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Well today is National Start Up Day in the UK.

Apparently we have had over 422,000 businesses start up so far in the UK this year which is quite amazing.

It would be interesting to see the stats for how many make it past the first year, and then the second, but at least it appears to show there is plenty of enthusiasm and desire to start a business out there. The more cynical side of me thinks a lot have may have been forced into self employment after redundancy or failure to source full time work. But maybe it will work out for the best for a lot of people, who may have not considered going it alone otherwise?

So if you've started in business this year, regardless of whereabouts you are, the very best of luck!

Make sure you take advantage of any free resources or support networks you can. If not this one, there are plenty more out there!

This is a fascinating area at the moment with buckets of confusions and conflicting opinions!

This is my opinion.

Are links a good thing or not? Yes they 100% are, have been, and I've no doubt will be for a long long time to come!

That is assuming you mean link building as god (ie google) intended. ie I think your content has changed my life, so I shall now link to you and spread the word..

Linking to me because I linked to you, although not bad, gives you very little benefit these days (reciprocal linking).

Going out and generating lots of sexy anchor text links all with an anchor of cheap printer inks pointing back to your site is bad bad bad.

Spending $50 and getting 500 crappy directory links is bad bad bad.

Having quality inbound links is good. It is not the be all and end all like it used to be, but it is still good.

Link building now (and arguably always was) is all about building a natural link profile. If I feel the urge to link to your site from my blog, I'm unlikely to link with an anchor text of "cheapest printer ink" but ,more likely to link using your website name, or maybe Rays Inks

Make sense?

lol excellent

coding wise no idea, but I guess its a just a link above his head which autoruns a script.

Couldn't agree more, but the downside is this takes time, and time is money. Hence why so many people prefer to game the system.

After leaving my beloved XP and running Vista the dog, I'm pretty impressed with Win7 and in 64 bit, it seems to run well, haven't had any issues and my laptop is still nice and quick.

But I am a dinosaur and always go for windows classic settings to put it back to a familiar look and feel.

I'm not sure I'm ready for a whole new windows look, and interesting what you said about non tablets. So theres no way to customise it to a classic look?

Do you get the impression this is geared for tablets rather than laptops or PC's?

Great feedback though

It's got my vote! I'm telling you, when I'm 70, feel free to plug me into the matrix

Can I have the millionaire 25 year old rockstar program please

I'd say necessary no, but it's going to help once you are listed, and not just with your google listing.

Did you do this as an experiment?

I'm curious because after all the publicity of the Google Panda updates, I don't know now why anyone would deliberately publish duplicate content? You are going to potentially penalise yourself.

As for which is deemed the original, I'd refer you back to your own post about duplicate content. Personally I'd say it's domain authority, and as blogspot is owned by Google, it's always going to do well.

It wasn't me!!

I do wonder if the Groupon team wish they had taken Googles amazing offer of $6 Billion back in 2010.

Since floating, Groupon doesn't seem to be doing anything spectacular, and in the UK they have incurred the wrath of the Office of Fair Trading, and given a dead line to put things right.

I don't understand how Groupons last quarter results show revenue for $569m (