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The more I hear about Twitter at the moment, the more I'm convinced that its the next facebook - - without all the zombies and hugs, obviously.
Of course, one rule for them, one rule for everyone else - and I'm sure the increased bid prices on previously cheap brand keywords for the trademark owners will not hurt their bottom line either ;-)
very disappointing development. 1 less innovative competitor to Google. What's really interesting is that 8% of the workforce at Ask is 40 people. That means that the entire search engine was run by ~500 people.
Perhaps less money spent on obtuse advertising, and more spent on getting the best people to work for them would have meant that they could have had a ranking algorithm that they could have been proud to give to users (and which users would have benefited from) rather than simply creating pages that gave enough semantic information to generate the highest paying contextual adverts from Google for any given query.
Seriously. Compare the Adsense you see on Ask against the PPC results in Google.
Story: SEO Myths | Keyword Density?
Absolutely right. Well written content that puts the user experience first is always the right way to go. If an article or piece of content is written properly, the main theme or keyword will naturally be emphasised. There is no need to count the number of times you force a keyword into the content, unless you have OCD.
DP offers the ability for members to post their own AdSense code into the site, and get revenue for posting and using the site, perhaps it is just that a lot of the members who take advantage of this are having their accounts banned, rather than the whole site being hit.
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While traditional reciprocal linking may be dead (or at least very sick these days), I think that it has now evolved into something different. Look at the number of people commenting on other blogs, swapping Stumbles and so on. Nothing ever disappears, it simply evolves.
Having said that, the days of unsolicited emails saying "I'll link to your site from my crappy links page if you link to me from yours" are over. Aren't they?
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