Cameron Olthuis

I came across this article tonight that’s plugging a new one way backlinking service from Content Relay.

Thus, the company (ContentRelay.com) has launched a new website which enables webmasters to generate one-way links to their website by providing other webmasters with content to publish on their website.

At fist glance this seems like a great idea, but here’s the problem. Just like every other backlinking method this is going to get abused by the spammers. Once they (the spammers) realize all their other linking techniques no longer work they’ll turn to this and begin abusing it, until the point where Google and others start penalizing for it. Once that happens the links we’ve all been working so hard to earn will start to be de-valued. In addition the web will start being filled with crappy content that serves as nothing more than a shameless plug for PPC (Pills, Porn, Casinos).

The other problem I can see happening is content theft. What’s going to stop others from stealing content and trying to pass it off as their own just to get another link?

Let’s just stick to earning inbound links the hard but ethical way, writing & creating powerful content that benefits others and gives them reason to share with the world without getting anything in return.

Here’s my list of the top 5 things that won’t help with your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, lots of them happen to be very popular techniques. Some are simply a waste of time, others are a waste of money, and some will just flat out get banned if you abuse them.

Please remember this is just one guy’s (me) opinion. Just about everything with SEO is a guess, sometimes an educated one. If you question any of this I suggest you do some research and form your opinion from there. Enjoy.

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Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks shares the stories he’s written about success & motivation. These stories are very inspiring.

I almost thought he was telling my life story at first. It seems we’ve had a lot of very similar experiences right up till somewhere in part #3 where my journey currently rests.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

This is the problem with open source media, when you let everyone play there’s also going to be someone that wants to break the rules. Unfortunately, I don’t think making people register is going to help, especially when they don’t even require email verification. As the Wikipedia continues to gain popularity this problem is only going to get worse.

Update: News.com tells why they think Wikipedia Will Survive the Strom.

I’m sure everyone is getting sick of me plugging FireFox but guess what? I don’t care.

Here’s 10 reasons why you should make the switch