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This is the big beef everyone has at the moment. In theory, they should ignore any irrelevant links like they used to.

To make it worse, unlike Bing who have just launched it, there is no "disavow" tool in google, ie I don't want to be linked any more, meaning you are left to try and track down the cause yourself, it's nuts.

In WMT, look for any high volume of links from one domain. In theory, this shouldn't really matter, but if it's a ropey domain, then contact that site owner and ask to be delinked (if they listen!) Or look for high volumes of the same anchor text, this seems to be a trigger point, especially from single domains, or closed networks, forum profiles that kind of thing.

Anyone who has outsourced any SEO in the past few years and wasn't really aware what was done, or have a list of the links they created could potentially be in trouble! Unfortunately hysteria seems to be fuelling confusion, and peoples businesses are suffering.

Did a post on Negative SEO here which may be of interest.

Got to be honest, after convincing myself the country would be holding its head in shame in the morning, I thought it was fantastic!!

Build a statue of Danny Boyle and call off the hench men

Did get lost in a couple of places, and did wonder what Abraham Lincoln was doing there, till the commentator said it was Brunel

Loved the 007 spoof with the Queen, and Mr Bean with Chariots of fire Thought he got our mickey taking sense of humour portrayed about right.

Well what did you think? Did you breathe a sigh of relief, or did you think it was terrible? Be interesting to see what the perception was outside of the UK?

Very nice, but will it tow a caravan?

Can see why they wanted to do it, starting at 20:12 but it does seem a bit late

ecademy.com remember them?

There was a time when ecademy was on your short list of business networks and forums to join, especially for new business owners.

But it's focus seemed to be on paid membership, and the level of spam and constant sales promo's seemed to increase. With the rise and dominance of Facebook, and even Linked In, ecademy seemed poor value compared to the free and large social networks.

Now you can include Google+ and a multitude of Business Forums like this one. I'm a paid up member of a few forums, but I'm not a fan generally of subscription based networking groups, and the content has to be really compelling to consider it.

There are so many free and pretty good quality options around, networking groups need and should find otherways to monetize, rather than relying on outdated subscriptions.

Ecademy members seem to feel the same and their revenue has plummeted, to the point that the company was sold in November 2011 for a token sum to triumphant events, run by an Australian entrepreneur Daniel Priestley who has taken over as MD of Ecademy.

He has responded to some fascinating blog posts, and been quite frank and honest about Ecademy, admitting there are serious problems, but is determined to rebuild it.

"In Autumn last year I was appointed as MD. This was because Ecademy was in urgent need of technology and funding solutions...

...Revenue from subscriptions, sponsorship and advertising has diminished over the last 3 years. At present, no one draws a wage from Ecademy, no one has any support staff (which makes it hard to stay on top of the dozens and dozens of messages) and many expenses are absorbed personally by the team. So it's important that we focus on the issue of funding.

When I put it like that, it might seem that things are pretty bad however that isn't the case either.

Ecademy has a rich 14 year history. It has exuberant and passionate fans. Ecademy plays host to 500,000 member profiles and 130,000 blogs. It has 3 million unique visitors a year who visit our profiles and blogs..."
Full post from Ecademy

Any company that can't afford to pay the wage bill is in trouble, and the current climate will make it tough to convince business owners to pay for something they think they can get for free elsewhere. But they do seem to still have an impressive following, or at least on paper.

I guess time will tell.

What does anyone else think, have you or are you a member of Ecademy? Do you think he can pull it off?

credit - blog.tribulant.com

Of course they do, it's Africa! I'd expect to see at least a Giraffe if I looked out of the window in the morning

"Facebook has reported a $157m (

Hmmm, hopefully we've all moved on a bit since then, mind you no doubt plenty of Americans think we all walk around in bowler hats

Well countdown is on now for the opening ceremony, I'm actually quite nervous! I think it's a collective pride versus humiliation feeling, shall be watching from behind the sofa... Come on Danny, you gave us Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionare, do the biz

Hopefully the world will be in awe at British creativity, ingenuity and organisation... and not ridiculing us...

It's static content in the fact that only you that can change them, ie they are not open to comments or feedback.

Maybe start a blog as well You might get the bug..