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So they are outranking Rand on a keyword they optimized, that is part of SEO the last time I checked. So instead of taking it like a man and trying to beat the competition, he will use his "mozer" fame and just call them out on it. Rand's reputation is like that of a sculpted statue, with the linkscape fiasco he chipped away at his own reputation. Now with this outing post, as it surely is his way of throwing a hissy fit my 2yr. old would do when he doesn't want to go to bed. He is chipping away even more from his reputation statue and one day it will just crumble to little pieces. You support the use of paid text links for your clients, yet bitch when a SEO company out ranks you for a competitive term using directory submissions. Contradiction’s you put out are amazing, keep it up and I will bet from this day fourth you will surely be looked at differently in the community.
He has removed his post and retracted his statements regarding the sale of CPA Empire saying his source was wrong.
I do not see how they can actually get away with this. What if the domain name is registered out of the country along with the hosting. Other countries do not have to follow laws in other countries or even states. They should have the KY based ISP's block certain websites from being accessed, would make this a lot easier I would think.
Story: Personal Branding is BS
Gary did talk about personal branding in the first minute of this video. He did state he would not go into personal branding, but I would love to see his take on it. Gary has branded his winelibrary site more then anything. Anyhow check out the first minute of this video by gary talking about Oprah and Paul Newman. The big difference is these people are/were HUGE celebrity which takes personal branding to a whole new level. I personally think branding a business name is by far more powerful then branding your name. You can only go so far with your name, but with a business brand the sky is the limit.
http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/10/07/word-of-mouth-has-changed/
Story: SEO Rapper
Pretty damn talented to do that if you ask me, the beat, the flow and he speaks the truth. Hell of a combonation.
Yes I agree there is not hat either, marketing is marketing anyway you look at it. However to some people there are differences on black/white/grey or whatever else you want to call it.
I will step up and say that you cannot learn all of SEO from a book. You can learn the basic fundementals of SEO to get you started in a direction. You might choose the wrong direction and get distracted by what you read, since you probalby will not be reading from just one book. If you read Search Engine Opitimization with PHP by Jamie Sirovich and Cristian Darie you will come across chapters that refer to cloaking and blackhat techniques. As we know to play by the rules and think long term, you will not want to take up on that direction of SEO. You learn the very basic's of some of the techniques, but you do not learn everything. So to say that you can learn everything about SEO from reading a book is just a load of crap. Sure you can learn how to cook by reading cook books, but you will not be nearly as good as someone else who has practiced and actually worked in the industry to test out different cooking techniques. The same goes for SEO, a book will only take you so far, and to be competitive that is not far enough.
Jill - The articles were read, all 4 of them. So much for making mistakes, is that not allowed here by you or any other mod? Ever think that maybe I misinterpretted the message being sent? No, I didn't think so, instead you come out with that kind of comment.
Steve
I have never seen this type of post before, very original and boy have they come a long way. lol
Bah I just now saw the post by Fantom that he has this same offer posted on his blog which can be found at http://www.fantomaster.com Mods can delete this post if need be.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=627559
Here is the original thread where I found the link, I do not want anyone to think that I put that id int he link to try and make money off of the Sphinn user.s
Happy New Year to everyone here at Sphinn! I hope to be more vocal here and come out of my shell of shyness for the new year!
Congrats Andy! One day we will see a post for Andy's 1000 and I hope to be here for that one as well.
Jonathan, I applaud your efforts and grats on it being such a huge success for you. Just goes to show us all that we are a family and when help is asked for in most cases everyone jumps in to help out. I believe this is also a success for Sphinn itself, shows the veterans and new people that we are in fact a community that helps one another. Yes we have disagreements and arguments, but that is just like with any family.
Exactly my thoughts Tim, who is to say you cannot target someone and attack there YSM account with fraud charges. Yahoo needs to be able to detect such activities and fix it on there end, I mean they even admitted that he was not at fault. I wrote an article about this on my blog in regards to sabotaging someones YSM account in the same manor I feel happened to Jeremey. I just hope I am wrong about the idea and that it is truly not possible to do. If it is possible though, oh boy would that open a huge can of worms. That hole that Yahoo has would need to be filled and fixed quickly by them or other high profile YSM accounts could be shut down using the same tactic.
Oh boy another english teacher...thank you. I always mix up there and their.
Sadly enough crimsongirl the selling of links will not go away anytime soon. At worst it will be moved from the mainstream life to more underground affiliations to where not just anyone can buy proper links that actually will improve your website.
So the short article takes you to a page to buy his ebook...and this is sphunn because?
Dave I guess you put a new "sphinn" on the phrase start them when they are young. :) All my daughter wants to do play on disney.com, but she is only 7.
Grats Maki, you are indeed a sphinn machine hard at work to bring us some kick ass articles.
Yes i agree it is still a good article to read. A little on the old side, but in Jondyer's defence I did not see a post date on doshdosh for the article. I had to go down to the comments and look at the date of the first response which was March 2007. Still a good read though for anyone interested.
Story: Where's the Beef?
People need to think back 5 years and see how networking was done then and apply that to there networking now. Face to face, chat rooms, forums, instant messaging, telephone, etc. are all used to instroduce yourself to the people in your industry. Begging for attention or a glimpse at the spotlight will not go far. The attention you get will be from a negative eye and the spotlight you see will fade rather quickly. I am not a big influence on the community here as are some others, but at least take the advice of hard work and determination will get you farther then complaining.
Great addition to add to your feedflare! Not only helps your posts on sphinn, but it also allows others to know about the sphinn community.
Story: Bad SEOs, bad SEOs, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when SEOMoz comes for you?