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Re: Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns

skinner — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:46:11 -0000

I thought he was dead already, which kind of says it all about how important print news is nowadays. Who cares what murdoch thinks about how the Net works? He'll find out, for sure.

Re: Disgusting Google scam loose on Twitter

skinner — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:51:10 -0000

I totally agree with you Andrew: personal and professional pride is the way to go!

Re: Writing Blog Posts That Work Well For Search Engines & Searchers in a CMS

skinner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:43:51 -0000

Hi Barry, good points. I'd just like to say that I don't think the H1 tag is as important as it's made out to be though: I've found that if you use H2 or even H3 you get the same results. :)

Re: “Twitter Rape Case”: MC Hammer’s Cousin Arrested

skinner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:47:06 -0000

I agree with you Nikki: what was that woman doing in a hotel room with a strange man? She sure likes to live dangerously--and this is the result. In fact, I doubt the whole thing. Sounds like someone planned it to me.

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:44:04 -0000

Thankyou Kat, I'm honored. :) I think anyone else confronted with the temptation probably wouldn't go for it, considering how opinion, and as you say, karma would be pretty much stacked against them: doesn't seem as if it would be good for business to me. I don't really subscribe to the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Bad PR really can work against you dramatically online.

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:46 -0000

According to a poll by Alltop.com over 75 percent are against TechCrunch publishing stolen material, so I'd say the trend is overwhelmingly in favor of ethics. Quite comforting.

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:52:24 -0000

Hi Randy, this is precisely my point: in fact, stolen information can cause a lot more heartache than stolen posessions don't you think?

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:50:41 -0000

Hi Noah, thank you :) It is not clear at the moment how it's all goign to end up, but so far TechCrunch seem defiant that they have the right to publish this stolen info. I wonder how they'd react if their own personal and business information was up for grabs?

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:55:12 -0000

I totally agree with you Dana, and I'm going to unfollow TechCrunch as soon as I'm done writing about this incident. It's also coming off my RSS reader. I also feel very strongly about this: we need to send THE strongest signal that it is not alright to steal people's data and publish: even if it is 'newsworthy.'

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:34 -0000

Hi Ben,
Thanks for your expression of total agreement :) it's nice that you're first too. I expect some flack, but it's a pleasant surprise how many people actually seem to agree with me.

Re: Twitter: Will Spammers Murder Our Favorite Social Media Tool?

skinner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:51:57 -0000

Personally, I'd like to see really stringent action taken against spammers--like having their websites and emails closed down and their IP blocked en masse. That's my dream. :)

Re: Twitter: Will Spammers Murder Our Favorite Social Media Tool?

skinner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:50:24 -0000

Yes, I admit I've taken part in followfriday, and it was nice in the beginning, but now it is simply extremely irritating and i don't think it provides a useful purpose as most of those taking part are simply spammers.

Re: SEO Blackhat SMO Tricks Can Hurt You Even if You Didn’t Do it Yourself!

skinner — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:11:05 -0000

Hi Roland, I'm really sorry to hear about your problems. A good SEO should be able to guarantee a minimum of results, and they should certainly be able to guarantee that you won't get penalized by Google as a result of their work. Took a look at your website, and yes, it could use a little help. :)

Basic SEO will always put you ahead of the guys that aren't doing it. Knowledgeable web marketing can make a staggering difference to your business online (this includes SEO). I don't care what anyone else tells you, this is a fact.

Re: Calling all Social Media experts …. oh wait there aren’t any

skinner — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:56:08 -0000

I think you're being a little harsh here Steven. I agree there are some total idiots out there claiming to know how to promote via social media, and obviously HabitatUK didn't do their homework, and so ended up with one of those. But there are a great many online who do know what they're doing. It's like any field I suppose: buyer beware. You can even end up with a quack doctor if you don't do your homework first. I do agree that most experts don't brand themselves as such though. My point mainly is that there's too much aggressive commentary going on--it's spoiling the social media milieu I'd say.

Re: Why Twitter is a Great CPA Marketing Tool!

skinner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:13:54 -0000

Hi, yes you always get early-adopters and others who take a bit longer to warm to new concepts in any new branch of online technology. We've been hearing for years now about how Twitter is a fabulous business tool, but as you say, not so many people know how to connect the dots. Time for an info package I think. :)

Re: Ultimate List of Web Tracking Applications

skinner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:19:33 -0000

Hi Timmy, yes I agree about the links (and content) but still you need to know what your traffic is doing. :)

Re: Matt Cutts is a really nice guy but…

skinner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:55:52 -0000

Hi, nice to see you here! I absolutely agree with you: but what I'm saying is we should be aware that he's not going to give us everything we want to know about issues that hinge directly on how Google treats our pages. :) I also agree he's a very knowledgeable guy and fascinating to listen to.

Oh, and just to illustrate what I was talking about further, is this wonderful post I found on page rank sculpting: http://www.traffick.com/2009/06/pagerank-sculpt...

Re: Why WordPress Can Help Your Business…

skinner — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:36:50 -0000

Hi Nick, yes for sure no CMS can possibly replace your proactive marketing and link building strategies--but it can put you well on the way to success. :)

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:17:43 -0000

Ooh I'm not talking about 'outing' anyone. I have far better things to do with my time. :)

Also, I'm not suggesting my 'group' become decision makers for anyone but themselves. Why would anyone want to do that? Rather, I think we will actually be more effective because we are volunteering to self-regulate. We will be quite independent from other SEOs so if you disagree that we're doing the right thing I can't see what's to get upset about. Frankly.

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:34:18 -0000

Hi Jim, there's only one thing for it: I have to make a blog post about exactly what my vision is.. I'm not really suggesting that we police each other: the idea behind self regulation is that by joining a member of the SEO Self Regulation Community will agree to avoid bad practices and to embrace the best practices commonly accepted in SEO. More later.

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:31:51 -0000

Thanks Dave. Yeah, I agree that the search engines won't make it easy.. But there are things that some so-called SEOs have been doing that get us all a bad name. I am not talking about professionals or the big names, but a green website owner who doesn't know the difference can't be expected to know if he's dealing with a fly-by-night or one of us, and that's what I aim to change. :) Welcome by the way.

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:56 -0000

First Jill, don't take it personally because I really didn't have you in mind when I was talking about high profile SEOs. Funny but the people I did have in mind haven't take issue with what i said. I wasn't being insulting at all.

Are you saying that all top SEOs reveal all their strategies for everyone to copy? They don't for sure and I'm positive that they don't want to be subject to regulations so that they never have to reveal exactly what it is that they do. We all feel like that to a certain extent I suppose. But I was not accusing them of wrongdoing. They wouldn't be where they are if they habitually took risks with their clients.

All you keep saying is that rules won't work. All I'm saying is that we don't necessarily need a list of what we must do, but rather a list of what we should never do for client protection. That's all. It's no problem to our community (which is growing steadily), if most of you don't want to join. We're happy to be the heretics for now.

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:26:54 -0000

Hah, my grandfather was from County Cork. :) Nice to meet you Ann.

Re: The Birth of the SEO Self Regulation Community

skinner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:20:17 -0000

They most certainly don't recommend Black Hat--and I never said they did. I didn't even accuse them of practicing Black Hat. But you know what? If I earned $30,000 a week, or whatever the heck it is that Rand currently commands, I wouldn't want to be regulated either. But when you're at the other end of the scale and Matt Cutt's remarks are scaring clients away, then self regulation might be an answer don't ya think?

Re: 12 Steps Of SEO Anonymous

skinner — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:02:13 -0000

It has been quite a journey for us all Kimberly, but hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel: website looking good :)