But it is OK for Google to show up as a sponsor themselves on Link Sales forums? Don’t think so. Why do they themselves sell ads to text link brokers? Disinformation is the fuel that burns the fire of Google.

If you are concerned about Google Chrome sending privacy related info – private data to Google servers, please note that Google Chrome is a fully open source application. You can ask a fellow programmer to look into the code to check if there is any such thing.

I really liked your post. Especially the part about Google co-ordinating with del.icio.us, to check if the deductions they made from privately bookmarked pages are accurate or not, is a simple solution.

Thanks.

1st. google cannot ever add the weight of their bookmarking service for one main reason…..not everybody uses google bookmarks. i know that was just an idea you had but, im here to say that i dont think that would ever happen. imagine if your great site was on page 10 of the serps and a new 1 day old wordpress.com blog (within the same niche) with one post was on page one just because they added their blog to google bookmarks?? so that wouldnt work.

2nd. Hmm as far as the seo you said that should only be used professionally on sites to make it more user friendly. and this is true. But come on, properly utilizing seo on blogs can make one very wealthy. im sure you know this being and affiliate marketer yourself. theres no way anybody can make money without utilizing some good seo secrets that the average blogger doesnt know about. theres a different between between blackhat and whitehat seo….and from my own personal experience you can still rank high in the serps using strictly white hat seo, although some may still consider your site unethical…heres an example.

i own self hosted wordpress blogs maybe 3 that i really work on, i chase rss subscribers and all the other “blogging BS”. a great design, and multiple post a week. and i rank high in the serps from alot of my search terms.
now i also have a ton of free blogger blogs, these are mainly my money making blogs. umm without giving to much info i use a ton of whitehat seo tactics that will push my blogs to the top of the serps. i really dont use blackhat, i have before but not really. now on those blogger blogs, i will (legally) do everything i can to rank for my longtail keywords, which automatically ranks me for my main keywords, now on some of these sites you definitely will find some poorly written content, without spellcheck, and alot of bold letters, and other white hat seo tactics. the point of those blogs are to get people to the site and help them locate a great business (my adsense ads) that pertains to what they were initially searching for. i guess im the middle man.

my point is that you should specify to your readers that they can do seo themselves and still rank extremely well even without the use of blackhat. you should also clarify the difference between blackhat and white hat, your readers want to make money to and there are many ways for them to do so. and using seo is one good way to help them make that money.

like i said im not really dissing you, im just all about giving people what they need. im not a guru mmo. i make money using bans, blogger blogs, and wordpress blogs, i dont do affiliate marketing. but i do know alot about how to get my sites to the top of google, regardless of the niche or competition. and im sure your readers want to know the same.

here are a few things i do that have helped me….
use a keyword density of 5%-10%
put keywords in domain name, post titles, first paragraph and last paragraph
use bold, italics, underline, and red letters to show search engines whats most important on your blog.
if your blog is based on one niche or keyword add a link to each post to your homepage using your keyword as the anchor text.
CONTENT IS NOT KING—-but backlinks are. i promise i can outrank a well written post with a sloppy post using all ebonics with multiple backlinks.
dont worry about readers-they just use your bandwidht you want buyers, someone whose going to come to your site and buy something or click an ad…this is how you make money not by getting a billion rss subscribers.

well that was just a few basic tips, i dont think any of that was bad seo methods yet it will help you make money…stuff like that should be clarified….thanks gary

It is unfortunate to see how many blog comments and forum posts that instead of focusing on what someone said the discussion turns into an off topic conversation about nothing….

I’m in time luck so I’ll reduce all to the minimum.

The search engine systems will continue to be gamed, it’s in human nature to try to crack systems and find a shortcut. Though I think you don’t need to create fictitious identities, label are there to categorize and to be filtered, so you can assign a label (for example let’s say “a”) to all sites you have submitted only for the SEO. Anytime you see that label you know you have to pass over.

Your digitalfingerprint concept is interesting, altough i think it isn’t good for rank your sites better. I try to explain the concept better.

I’m of the opinion that the search results should be the same for me and for you if both are searching for the same keyphrase. What I think could be personalized (and Google could use your fingerprint for) is to provide ASIDE customized ADS. I think Google is already doing something like this, because it happens to me that when i surf the net i get sometimes Adsense Ads which have NO relevancy with the page on which they are displayed, but they have with the pages I’ve visited recently.

Finally, at the cost to be tedious, I repeat a concept which I can’t stress enough: if you want to rank well, concentrate on gaining oneway backlinks (…of course given good content).

ciao
alexander

I believe that Google will eventually thwart additional efforts against Internet users who attempt to mastermind their system by creating fictitious identities, or rather false digital fingerprints, which would then be used for the purpose of exploiting Google’s revised algorithm.

Doesn’t having multiple profiles on the various social networks sort of fit the category of “gaming the system”? It would seem like you are creating multiple digital fingerprints. How is Google supposed to know which one is the “real” Garry?

As I begin to have more than one site, do you believe it is okay to have a profile custom tailored for each niche?

Also, did you have a falling out with Text-link-Ads? I was reading an old post and you referenced loving Text-Link-Ads (back in 07 sometime? I only ask because I’ve seen other blogs use them and was curious if it was a good program to add. And same with Pay-Per-Post type services.

I am too busy keeping my business on track to keep tabs on any of the skullduggery that goes on.

and that is how it should be. It’s the smaller groups of people who place focus on trying to cheat the system rather than to allow the system to naturally do what it was designed to do. Take your blog for example. You write some really great stuff. In due time as that content gets older and more and more people visit your pages, read them and link to them, soon they will become more and more established and your content will have more visibility to others within search engines.