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Hi Neilho

Thanks for the input. We have to be careful about naming and shaming, as we end up with yet another legal letter for our notice board

The directory in question may or may not be a scam, but this particular scam is very easy to avoid. Never agree to anything from a cold call and never pay for anything you are unsure about.

Do 5 minutes of research.

In this case, they want

There's a great article on the beeb this morning, showing the goldenage of banking and charting it's change from cautious banking to reckless risktaking and short term gains.

BBC News - What's gone wrong with the banks?

I loved this bit, and smacks of old school England and Bowler Hat wearing bankers... maybe this is what we need to return to!

"the Bank of England insisted that all banks in London's financial district had to be within 10 minutes' walking distance of the governor's office.

This was done, it was said, so that in times of crisis he could summon bosses of the banks to his parlour with half an hour's notice.

Thus the governor could rule the City merely by raising his eyebrows, in that celebrated phrase, face to face.

Bank governance was done deftly, behind the scenes.

The governor never spoke in public, thus preserving his mystery."

Germany's AAA credit rating under review

Oh dear, now Germany, Europes economic engineroom is under review from a credit agency.

Give it another couple of years, maybe we will all be reduced to bartering with chickens

Well if the opening ceremony goes a bit flat, then maybe they could wheel this out?

Kids!! If you don't behave then I'll take your milk off you

Thank you John, obviously you can track inbound traffic from GA, but is there any analytic's in Pinterest? ie how many likes you have had, how many repins etc? Other than having to look beneath each picture.

I can see my likes in the menu bar, but not the other way round.

Anyone following the Panda and subsequent Penguin updates must now start to be getting a little shell shocked from all this constant flux, but now Google have gone further.

For anyone that doesn't really understand what all the fuss is about, Google has gone on a crusade to clean up the internet, and anyone who has sneakily managed to get any keywords ranked in Googles search results has come (or will come) a cropper. In other words if you have operated outside of Googles T&C's then watch out.

It's "Penguin"updates are specifically aimed at sites with bad linking neighbourhoods, or with bad, dodgy or suspect linking profiles.

If you have been using a cheap SEO service, submitting to 5000 directories for $25, done some serious article spinning, or are using automated link generation then take notice!

Googles gloves are off, and all the old spammy ways of building quick links are over.

But, just to add to all of the confusion chaos, Google has suggested website owners start removing dubious or spammy links. The question is how?

You would need to contact the site you linked to, or ask the SEO company who did the work. Lets be honest, it's not going to happen!

So if links pointing to you (which traditionally Google said you had no control over) can now do you harm, then this has led to a debate centred around "Negative SEO". In otherwords, deliberately creating bad linking profiles for your competitors!

Bing has jumped in ahead of Google and offered a "disavow" tool for it's own search engine, but there's nothing like this from Google yet.

Then just to mix the pot up and really confuse site owners and marketeers, for the last few months Google has been leaving notices in Webmaster tools for any with bad link warnings, and asking you to get it sorted.

But then Matt Cutts (Mr Google Anti Spam Man) told the world on Friday that "if you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don