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Google will likely hit them with a manual penalty eventually. I do not see their business model working for too long. As their notoriety grows, Google will notice. And I am sure Google already HAS noticed and that we'll be seeing steps taken within the next few months.

@rackfinity017 For Reddit at large? Or for your company? Generally, you can get valuable back-links through local directory listings, analyzing your top-ranked competition with Alexa for where their best links are located and try to get those, and there is more complex outreach-based techniques...

@macbosch But that isn't true really - not if you want to rank for competitive keywords. You need a strong external back linking strategy in place or there is little hope. It's much more about hard work than the "5 secret silver bullet ranking tricks that Google hates," but it still takes skill...

@embemboo You dummy. I said that in my post. Also, you're really not a dummy. But here is further reading that you might appreciate that is straight from the horse's mouth about content versus links (Hint: they're tied for first place)...

@sdabeliever Is often only "plagiarized" from a collegiate point of view. On the interwebz, they call it "curated" content... If duplicate content is found, it is the original source that Google found first that gets the most ranking. Duplicate content can hurt a site's ranking, but from what...

@mickiel Content is the number 1 ranking factor, but that doesn't necessarily outrank your peers on its own - it groups you together more than anything. Dentists in San Diego will all have somewhat similar content (in a general sense), which will have completely different content than Self...

Hi guys, Frequent contributor of r/Entrepreneur and long-time lurker of r/Startups here. I own a marketing agency, and there's some pretty industry-specific news that has recently hit that is making big waves for all of my clients' websites. Google released it's new Panda 4.0 Algorithm, and it...

@david143 Aha no problem. Let me know if you need anything more!

@david143 It's your lucky day, aha. I actually wrote an extensive post about cold calls, my process, and my script! Here is the link to the reddit post (#4 of all time on Entrepreneur subreddit): Also, for BNI, there are 2 costs - Breakfast dues and a yearly membership. Breakfast dues...

@ray34iyf Cold calls for my first 6 clients, and then I found a professional referral organization called BNI, and that really helped catapult my referrals. I'd highly recommend looking into BNI! Now, we get a lot of referrals via networking relationships built over time and calls from SEO/Yelp...

@ray34iyf Aha got it! Let me know how it goes :)

@ray34iyf I developed this post: Cold Calls: How I Went From Nothing to $120k/Year Solo On the entrepreneur forum about 2 weeks ago. It is now the 6th top post of all time on that forum. I'd highly recommend reading through it, as I sold websites, and I developed a marketing agency out of my...