These bills, if passed, will drive more death nails, but not just into the coffins of the supporting industries, but rather into the entire online community and economy. These are bad bills and must be stopped.
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The Lost Art (and Appreciation) of Quality
We live in a “disposable” age, where a good portion of the population is content paying for inferior goods and services. This race to the bottom has led to generations of consumers that simply don’t know any better. They don’t know that laminated particleboard furniture you assemble at home is substandard to solid hardwood furniture with dovetail joints. They don’t care that their shoes or electronics are made in a toxic fume laced factory in China. They simply care about price and nothing else.
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Knowledge without Wisdom is Dangerous.
Knowledge without Wisdom is all too evident with businesses trying to save money and get ahead by hiring young and/or inexperienced (cheap) people in key, or even less than key, positions.
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11 Reasons You’re Failing
God has given us everything we need to succeed… I’m not kidding, it’s really true. If we’re struggling then we’re have one, or more, of the following issues… at times I think I suffer from all 11!
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Barney Fife Chases the SEO Bandits at J.C. Penny
The NY Times published an article on February 13th (the 12th online) titled The Dirty Little Secrets of Search by David Segal, that lambasted J.C. Penny for a massive paid link campaign. This included playing elementary school tattle-tale and reporting their “findings” to Google – which in turn got J.C. Penny’s search engine rankings flushed down the toilet. To me, and probably a lot of other SEO experts, the article is a joke.
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Have You Been Slapped by the Google Ranking Adjustment?
Google and other search engines change their ranking algorithms regularly. This latest update dealt with garbage and getting it out of the search results. Google and other search engines are in the business of dishing up what people are looking for. Give Google garbage to dish up and you’ll get slapped. Maybe you will get your garbage ranked well for a while, but eventually you’ll get ranked where you should be and that’s way back in the pack.
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