Google Update Coming?

Funny stuff Minstrel

 

Ummm....stupid question!

What is Google?

 

You're the weakest link...

 

... sorry, I just had a brain fart!

 

Well shit for brains they say.

Are there any threads on this forum that stay on topic anymore or does Anthony hijack them all and turn them into circuses?

I would never throw you off the forum Anthony for expressing some of your rather unusal theories and positions, but I might vote you off if you just hijack every thread. I like a laugh as much as the next guy, but some subjects deserve being discussed and as soon as you jump in that become almost impossible.

 

You'd be surprised - The number of times I have got the fear as a result of Google is uncountable(sp?!?!)

 

Then why do some high rankings sites not change position over a long period of time?

The practice of SEO is as varied as those who practice it, and perhaps the great majority of SEOs are only "rankers" who really can not be called marketers.

I can understand someone manipulating a search engines results, but not the search engine itself, thus the term search engine manipulator is at best erroneous.

 

No I can't Shawn and that's why I consider the phrase to be a non sequitur, and thus kind of a strange description.

 

A silver-tongued devil, as always...

Really? I have a very hard time imagine you even smiling, let alone laughing...

I think most people can have a chuckle, digress a bit, and still remember what was being discussed. And when you've pretty much come to the end of a discussion anyway, what's the harm?

 

SEO, SEM, SERP/SERPs... there are many odd and not entirely logical terms in the world of website promotion... I'm not sure that SEM or SEO are unusual in that respect. Every industry/trade/profession has its jargon; what's important is that other people in the same profession understand what is meant by the term, that's all.

 

I have to disagree Minstrel, IMO one should strive to make his communications understandable to anyone who reads them, and thus using descriptive terms which do not describe what they are meant to is not the best practice.

 

Mel, that's a little like saying I disagree with slang and I don't think people should use it. My point was that jargon, abbreviations, slang terms, and unique words or phrases are common to every profession, trade, or industry. People create and use these terms because they are shortcuts to communication and everyone within the trade or profession understand what they mean. I can't think of a single exception to this. If I am talking to psychiatrists or psychologists, it isn't a matter of concern to me whether plumbers or systems analysts or physicists have the vaguest notion about our conversation -- it is a shortcut to communication among our group. It's the same with terms like SEO or SEM or SERPs when people discuss website promotion and search engines.

 

It is just those wild avatars that I have been using Compar, that could be one answer as to why I go off track when discussing subjects.

I have always been a bad influence on everyone I have come into contact with and I am sorry for that.

It is just the era I came from Bob, we really did not care what folks thought of us because we were bad, we knew it, no one was better, no one was smarter.

When I found out there were guys light years ahead of me that I would never catch up to like Shawn, all of those "I'm bad, they ain't" thoughts were shot down.

Now I have to resort to something since I really am not the sharpest blade in the box, I guess I just use comedy to take the focus off of my lack in the brains department.

I will try to do better down the road as far as staying on topic, but I did not start it, Minstrel and Dodger those new guys did, blame them

 

It's true. I'll take full responsibility. Anthony was trying to stay on topic (although not necessarily the topic in this forum) and I distracted him.

 

I guess thats fine if you are restricting your communication to only one group, but as I understand forums they are not only directed at a professional group but at newcomers who want to learn.

Secondly if we are going to have SEM as an acronym, does is now stand for search engine marketing or search engine manipulation?

 

Okay. One of the things they need to learn is the jargon or they are going to be well and truly lost...

I think it's pretty clear that "search engine manipulation" was meant as a joke or sarcasm... at least in terms of defining the acronym.

 

Lol 2004 thread are you kidding me ? )))

 

Google has always said not to worry too much about PR updates, but to focus on getting quality backlinks and building content