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Wickedfire continues its steady decline

one only needs to look at the alexa graphs verify this. The traffic has fallen to levels not seen since the forum was launched in May of 2006.

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In a major blow to the boo hoo hoo ers and a victory to the smarties of the web 2.0 globalist revolution the federal reserve has slashed interest rates by half a point, Obama lost the primary in Florida, and Mc Cain won the republican primary. Also, John Edwards announced his resignation this morning and yet another web 2.0 site was featured in the SF Chronicle.

Obama, Edwards Lose; McCain & Hillary win

In order to understand why the Florida outcome is so beneficial to the smarties you have to understand where the candidates stand in relation to the smarties of the new world order. The smarties who are tied to the pro-war interests are driving force behind the staggering rise in oil, gas, food prices, defense companies, coal, and gold for the past three years. Since Mc Cain and Clinton, pro war anti-timetable candidates, won the Florida primary odds are this trend of rising commoditiy prices and continued defense spending will only continue, benefiting the smarties financially. As I have predicted many times on my blog the smartist revolution ISN’T going away, and the results of the Florida primary only bolsters my argument.

John Edwards, Huckabee and Obama-three anti-economic growth, anti globalist, anti free-trade, anti-Iraq war candidates lost badly in Florida. Edwards came in third and Obama came in second by a large margin.

Economic and financial perpetualism, and the transition to a type one civilization

The transition to type 1 civilization is inevitable and the indications of this transition are already apparent. The fantastic rise of google is an example of this ,as well as the the staggering growth of online networks as well as signs of so called economic and financial ‘perpetualism’. The actual transition won’t happen for another fifty of so years.

We are entering an era of ‘economic perpetualism’ resulting from gobalization and reduction in market & economic inefficiencies. The result is a much more robust, resiliant gobal economic and marketplace system immune from crashes, bear markets, and eventually volatility. The market will become so attuned that arbiters will nullify most voliatility. Globalization will provide endless growth possibilites combined with increasingly advanced financial instuments.

At some time in the distant future when the dow is at 50,000 or so instead of seeing .1-1% daily fluctuations as we do today, .001-.01% flutuations will be the norm. There will still be volatility, but the percentage will become smaller.

Federal reserve cuts interest rates by half a point…stock market surges (and then falters in the last hour of trading)

In yet another defeat for the gloomy boo hoo hoo ers and a vitory for the smarties the fed has cut interest rates by half a point, sending the stock market higher by almost a percent. The smarties who are purponents of econpomic growth, Laissez-faire capitalism, free trade as well as entreprenurialism are therefore beneficiaries of the fed’s recent rate cutting. The middle class, on the other hand, will have to contend with increased inflation resulting in a further rise in food prices, gas prices, healthcare, and education. As I wrote in my three part series this trend is innevitable and will only continue since we’re living in an era of economic, social, and financial perpetualism with the smarties (aka The Creators) of the new world order at the helm.

In summary:
WE’RE IN A NEW ERA

WEB 2.0 IS NOT A BUBBLE

ECONOMIC PERPETUALISM IS REAL

THE STOCK MARKET WILL GO MUCH HIGHER

THE SMARTIES OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER ARE THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE TRANSITION TO A TYPE ONE CIVILIZATION

A REPUBLICAN WILL WIN IN 2008

BUY EWZ STOCK TO PROFIT OFF THE NEW ERA
Related:

The smartist era; part one, part two, part three

Every webmaster forum has pseudo experts and while they tend to be well-respected members of their communities they shouldn’t be immune to criticism.

A pseudo expert is someone who posts guides and blogs regarding various internet marketing/SEO topics while making little if any money or success in the aforementioned fields. For example, a pseudo expert may write an elaborate 2000 word guide on adult marketing that gets a positive reception, yet the original poster makes very little if any money on adult marketing. Another example would be someone who runs an SEO blog but doesn’t make any money with SEO.

Since pseudo experts are unable to make money online easily though automation (SEO, clickbank, azoogle etc) they tend to do a lot of tedious grunt work instead, usually for less than minimum wage. Such tasks include content writing, banner/logo design, directory submission, website design, wordpress installation, etc. If they were truly experts they wouldn’t have to perform grunt work but would be able to make automated income through affiliate marketing or adsense.

In addition, pseudo experts tend to create so called ‘marketing blogs’ where they ramble about internet marketing and various widgets. The only problem is that they lack the skillset to establish any meaningful reader base or monitization.

Pseudo experts also make a lot of faulty assumptions in their writings. Eli, for example, whom I respect his efforts is a pseudo expert and he reveals that by making this noobish post regarding a so called free amazon.com link.
Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics » Free Amazon.com Link. While it is obvious that astore.amazon.com is an authority site it doesn’t pass any of its link authority to the individual anazon stores. It is no different than having a blogger blog or a myspace account. True myspace and blogger are very well trusted domains, but they don’t pass any authority to thier subpages which are actually orphan pages.

Pseudo experts aren’t bad people; they are noobs though. And there is nothing with being a noob. But just don’t pass yourself off as someone with expertise when you are unable to apply it to yourself.

Examples:

SEO_mike from wickedfire: noob

Recently he began advertising an autoblog service on wickedfire whereiIn exchange for signing up for a hostgator account via an affiliate link he would set up five autoblogs on your hostgator account. The irony is that if autoblogs were so profitable he would be able to make money though the auto blogs instead of trying to hustle money from hostgator. I’m not sure how many signups Mike has gotten but I doubt he made much money. Hostgator pays affiliates $1000/referral for the first 11-19 referrals so if Mike gets 15 signups he will have made $1,500, good but nothing to write home about. Meanwhile, he has to wait 60 days before he gets his affiliate income. Making matters worse is since he already tapped the wickedfire userbase the rate of new referrals will decline and eventuall fall to zero, which makes his revenue unsustainable.

Forums are full of noobs and pseudo experts.

Another example is mixcat or mrcat who runs a crappy directory and search engine service (mixcat.com). He frequently posts obvous garbage on sitepoint and webtalkforums while pimping his website. He is the epitome of the forum noob.

Boo hoo hoo we’re in a housing bubble. Boo hoo hoo hoo new home sales fall by a record amount. Do I care? Um no..I could care less. No one cares about hsouing except the usual boo hoo hoo-ers -the same group that claim we’re in a recession, oppose free trade and globaliztion, assume web 2.0 is a bubble, and profess that housing ‘decline’ is a big deal when it really isn’t. These are the same people who loath Romney and Hillary Clinton but love Kusinish, Edwards, Ron Paul and Obama.

The truth of the matter is no one cares about falling home sales or declining home prices, especially not me or the giant funds and institutions that move wallstreet.

This morning housing data was released showing that home sales plunged by a record amount in 2007, and that home prices fell by the most since 1991. Wallstreet reacted to this news by knocking the DJIA down a few dozen points, but within a half hour the markets recovereed all the loss, and were back in positive territory. As of 11:30 AM pacific time the markets are up one percent, actually.

What does this show? That wallstreet doesn’t care about hsouing. Why? Cause it isn’t a big deal. Boo hoo hoo your house lost value. Too ****ing bad. Boo hoo hoo I can’t sell me house. no one gives a ****. Wallstreet doesn’t and neither do the fund managers or the politicians. I don’t care and neither does Hillary or Obama.

The liberal pro Obama media and pro Ron Paul libertarian blogs try to mislead gullible people into believing that somehow housing market is in dire condition and that we’re on the precipice of economic turmoil. True, housing prices are falling in some areas and some people are unable to sell their houses even at substancially discounted prices, but in other areas such as the Bay Area, Aspen, and New York housing prices continue to surge and the demand is overwhelming.
Housing is just a fraction of the overall economy. We got huuuge global growth and economic development. Massive consumer spending and credit card debt. We have a web 2.0 revolution in the Silicon Valley; a new technology and internet boom. The borders will be opened, jobs will be outsourced and insourced, and Romney will be our next president. Tuition fees will only go up, the dollar will fall further, gas prices will continue rise, as will food prices. Buy EWZ stock instead of complaining about the immaginary housing bubble or the media generated ‘recession’.

If your site has been peanalized by google it is possible to evade the penalty by 301 redirecting the old domain to a new one.

Supose your site has a sitewide penalty and you’ve tried everythign to fix it but to no avail. I guess all your hard link building efforts are wasted. Butby purchasing a new domain or using an old domain you can redirect your old penalized domain to a new one, hence restoring your old rankings.

The downside of this method is that is will take many months before your old rankings are completely restored. First google has to replace the old domain with the new one and then the new domain has to get out of the sandbox, BUT it will have no penalties attached to it. And all your pagerankis transfered to the new domain, too.

Does reading politics and voting in the 2008 elections make you feel empowered that somehow your voice counts? If so you’re a sap.  The politicians gleefully take your money with one hand and flip you the bird with the other.

In this hyper-capitalistic, economic and social continuum we’re living in you can’t rely on anyone for help. Not the government, not the politicians, not your employer, or even your family. If you want fulfillment, success and control over your destiny you must look to yourself. Instead of standing five hours in a voting line for the upcoming elections open up an Etrade or Ameritrade account so you can buy EWZ stock to profit off the globalist revolution.

Before you dismiss me as being a misanthrope, consider this scenario:

Suppose you vote in the 2008 elections and your desired candidate wins the presidency. You’re feeling pretty good. Yay democracy works! But fast forward to 2010 and you loose your job doe to insourcing or outsourcing. Do you think the politician you voted into office will do anything? We he personally speak to your employer and DEMAND your job be reinstated? Fat chance. You’re on your own. But what if you took my advice, and instead of standing in a polling line like a sausage in a conveyor belt, you bought EWZ instead at $72 a share.

The globalists/smarties of the new world order are the driving forces behind the current global economic technological boom. In sourcing and outsourcing of jobs is one of the means globalist corporations use to increase their profit margins because middle class American labor is too costly. Two years later when you’re fired you can sell your EWZ which would be trading at $150/share and live comfortably for awhile, where as otherwise you would probably be forced to apply for a degrading, dehumanizing “service sector” job.

The usual rebuttal is along the lines of “But what if everyone took your advice and stopped voting? The whole democratic system would collapse.” Um but that isn’t going to happen. Iamned only gets a couple dozen unique visitor a day. Even if my site had as much traffic as DailyKos there would still be abundance brainwashed drones of keep the gears of the political machine turning. Its not like there is a shortage of voters; just a shortage of government handouts and entitlement to appease all of them.

The point I am trying to instill is that unless you make efforts self sufficiency and stop depending on others you are stupid. Go make money online! Build that website! Open an Etrade account and buy EWZ stock. Create a web 2.0 startup and complete a round of funding. To the smartists you’re merely an disposable unit of labor that can outsourced to the lowest bidder.

Today I came across a Businessweek article about how slide.com could be worth $500 million dollars based on its latest $50 million dollar venture capital infusion. The writer, Sarah Lacy, also expresses doubts and concerns about Slide’s ability to justify its ‘lofty’ valuation in the face of adversity from competitors. Also, she cites that the $500 valuation is indicative of a bubble.

However as I have stated before we’re not in a web 2.0 bubble. I wrote about this months ago, and my argument is as robust then as it is now and will be in the future.

We’re in a second internet boom in Silicon Valley, and it won’t be anding anytime soon. Slide.com is worth five billion easily ,and as this social networking web 2.0 rally continues its valuation will only increase, and justifiably so.

Slide.com has near domination of the widget market. Its biggest competitors are photobucket which offers similar photo widget features and possibly rockyou, but since the widget market is growing at such an phenomenal, unprecedented rate there is room for multiple companies to thrive.

With regards to the article in Businessweek, Sarah Lacy, who ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, writes

But let’s get back to the question of whether Slide is worth $550 million, its evaluation including the most recent funding. At this second, the answer has to be no, by any normal valuation math. But if Levchin’s plans succeed, Slide will be worth far more. And obviously, investors are paying a premium for the team. The barriers to entry for building a widget are so low it is a Darwinian fight, and Levchin thrives in that type of situation.

She is completely wrong. Even business schools don’t churn out people this stupid.

I propose that Slide easily worth five billion dollars, ten times her low ball estimate because it has a massive, rapidly growing audience, and an iron grip of the widget market place. True the barrier to entry is very low, but it would be virtually impossible for another company to displace Slide’s enormous lead. Trying to compete with Slide is like going toe to to against Apple’s Ipod, Google, Ebay’s Paypal or Microsoft Windows. You can’t.

A company with as large of an audience as slide can be treated as a full fledged media company like CNN or Fox News. As long as you have the eyeballs you can serve ads and make money. And Slide.com has millions upon millions of them with no end in sight. CNN can charge advertisers based on their reach, thus leveraging their audience to make money. Slide is no different.

Where do I derive the five billion? Facebook is worth $15-30 billion and myspace is worth between $10-30 billion. Those sites have between 60-300 million users, so would it be a far stretch to assume that based on those valuations that slide.com is worth at least five billion dollars? If Slide was offered $500 million dollars for a buyout I can guarantee they wouldn’t take it because there is still so much potential.

Each and everyone of these web 2.0 doubters and bubble heads who try to dismiss everything as a bubble remind me of the same people that wrote off Amazon.com off for dead in 2002 when its stock was at $10 (it now trades at $80). Or the people that said facebook wasnt worth a $1 billion in 2006 (now worth 16 billion). They were wrong then, are wrong now, and will continue to be wrong in the future.

Bay Area real estate is going to keep going up. Palo Alto and San Jose. Mountain View, home of the googleplex, and Menlo Park. Silicon Valley world capital of innovation and technology. Gas $5 a gallon soon. $7 Starbucks espresso lattes. The new era still lives on. The revolution is as real as Slide’s $5 billion dollar valuation.

I wish I could offer my readers more specifics about making money online instead of ranting about smarties and the web 2.0 revolution.

I know what readers want. They want SPECIFICS. They want to know how to rank higher in google and yahoo and how to get more traffic for less money and work. They want to know which affiliate programs to promote, which have the highest ROI (return on investment).

Here is the problem. I don’t know the answers to those questions.  If anyone does, they aren’t going to disclose them on a blog anyway.

I could write tutorials, but I woudn’t a very good job at it. Slightlyshadyseo  has some great tutorials on improving your affilaite marketing efforts if you’re wondering where to find some.

Search engines are still hopelessly confusing. For example, I can rank my website coolonlinelayouts.com in Yahoo for the following semi-competitive keywords; Skinny Myspace Layouts and Default Myspace Layouts but in Google the site doesn’t rank well for any keywords. On the other hand, Myspace-resource.info doesn’t rank well in yahoo at all but ranks well in MSN.

Both sites have simlar content and similar domain age. Myspace-resource.info has many more inbound links than coolonlinelayouts but for some reason yahoo is favoring the later site while shunning myspace-resource.info. Makes no ****ing sense to me.

This is why I can’t offer more because the world of SEO and internet marketing is so confounding and dynamic, unlike physics and mathematics which has immutable axioms and laws.

Two weeks ago I wrote the third and final segment of my series on the web 2.0 smartist revolution, but it appears the revolution will have to be put on hold. In that article I recommended several stocks to buy to profit off the revolution, but in the past two weeks the stock market has cratered on economic fears and uncertainty. The Nasdaq has lost nearly nine percent since January and many of the stocks I recommended have fallen between 10-30 percent in that time.

As a result I have sustained a lot of losses.

The revolution is real, though. Web 2.0 isn’t a bubble. Th new era of smartism and spendism and consumerism and hyper capitalism ISN’T going away.

Romney will win in 2008

I repeat..

ROMNEY WILL WIN IN 2008
I don’t give a flying **** the boo hoo hoo-ers complaining of recession, decline in middle class, loss of jobs, outsourcing, insourcing, rising food costs, rising gas prices, or the Iraq war going on too long. Romney will win cause we’re in the new era. An era of hyper-capitalism and spendism.Massive consumer spending, credit cad debt, and global corporate growth. We’re NOT in the era of entitlement. The government won’t hold your hand or give you a handout.

Can’t find a job? Lose your job? TOO ****ING BAD.

Can’t make ends meat? Go **** yourself. Am I coming across as too crass? Insensitive? It’s the TRUTH. No one gives a **** about your predicament. The gov.doesn’t care and neither do the candidates.
Pain at the pump? Thank exxon, the Iraq war, and the global demand for oil.

Iraq war WILL continue. And then it will spread to Iran.

Hillary or Obama WON’T pull out even if they should win by accident.

And Romney and McCain support the war and have NO withdraw any timetable plan. As a result, oil prices, gas prices, and commodity prices will only continue to rise.

Web 2.0 is here to stay. The boo hoo hoo-ers who call it a bubble are jealous of the astonishing success of web 2.0 entrepreneurs. Facebook will go public and be worth 200 billion in two years. Google stock will double. The web 2.0 detractors are the same people who support Ron Paul or Obama ,-an anti- economic growth anti- free trade, isolationist candidate.

Hyper-Capitalism is here to stay. The minimum wage is here to stay. Rising gas prices and food prices are here to stay. We’re in a social, financial, and economic continuum.

Illegal immigration is here to stay. Regardless if your stance, in the globalist smartist hyper-capitalist, free trade society it is inevitable.

Get used to it.

I’m not throwing in the towel. I stand by these convictions.

I was performing some google searches for various SEO related topics and I came across yet another morsel of stupidity and noobishness from another so called ’seo consultant’. Yesterday I had thought I have witnessed the pinnacle of SEO-blogger idiocy, but this entry takes the cake.

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.joe-whyte.com/2007/02/03/google-filters-how-to-get-around-them-and-exploit-their-loop-holes/

Although atleast 95 percent of the article is useless, erroneous garbage here are some experpts I found to be the most egregious:

Google Sandbox: The Sandbox Filter is usually applied to brand new websites but has been seen to be applied to domains that have been around for a while. Since most websites do not make it past a year Google implemented a filter that will prevent a new site from getting decent rankings for competitive keyword terms. Usually brand new sites can still rank for non competitive keyword terms though.

Ok this is the 5% of the article I agree with…

But he goes on…

How to work around the Sandbox: Google uses a system called trust rank. The idea behind trust rank is if authority sites link to your new site then you must be an authority site as well and since Google trust’s these older more respected sites it will trust your’s as well. Hence getting you out of the sandbox right away. That is not an easy thing to do so if you are not able to get these links then try expanding your content to rank for many more less competitive keywords and keyword phrases (long tail keywords).

Here is the where Whyte is dead wrong. YOU CAN’T BUY YOUR WAY OUT OF THE SAND BOX. YOU CAN’T. That is a big steaming load of bullshit. The whole reason why google created the sandbox and other filters in the first place was to prevent shady search engine spammers buying authority links from link brokers to buy their way into high rankings. Before the Florida update you could purchase high authority links and rank instantly for competitive keywords, but not anymore. If you do rank high with a new site it will only be temporary. Once the filters and sandbox kicks in your rankings will fall drastically.

Here is another example of Whyte’s noobishness:

Google -30: This Google filter is applied to site’s who use spammy seo tactics. When Google find you using doorway pages, java redirects etc then they will drop your rankings by 30 spots.

How to get around this: If you find yourself a victim of the Google -30 filter then usually just removing the spam elements on your site will get you back in. You can always fill out a request for re-inclusion is worse comes to worse. Here are some resources for the Google -30.
First he completely ignores the -950 penalty which is much more severe and possibly more common Google penalty. Second, why would anyone want to use a java redirect in the first place when they can use a PHP or a 301 redirect, which is search engine friendly? What a poor example. Most penalties are given for more less obvious reasons than careless redirects.
Also, the google reinclusion form is WORTHLESS. There is no proof that submitting such a request will undo a penatly because I doubt that a human actually reads them. It’s like writing a letter to Santa.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Overall, it is obvious that Joe Whyte is as clueless about SEO, and the internet in general. But since I want to end this article on a positive and constuctive note here is a book that I recommend to Joe Whyte. If that is still too advanced I suggest starting with the basics.