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assuming whatever it was it got done!

closing thread

Eh? Come again over?

It is, but when you start to filter in information from different people and websites, you can start to paint a picture of what has changed, or what we need to do.

Obviously it would be a lot easier if Google just told us, and if your site got penalised you got told why, so you could fix and resubmit!

Suppose it keeps things interesting

Can't see this approach working in any other industry though....

Imagine it, HMRC are fining your company and sending you to prison, but we won't tell you why, or what policy we've changed.

I think the whole PageRank debate will grind on forever, sowing confusion and worry.

Personally, honest answer is don't worry about Page Rank. Concentrate on decent page construction, on page SEO, clean ethical non blackhat marketing techniques, and you will gain Pagerank accordingly.

We seem to bounce between PR4 and PR3 every 6 months. No idea why, we're not aggressive link builders, and play it all by the book.

But does any PR change actually make any difference, traffic, conversions or revenue wise? Nope.

If you are desperate to increase PR for what ever reason, the traditional way to do it seems to be to get a much higher PR sites than yours to link to you, and the "PR link juice" will in theory increase your PR.

But the effort involved versus any actual genuine benefit seems a waste of resource imho. Plus with all the recent Google changes and upheavals, whether this approach still works is questionable.

Just look on the left hand menu, and follow the "links to your site" option.

Its truly shocking

I was very near the centre of Birmingham last night after visiting a relative and wondered what all the sirens were about! Couldn't believe it when I got home and saw the local news.

A sub section of our society that think they are above law and order, or don't seem to have the need to follow the general rules of a civilised society.

A lMidlands Today TV crew filmed scrubbers vandalising mobile phone shops and helping themselves over 30 minute period with no Police intervention.

A police spokesman countered this with they were more worried about securing the situation and not inflaming it.

I only hope that every single little scum bag that helped themselves, broke the law is identified by CCTV footage and is arrested and punished. And I don't mean a slap on the wrist or a caution. Otherwise, we have just given a green light for every little toe rag to get a bunch of his toe rag mates, trash a local business, and get away with it.

It's been a shameful few days for the UK, not the best advert for the 2012 games...

Yup it got bumped a while back, but think it's safely run its course!

Closing....

Love it

"A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.

Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.

Prosecutors allege he developed a program that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to submit their account details"
US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in

hmmm, one down, 500,000 to go.....

I disagree. There's a lot more to running a business than simply just replicating the job you currently do as an employee.

Business Plans can be an important tool to help give you a strategy and direction. Numbers may turn out to be pie in the sky 12 months later, but you can revisit a business plan and edit as your experience grows.

It's easy to ignore banks, but imagine you win a lucrative contract, which will require some upfront capital from you, maybe a new van, tools, employees etc. So you may need a short term loan to enable you to take on the contract. In this case a business plan would be essential.

But it's not easy running a business, high rewards come with high risks and responsibility.

Being an employee and letting someone else have all the stress is a lot easier