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Hmm good point:
BBC News - Baidu and Microsoft tie-up for English search in China

"Baidu receives about 10 million search queries in English a day" which it will now send to Bing.

It will certainly be a shot in the arm for Bing. Plus if you launch an English Language site, maybe it will make optimising a bit easier, rather than working out how Baidus algorithm works?

Why not? If you're good at it, then sounds like consultancy to me, I'd imagine it's pretty satisfying as well, especially fixing issues in the public sector.

Hello Nosgo, welcome aboard.

So are you simply looking for a supplier or is this some kind of business venture?

I suppose I always look at it through the eyes as an SEO self taught amateur. Once you have the basics mastered, it's just a case of staying on top of everything and ensuring everything I do is by the book.

But I've come a cropper in the past, by doing something questionable, and having it pointed out by professionals. Rookie mistakes, that kind of thing.

So when people mention scrapers, automated submissions, spinning content, I just think no thanks, and always associate those activities (rightly or wrongly) to grey or black hat practices.

But then I don't do it for a living, or at least for paying clients. So I suppose for SEO professionals, business necessity will dictate there has to be an element of automation and tools, as being completely manual like me isn't very cost effective

Whether some of those tools are classed as naughty I suppose depends on the tools

For me personally, my new bible is SEOmoz, and I'm finding it extremely useful, and keeps me on the straight and narrow.

SEO seems to have a bad reputation along with sales people! But there are plenty of professionals out there who take pride in their work.

Stick with your principles

Russ, theres too much doom and gloom in the world, stay positive and you won't go far wrong in life

Plus it's Friday, and everyone's positive on a Friday. Unless you work for News Corp....

Well everyone was baying for her blood, looks like she has buckled under the pressure from all sides.

BBC News - Phone hacking: News International chief Brooks quits

Now News Corp is planning a national apology in a damage limitation strategy.

So Murdoch's empire wings have been clipped, BSYB bid in tatters, News of the World no more, who'd have imagined all this a few months ago!?

Interesting point, and can be a common problem with a lot of forums, not just business ones.

There's an SEO Forum in particular that I occasionally visit, and is a gold mine of info, but after a few posts, was quickly aware of a very clicky and superior type attitude, and it decends into flaming wars. So now I just lurk in the background.

There's also a large Business Forum that seems to suffer from the same issue at times, maybe too many ego's on one board...

But there are plenty of friendly business forums where people who want to contribute are made to feel welcome, hopefully this is one of them.

But it can be the same in conventional networking, where you have a group of people in a breakfast club, and you can very much feel like an outsider, and have to pay for the privilege!

It's actually fascinating feedback, especially from someone who's spelling leaves a lot to desired, but I do try and proof read all of our content, but some stuff will always occasionally slip through the net. We don't have a proof reader on staff, so its delegate and stitch someone, do it yourself or outsource, economic realities of smaller businesses.

I wonder if you would forgive a larger organisation over a smaller one? Would you be so hard on a national chain of flower shops, if they had a typo in a sales promo, versus a 1 man band private flower shop, who has a typo on their website or sales literature?

Lets face it, from time to time the big boys drop a clanger, or a junior marketing person doesn't proof read something before it goes live.

I'm guessing most people wouldn't be put off going to Argos or Walmart because they misspelt something in a promo? But people would be harder on a smaller business? Seems unfair, but maybe human nature?

Don't mock them, they may be watching..

For every big update we always slaughter a goat and do a bit of chanting, seems to have worked ok so far.

I meant royalty wise, assume they must have deals with the record companies to license the music?