https://websitebuilding.biz/seo/web-democracy-dead/ News and guides for online business Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:37:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://websitebuilding.biz/seo/web-democracy-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-27175 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:37:30 +0000 http://websitebuilding.biz/?p=763#comment-27175 […] Also emphasized is “aggressive” link building and “link schemes.” While they won’t go in to too much detail here, the growing consensus among search watchers is that bad links are actually becoming a negative signal rather than something Google just ignores. Again, the idea is to punish websites that intentionally build links for the purpose of increasing their ranks, but I have to wonder just how accurate their analysis is. At the least, it is a big jump in the trend toward shrinking the part of the internet that gets a vote. […]

]]> https://websitebuilding.biz/seo/web-democracy-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-12818 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:46:03 +0000 http://websitebuilding.biz/?p=763#comment-12818 […] comments, site directories, and even social media sites eliminated from the link popularity charts, the number of people who actually get a vote on the internet seems to have declined despite the arrival of all these great “participatory” […]

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