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What ever happened to walking up to a person and talking to them, or going down to the pub for lunch or something?




I am King Kong in my office - mind you I'm the only one in my office lol.
I can understand that there would be a few similarities, but for the life of me cannot understand how someone would say that the office structure is like the hierarchy in a monkey troop. Call me old fashioned, but people are people, monkeys are monkeys, and sometimes people believe more than they should. Even if it gives them a little publicity online or in the news.

I'm not sure I understand completely. The whole debacle was about mothers that protested and how they used social media to advertise what happened, which luckily led to a happy ending...

What about no-follow? Surely, for things to look natural, you need a decent amount of no-follow links as well?

Infected Mushroom - psytrance yes, but this is one of there more chilled tracks - Elevation. Soothing this early in the morning. lol

Infected Mushroom - Elevation [HQ] - YouTube

Brilliant

Nope I have a new thing to do when its not raining, I go outside and sit in my little corner garden and just watch the birds and flowers, while drinking some tea (or coffee) its relaxing.

Not really Google does things occasionally to show tribute to people, shows and events. Not too ling ago, they had a tribute game for star trek, and this time around it was Monty Python's turn.

Interesting introduction Will move this over to the right thread for you.

Welcome to MLF by the way.

To answer your question, marketers use SEO as a tool to drive visitors to a product page/site. But that isn't all the magic. A marketer's main job is like an image consultant. They need to find the right campaign to market a product and then advertise, while building the company and product reputation all in one go. You can use video, podcasts, blogs, social networking (including forums), press releases, and a whole lot of other techniques. SEO ties into all of them as well, but the main task is to promote the product, site and company.

lol don't mind me, I just love debating. It's all part of being a redhead I guess.

The whole technique might have been a gray area yes, but at the same time it became BH. The reason I say this is that in the beginning, when the fad hit, it was a good idea to have a domain that was an EMD to the keyword you used. People created these, and started adding content and building backlinks etc. just like they would with any other site. When the rogue SEO's saw that it actually had a really good effect on the SERP's, they decided to do what we all do. Build sites, create content, start backlinking. The only problem is that they do what they usually do. Laden the site with low quality content, blast links back to their domain, and who knows what else so that their site gains rank and keeps that top spot.

Google saw this and decided to put a stop to it. Just like they did with the meta keywords, blog networks, and everything else that seemed ok to use at the time.
See the pattern? Google gives us the means to rank our sites, gain our own little corner of the web, Rogue SEO's come along and take over, and Google axes it. Taking other innocent sites with them in the process. The authority of an EMD has been declining a lot over the last 2 or so years. That alone shows that the EMD update was already on its way out. With the decline of the EMD yearly, it showed that Google was giving less and less value to those domains, because of the way it was being abused (one can only guess ).

Forgive me, but I must respectfully disagree here. BH has always been the same, regardless of the time an algo came out. It hasn't changed.

There are some gray areas, yes, but the sites Google are targeting are actively building links, creating link wheels, creating more and more EMD sites, pointing them to each other or their "money site", and just so that they can get their sites to rise in the serps. 90% of the time these sites have little or no high quality content, loaded with spam, and all so that they can make money from it. They then augment this with all sorts of automated software. This is what Google is against. It leads to people finding low quality and sometimes dangerous sites and the user takes longer to find what they need.

What we do on forums, creating signature links, exchanging links (that have been properly no-followed according to Google standards), is the grey area.

The only real problems are the actual bona fide sites that have brilliant content on them, with little to no suspicious inbound links, that are taking the flack for it as well.

(As usual, IMHO)