NewRedBook – The Nick Garner Blog

Just a quick thought. as many of you know, wikipedia has set up ‘no follow’ with all the outgoing links form the site. ‘no follow’ is a tag used to tell search engines not to follow a link. of course its up to the search engines as to weather they actually do or don’t follow [...]

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I know this has been done to death – the whole google might be evil thing etc… Having read both John Battale’s book ‘search’ and an unauthorised biography of google and Robery Scobles naked conversatios I get the clear impression that: Google is: A very regimented secretive organisation (of course we already know that!) Its [...]

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I think link baiting has been done to death. its great if you know how. But like any marketplace, the more entries into a given space, the more competitive it gets and correspondingly the less effective it all becomes. I say all this, but i wish I was a genius linkbaiter. That is probably why [...]

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My wikipedia hell…the prevailing idea behind wikipedia is that individuals contribute out of their goodness… but of course there is no free lunch in life and a great number of the contributions are placed in order to get that valuabe reference link at the bottom of the page. But as with any ‘social envoronment, you [...]

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Notice a familiar sentiment……? 

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I have been doing a lot of research recently on inbound linking and linkbait – i.e. getting links from the RIGHT sites and making sure the content on those sites is right for getting linked to. Obviously the right content is something you want to return to in the future, perhaps its reference material, or [...]

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