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In commercial markets a great many companies employ "SEO experts" to help manipulates Google's results giving them leverage over others. Why shouldn't prime content providers use the same techniques? Restricting search engine access to content based for copyright reasons is just the wrong thing to be doing in my opinion

Owen's last blog post..How about a mixer?

Has to be Twhirl for me. Twitter is something I do alongside the rest of my life .. it's NOT the whole of my life ..

There's something to be said for focusing on your core strengths and, more often than not, spreading yourself thinly over as many social networks as you can does nothing to help further your objectives.

Better to build a bastion of strength on your preferred medium (whether it's blogging, Twitter or Social Network X) and build your community around yourself.

The great thing about people is that they will always use their ingenuity and initiative to find ways around any constraints that are imposed on them.

The Chinese authorities need to realise that the illusion of control is probably more damaging than the control they think they have

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..The value of perks

I think I agree with the general consensus .. there are quite a few better favicons than the one they are using ...

Owen's last blog post..Misleading headlines: Lies, darned lies, and misrepresented statistics

Seems to have survived the onslaught. At least it was much better than it was last week !

Owen's last blog post..Misleading headlines: Lies, darned lies, and misrepresented statistics

Ohh .. the article on duplicate content was most interesting to me too. This sentence pretty much sums it up: "To conclude, I'd like to point out that in the majority of cases, having duplicate content does not have negative effects on your site's presence in the Google index."

Owen's last blog post..Misleading headlines: Lies, darned lies, and misrepresented statistics

I had started to switch towards Plurk, but today Plurk is having issues and Twitter is working reasonably well ... so I think it's back to Twitter being my micro-blogging platform of choice ..

It doesn't feel like there's a serious contender out there ..

Owen's last blog post..Misleading headlines: Lies, darned lies, and misrepresented statistics

A toolkit for custom 404 pages? How's that for spoon feeding!

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..Misleading headlines: Lies, darned lies, and misrepresented statistics

There's an interesting lesson here for people who rely on suppliers for their disaster recovery. Most site owners (especially the smaller ones) expect sites to just live on forever, when there are scenarios like these which are just out of their control.

It's always good to have a plan B, regardless of how big or small you are.

That's an interesting idea and it's not a stretch if Google had to use site searches as a distributed way of bolstering it's own search index.

Would be an interesting revenue stream for Google if every SEO "expert" and his dog started recommending to clients to get their own custom search ...

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..Time for a HoneyPot

*grin* Came across this post using the "Random Post" option above. 3 months old huh? How things have changed ;)

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..Time for a HoneyPot

Nice list, albeit not very original. I think probably the one with least value is number 5, sponsor a non-profit organisation. It's a lovely thing to do, but it all you're after is Link Juice, all the other options are cheaper and more effective.

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..Time for a HoneyPot

*chuckle* .. everyone wants to jump onto the microblogging bandwagon, but looks like people underestimate the sheer amount of computing power these "many-to-many" networks require .. Pity. I liked the look of Plurk

Owen Cutajar's last blog post..Time for a HoneyPot

Wow .. it's been a year already huh?

Anyway, thanks for the mention

Owen (Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot)

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@Michelle: Not quite sure I agree with you. I delete as many spam emails as I used to before; if anything I delete them quicker nowadays so I can head back to Twitter/Facebook/Blogs. Granted, I'm not your usual audience, but people are getting more and more desensitized to email.

Also, I've been introduced to a new generation of teenagers and kids who simply do not use email, preferring to communicate amongst themselves with IM and Microblogging ...

I agree with Jeff above .. until the market (early adopters really) samples, tests and finds value in whatever it is .. it's not really important to the man in the street ..

Looks like you have the right background for it, black .. just like treacle .. because that's what it feels like at the moment.

Looks like they've underestimated the resources they need to come out of their closed beta!

The main question though is whether this drives visitors to your site or not. If the net result is still positive, then it may be acceptable.

Thanks for the mention Andy. So this is what fame is all about huh?

Must be nice to be a billionaire ...

Hmm, the interesting thing is that you and I are aware of Beacon and it's impact on Facebook's users, but I suspect that the majority of my Facebook mates don't have any idea about this!

The question is: does Santa know he's being tracked? Couldn't this be construed as an invasion of his privacy?

*Chuckle* .. that's the funniest thing I've read this week !

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