Lots of rash statements get written by new media types after a press conference by Google, as an attempt to grab attention or to validate their business model by detrimenting that of others.
I am glad Matt Cutts, Marissa Mayer and many other Googlers have been fairly quick to defend the continued need for some kind of Search Engine Optimization, because ultimately a lot of what is SEO helps Google index content and find relevance.
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Using blog comments for the purpose of linkbuilding has risks.
The saying goes a license or contract has no teeth unless you enforce it.
I typically enforce my comment policy by simply deleting the comments, but I have a clause that specifically caters to SEO agencies spamming my comments whether for themselves or on behalf of clients.
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Yesterday my wife opened an express letter Fedexed to me from a law office in San Diego – apparently a British marketer has decided the only way he can repair his search engine results is to call out the lawyers, and I have a very strong feeling this is going to backfire.
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Over the last year I have given a fair amount of coverage to PayPerPost, who now house the service along with other endeavours under the name Izea.
There are multiple reasons why I have supported PayPerPost and similar programs so strongly, and yet at the same time have never reviewed a link buying / selling service.
I have mentioned link buying and selling in passing, and also a couple of Wordpress plugins, but those plugins generally allow you to sell links which have a nofollow.
My emphasis both in editorial about services and in the few reviews I have myself written is to encourage the writing of quality content with editorial links. Compensation in whatever form should be based upon the time involved, expertise, and possibly the size and influence of the audience, and not based upon any SEO benefit to a site or service being reviewed.
Lets start with the mosaic, as writing about it has been on my "to do" list for a few days.
Maurizo is a regular reader and talented programmer has come up with a great idea for community appreciation, a community mosaic.
I know this has taken him a great deal of time to accomplish, because he first of all asked me for a high resolution photo over a month ago.
First of all here is a baby version of his amazing mosaic
If you want to see the full size version you will have to click through to see the full community
Quite probably RIAA is one of the most hated organisations on the internet, possibly followed by Microsoft, but as Bill Gates has been demonstrating recently, he actually seems quite a nice guy and “gets” technology and nerdy things.
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Sam Casuncad – Unprofessional SEO?
Honestly if you offer a service promoting professional SEO and SEM services, you don’t spam the comments of another blog in the SEO community trying to promote some WordPress themes of dubious quality.
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