Sometimes I wonder if all the hardwork to become an “authority” in a certain fields is worth the effort. Especially when you become a target of a negative campaign. I really don’t get it, and why people would do this to someone that has only brought great information to the table.

Anyone that reads this blog knows that I hold Jim Boykin in the highest of regards and think is flat out the “jedi master ninja” when it comes to link building and link authority information. Earlier this week Jim posted about a smear campaign against him, and it really got me thinking about the downsides to really becoming an “authority”. So why would someone want to trash his name? (more…)

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If you are even remotely watching your rss right now you would notice that nearly everyone in the seo blogsphere is talking about Jennifer Laycock and her blog The Lactivist getting hit with a letter from Jennifer Daniel Collins an Attorney at Faegre & Benson who represents the National Pork Council. The letter in short says, “use of the phrase “the other white milk” violates their trademark on the phrase “the other white meat.” As such, they’ve demanded that I remove the shirt, demanded that the image of the shirt be removed from any site I know of, demanded that I destroy any shirts that exist with the logo and demand that I not at any point in the future use the phrase in a commercially profitable way.” (more…)

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