May 17, 2012

James Ray Trial

Well I was watching CNN at lunch and saw mention of the James Ray trial and how he broken down crying so hard that the judge had to dismiss the jury and give him time to compose himself. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this but this was a guy selling a self help program where three people died in his sweat lodge. This is not a story I’ve really kept up with and actually I would have probably forgotten about it except that every once in a while I visit the Salty Droid site and he has been keeping up with it pretty well.

Normally I wouldn’t waste my time on this sort of thing but this guy with his fake tears( yes he definitely looked like he was faking) really got to me. Considering the fact that he sold his expensive program to these people and three of them died listening to his advice, then he should be held responsible. I’m sick and tired of all these so called gurus. ( Secret I worked for one and they are not all that), selling people a fantasy and then not delivering on their promises. Seems like this is becoming more and more widespread and now Mr. Ray wants to be let off and have people feel sorry for him. I’m not one of those people. He killed three people. He destroyed their lives and the lives of their families and he needs to pay. Frankly I tihnk the manslaughter charge is lite in this case. They should be trying him for murder one in my humble opinion.

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The ever going saga of how much weight links carry

One of the main items anyone can do to improve the rankings in the search engines is to build up incoming links. There has always been a discussion on how different links are counted. One of the main items that most people talk about is getting links on .edu or .gov sites as the holy grail of link building.

This is discussed on marketing forums all over the net and most people believe these links carry some sort of additional authority. Links from social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook are normally looked at as lower quality links than ones from sites such as government sites or education universities.

I guess this comes from the notion that its a lot easier to create a new profile on a social site and fill it up with links to your site than it is to obtian a link from your local college. But do these really make a difference.

Well according to Matt Cutts from Google, it does not matter. They are looking for a variety of links and while they may give more rank for a page coming from a page with a higher page rank, the actual url really plays no part. A follow link is a follow link. The higher the page rank of the linking page the more valuable it is. Seems like a good reason to build links to your profile pages on sites that are not no follow on your social networking sites.

Here is the video on this from Matt’s own mouth, so you can make up your own mind as to whether you believe him.

 

So what are your thoughts is Matt putting out disinformation? or do you believe what he says about the domain extension not having anything to do with the assignment of weight to a particular link?