WebPro News Letter
We subscribe to webpronews.com
They seem to get the news about google updates before most.
Their tips and advice is always worth reading.
We think this is one of the better news letters to subsscribe to and most reliable.
It is US centric but that should not make a difference.
Sample of their news letter below as a fyi.. we have taken the advertising out, well they have to earn their money some how.
WebProNews – Link Buying Replaced With Bartering
March 29, 2008
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Link Buying Replaced With Bartering
Jason Lee Miller | Staff Writer
Google Time Warp Edition
Here’s a hard truth for the hardliners to swallow: Outlawing something sometimes has worse consequences than the thing outlawed. Or, as the mob tried to tell Congress once:
Prohibition’s a bitch.
Pardon my French. I’m descended from Appalachian bootleggers.
Google’s recent and notorious hard line stance against paid links is resulting in something quite predictable: The disaffected are leveraging every back-alley strategy they can think up. At least it doesn’t involve exploding trailers, tripwires, or bullets.
Andy Beard was a bit of a pioneer on the link-laundering front; his (complicated) strategy for masking paid links got some attention last month. But simpler tactics are emerging, some inspired by Google itself.
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One of them, which is the digital-world equivalent of impersonating a police officer is destined for a crackdown. Dave Naylor points to (and thus becomes a bit of a narc) what appear to be Google ads but are really nicely done spoofs.
Now that’s pretty sneaky.
John Andrews reports another method, which Google would have hard time targeting since the idea came from them to begin with.
Instead of buying links, barter for them, which makes for a weird 21st Century currency time warp.
It’s so dreamy, oh fantasy free me/ So you can’t see me, no not at all/In another dimension…
It’s just a jump to the left and then a step to the right to find Google rewarding volunteer participants at the Google blog with juice-filled back links. Andrews gets a little dramatic in his analogies (so do I, for that matter) comparing Google to a casino and SEOs to card-counters before suggesting Google is actively looking to destroy the entire SEO industry.
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There is a nugget of reason within this paragraph, though. See if you can find it. (Hint: It’s in bold type.)
The take-away is this, folks: Google is controlling you not for some benevolent reason, but in order to control the currency of the web. It took X amount of effort in those forums, dedicated for free by those posters, to earn a direct backlink from Google’s very popular webmaster blog. What was that worth? Google got to decide. Google thinks it is fine to barter in links without the nofollow… it just wants the price for such links to remain pitifully low, managed by Google. Can you see it now? Do we really need to wait a few more years until it is perfectly clear beyond any doubt that Google has all of the money and there is no room for us to share?
..But it’s the pelvic thru-ust/ that really drives you insane- yay-yay-yay-yane.
Bob Massa carries on that idea in this extraordinarily long, but perhaps more reasonable, post, which you can read for lots of good industry insight, or you can rely on Aaron Wall to dig out a solid, actionable nugget. In a smaller nutshell, people will barter links in exchange because:
Either it makes them money, saves them time, provides added value to their visitors or they believe it makes them look good or smart or benevolent to their visitors, their peers, their friends, their relatives, to the search engines, award sites or just about anyone that can make them a buck or stroke their ego.
Or, as it’s still known by the revenuers in
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Let’s Be Honest About Twitter
Rich Ord | CEO iEntry, Inc.
Twitter has become just a marketing strategy to many …
Twitter is a great new tool for the Internet savvy but it may already have past its prime as a way to keep in touch. Just looking around at Twitter profiles shows that most users are following hundreds of people which means your Twitter screen on the web has all new Tweets about every five minutes. Not exactly user friendly!
Twitterers following thousands of people like
(16,188) and Jason Calicanas (8,916) can’t possibly read all of the Tweets they sign up to follow. Let’s be honest, most people are Twittering as a strategy to either promote themselves or their business. Twitter has become much more about talking than listening for many people.
The general perception is that the number of Twitter followers is similar to an email list or a feed count. In other words as Twitter evolves it’s changing from a social networking tool to a marketing strategy. Evidence of this is the number of links you are seeing in tweets.
Nothing is wrong with this, but if Twitter is to prosper as a social announcement tool rather than a new way to blast a self serving message then options on filtering posts and prioritizing posters is needed.
Some of these options are available in outside apps, but these are used by few compared to the number of people Twittering. For Twitter to catch on with the average person features similar to an email client with files, folders, deleting, sorting and searching need to be incorporated in Twitter upon sign up.
Many people still do use Twitter effectively by being selective about who they follow and which tweets go to their mobile device.
Twitter is often used like a public IM to send messages to one person but where everyone can read them. Twitter is fascinating in both how it is used and its tremendous growth.
However, I think the writing on the Twitter wall is that more and more users see Twitter as a new free way to promote, promote and promote.
Follow this author on Twitter: twitter.com/richord
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