Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

I don’t know how to start this post really. I have a bunch of random feelings and ‘one liners ‘ in my head to explain what is happening.

Around 18 months ago I neglected to return the intentions of a man whom I have alot of contact with forcibly. I was nieve, I am not a beauty, I am not thin, or tall or distinctive. I had no idea.

He decided to one day lay the poison which still effects my progress now. I wanted him and he had to reject me….boo hoo. That was his story, and its the first thing a new employee is told, if they are male. Once at the interview stage! Madness.

His acusations burned at the time but i thought we agreed a resolution, hence I forgot about it. At the time I was getting over a love I had left behind, and he was a freind. He knows how explicit he was with me verbally and how quite alot of the time i had to say ‘You can’t say that!’ I took it tongue in cheek, laughed about it. How stupid was I. I have a self depricating charactor at the best of times and ‘miss’ the advances and male attention if I am not looking for it. I only look for it when I want it!

He still lays the poison, its all her fault, she is malicious, she does it on purpose, she ruined it…he can’t let go. If I try to aspire to anything he is their taking it away inch by inch or stealing it for his own pride. Do I shout? Do I run? No one will think I am telling the truth as men will close ranks. That type of man anyway.

I am thankful that I have found another type of man, not threatened, not judgemental and just plain lovely. There are not many men like this in the world and I had lost all hope of coming across one again. For that I am thankful.

The title of this post should read ‘The office has the rage like love to hatred turned’ He might have turned them against me or tried at least. I know some have their doubts.

I myself am at fault. I still find myself forgiving him and trying to be a freind, when I should just let him drown sometimes and not make excuses.

I did forgive him, but he still looks at me in a strange way, trys to be mean likea school girl. Making sure I feel I am no good.

I still hold all the cards, regardless of what he says to others. HE knows the truth, though self denial is a sedative.

He knows what he said to me, He knows what he wanted, He knows I never wanted him, He knows how happy and in love I am.

I am in love. If Alex asked tomorrow I would marry him. I would choose crockery, think about childrens names and all that scary stuff that only love makes you think of and do.

He he…we already have crockery - Cath Kidston Pink with white polkadots rip off from argos! Its great. A new double bed too, and smelly candles.

mmmmm….lime and grapefruit!

So the rumour is that ‘anchor links’ are the best way to improve your SEO naturally. So whats one of those?

For example this is a text link:

My favourite Jiu Jitsu Site is here

An anchor link is:

This is my favourite Jiu Jitsu site.

The keyword jiu jitsu is used and this will all be stored in googlies database. So the questions is….are you just increasing someone elses traffic with this technique or your own? Its a bit of both!

Over the past few months I have been hearing of various sites implimenting the anti-spam technique suggested by google. Sites like del.icio.us and wikipedia have now introduced the ‘no follow’ tag into their homepage. Anti-spam yes…..but as google page rank depends on the links its kinda cutting off your nose to spite your face? Or is it?

Google created the world of links SEO, forcing companies to use spam like techniques to get anywhere with google. So how does a company improve its position on the interweb?

We have gone back in time and now it is all about ‘Natural Linking’ - no automation, no spam and definatly not reciprocal!

Taking this from an enclick article byPaul Elosegui

1. Natural links are deeplinks. Links that point to specific material deep within the body of knowledge.

Deep linking is linking that points to a specific page or image within another website, as opposed to linking to a website’s main or home page. Deeplinking goes hand in hand with the long tail.

2. Natural linking is not reciprocal. Scientific papers are published sequentially in time. More recent papers reference older papers as they try and build the body of knowledge. Link exchanging, where websites exchange links, is not natural.

3. Natural links are built slowly over time. A seminal academic paper accumulates references, links, slowly over time. It is only well established highly regarded academic papers, like the discovery of DNA, that accumulate large number of references quickly.

4. Natural links make a point. Academics construct an argument around their references. So natural references are surrounded by relevant text and have specific anchor text, as each scientists tries to make his own point. The ratio of number of links to text has an upper limit, the density of links is relatively low, and the context surrounding the reference is relevant material.

5. Natural links come from everywhere. Scientists publish their research in many places. From important journals, like “Nature”, to less important conference proceedings. So, natural links come from varied sources of relevant material.

So unless you have a team of employee’s seaking out relevent links and communicating with webmasters peronally whats the fastest way to improve your page rank?

Spend alot of money….websites that have been arround a while will have the best page ranks in the end. I find this a good thing for the old school webby, but for new companies trying to get a grasp of the interwebby and improve sales, this is gonna hurt.

I am going to be watching this space, and I am going to work on my deep linking for my little business I wish to start up next year. I have 12 months, wonder if that will be enough time to get a decent page rank. I will probably make lots of web friends in the process!

I might even start a natural/deep linking experiment - leave a comment if you want to join or a link!

Brian Mark from TheOneBoxer.com claims that leads from google base to his website generated $1 Million! Google base as a free resource has done pretty well for this guy! To be honest all my traffic to rubbergirls-blue-boutique.co.uk comes from the continuous google base feed and I make like well £150 a month from it! Not quite a million but it is a small operation. Maybe I should think about google base in a non product way also? Push out other information. I will experiment and publish my results for other google basers! Try it, its free!

Does it matter? How old your domain is? When your considering its performance in page rankings? It does. Google will put a new site in a kinda ’sandbox’ period for 3-4 months before your site gets to play with the adults. If you work on your feeds, links and other SEO techniques you might come out of Googles sandbox with a decent page rank!

If you are moving your site to a new URL, don’t loose out on the traffic you have built up with your previous site! Use a 301 redirect! Want to know how? Visit here this site tells you how to insert a 301 re-direct in your header in various different code. If you want to check that its search engine friendly you can go here to verify that everything is working. Most of my applications are php so I chose the php header but creating an index.php file with this code:

Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com” );

(enclosed in the php tags but wordpress likes to kill these!)

Then you can place is a nice ‘we have moved’ message/image or use redirect javascript.

Have fun my SEO friends!