October 4th, 2006
Humans are creatures of habit. We find a few sites we deem valuable…we may subscribe to them and in the end we end up checking them periodically out of, well, habit.
Habit is familiarity and familiarity breeds trust and trust is not always earned.
Everyday I read blogs about the SEO industry from a handful of sites that are now fed to me. I have grown to become quite familar with them and at times, I even trust them. Trust is not a bad thing especially if the blog has in many respects “earned” it. But as my favorite professor in college used to say, “Beware of people who sound like they know what they are talking about.” He was talking about politicians of course but I find this analogy to be quite relevant in life.
Sometimes the blogs we trust can, “Sound like they know what they are talking about,” when in fact they may not.
Get a fresh look every now and then, search other sites on the same topic, read comments and follow up by checking out the sites of those who comment intelligently. The point is; Don’t believe everything you read.
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September 29th, 2006
Alright the time has come for me to ask?
What is going on with Wikipedia? I know there has been much talk in the blogosphere about the amazing occurence of them showing up in Google’s top results but there is something else that disturbs me. Who is messing with or editing out the legitimate external link contributions?
For example, in the spirit of wiki-dom I decided to share what I thought to be a very good external link on a wikipedia page. I even went as far as too submit it to the Wikipedia help-desk to gain their approval. They thanked me for asking before I submitted the link and told me that they too thought it would be a genuine addition to the page in question.
I noticed that my link was on there for a couple of weeks and then I stopped keeping track. About a month later I went back to the page and found that not only had the external link I contributed been erased but a ridiculous link was now at the top of the list. “Okay,” I thought to myself. “This ridiculous link must have just been added and the Wikipedia staff has yet to find it.” But as I returned to this page for the following three weeks I found that the ridiculous link was still on top of the external link list. So what’s going on here? Who really is controlling this thing? Has Wikipedia strayed completely from the wiki path? It gives me dim hope for the new site Citizendium.
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