantly upgrade 3 years later. Maybe it will be win 9 by then

Don't believe him, I've seen his gaff...Barney Towers



You've pretty much described Stratford Town Centre though, apart from the

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I do like Stephen Fry

Nope, use interspire personally.

Very true Linda! And as I get older and wiser, I couldn't agree more

I'm just about comfortable with Win 7. We have a Win 8 machine in the office and I just can't get on with it.