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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
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I am not generally a big fan of the concept known as 'the sandbox' - to that end, slowly but surely I have begun to rant on it more than usual. It may be by pet peeve of 2007 - we'll see.
 I myself am not a believer of the mythical beast known far and wide as 'the sandbox' effect. The rabid followers of this cult seem to make up definitions at a whim and there is absolutly consisency as to what qualifes as being part of the SB effect. That's where my issues with it begin... non-sensical definitions.
I am sure I will be comming across more SB debates... but for now - here's entry #1.
" am not a believer in the mythical 'sand box' it's followers are intense though.. kinda like 'the cult of PR'. Sure, there are a variety of factors and situations that give an appearance of such, but U are not LOCKED in....
So do not wait for anything.. get the on-site work done and continue link building... once you have reached a certain level - rankings will start to climb.
I compared it the other day to a brick and mortar in that - would you expect a new B&M to make a million in the first few months? No...you need to get the word out.
That's what back links are. You can't expect to rank for popular terms with a new site in a short period of time... Work on some long tail targets and be sure to get deep back links not just the home page "
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=16125
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
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This one comes up a fair bit and I am somewhat suprised it does.. So it has landed in Dave's Favs to get put away... for the moment at least... Matt Cutts of Google (fame?) mentioned this in a recent (July 06) videos.. but the beast lives on... Do you know the answer? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=194269
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
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Ok, sure this one may not be entirely educational, but it sure was a good scrap. In the end I guess U can make up your own mind.. needless to say whom I agree with...
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"There seems to be a lot of confusion over duplicate content and in particular; how / why a site is penalised for it.
If we take article marketing as an example: My experience is that writing original articles and submitting them to article directories can generate a lot of backlinks. However, some suggest that because the article is duplicated on many websites it somehow negates the value of the backlink. Some even suggest it could have a negative effect - is this true? Or is the duplicate content 'penalty' only applied to the hosting site?"
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=181476
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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
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An interesting discussion came up on indentifying the true competitiveness of a given term in ones SEO planning. For too long people have merely typed in the said term and used the BULK returned results as the 'competition' when in fact this is merely instances of it. Even quotations don't really work (such as "my targeted term")
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?p=121406#121406 and revisited on DP as well http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=187120
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Saturday, 14 October 2006 |
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