Austin Carr at FastCompany has a nice article regarding Goog's "swing and a miss" trying to swat content farms. You can read the article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1732707/d...farm-pesticide
Basically this lends support to the idea that Goog does pick winners and losers. A company with a $1.5B market cap has a lot more to lose than many smaller ones that Goog ultimately penalized. So just in financial markets we are learning that you can be...

There is a lot of interesting speculation about who the winners and losers are from Google's major algorithm change targeting content farms.

Several big SEO firms claim EzineArticles is one of the big losers and that it has lost 90 percent of its high search rankings.

Ouch.

Using that information I wrote a Google Farmers SEO Update on one of my other blogs. That post has a lot of SEO information so you may want to check it out.

But now I am going...

As many of you are aware, I was mentored by Clayton Makepeace. And lately I've received quite a few e-mails asking me if I also take on copy cubs.

Unfortunately, the answer is: "Not at this time."

I do plan to have a copy cub system in place by next year. And at that time, I'll screen potential copy cubs by reviewing their resumes/CVs, samples, and/or having them complete a sample assignment.

In the meantime, I do offer a few options for the aspiring...

Hey, my good friend Ryan Deiss just
emailed me that over the past few weeks the
self-riotous eggheads at Google adwords
have banned the accounts of over 15,000
direct marketers.

Banned for life! Some of the most straight
up marketers he knows. No reasoning, nothing.

Just an email saying go away.

Fortunately, Ryan had a plan...

See where he is getting the lion's share of
his traffic now days (it...

Google Adwords sucks, and it was just a
matter of time until someone came along to
knock them off their high horse and folks...

That’s Facebook. They are OWNING Google
in the Advertising space right now and they
are just warming up...

Click the link below for the full story:

Facebook OWNS Google!

My friend Ryan Deiss has officially FIRED
Google for search advertising and switched
my entire budget...