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Like so many others who haven’t renounced their brains by signing up for the Google Cargo Cult in the hope of eternal page one rankings, Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing takes exception to a slew of Google antics, publishing an activist piece you are encouraged to read and adopt.

Branding Google’s latest antics for what they are: a policy of Web Apartheid and unfair segregation of millions of innocent Web sites, born out of utter hubris, arrogance and disregard by the world’s most colossal corporate parasite for the very host they’ve been thriving on for far too many years

In their pervasive effort to make life as difficult as possible for just about anyone except themselves and their antediluvial ranking technology, Google is now wagging the index finger at reciprocal linking.

There’s some indication that Google’s handling of their Supplemental Index may be in for a dramatic change in terms of links being allowed to pass anchor text in future. If confirmed, it would constitute a fairly dramatic turnaround in their ranking policy.

Here’s a new service offering tons of targeted blog comments to boost your link building efforts. However, caveat emptor: Seems they still need to address a few not-so-minor issues before they’ll actually be able to make their mark.

Essentially, Michael Martinez is revealing (well, re-uncovering, actually) a very fundamental concept all black hat SEOs (and no: I’m not implying that he’s one himself) have known about and gleefully leveraged for ages: Links do count, yes; and so does their “relevance” – but not in the nonsensical and utterly illogical way most people in SEO seem to have adopted in a concerted operation of building their cargo cult of collective techno superstitions.

This cool embedded browser can be customized and included on any web page - an ideal tool to promote your services and products, including RSS feeds. It’s even WAP compatible.

Aaron Wall writes on the basic uselessness of present day link analysis programs.

It’s not every day that you can follow the birth of a new buzzword and how it gradually begins to make out on the search engines in realtime. This is actually any linguist’s and SEO’s dream and highly educative, too.