I didn’t think I’d join the bitter masses, but it’s finally happened: PLDT myDSL officially sucks! 7 days now and counting.

I know you might be thinking I’m just trying to sign up to save a few bucks for the laptop I’m going to buy soon, but come on Dell! Does this blog fit any of the “unsuitable site” criteria you emailed me? Italicized comments are mine.
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Jozzua the Linkbaiter :) one of the bigger fishes who bit: SERoundtable.

I’ve just started reading the seminal A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Goshal. Their take on effective management can be summed up in two words: purposeful action, a get things done mentality, but with emphasis on both the tactical (micro) and the strategic (macro).

With the recent flurry of linkbuilding activities centered on the Isulong SEOPH keyword ranking contest, I couldn’t help but juxtapose Bruch and Goshal’s four types of managerial behavior with the general linkbuilding behavior of most SEOs. Bruch and Goshal break down managers into four types:
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One more reason to join the SEM train.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006. The 2006 first quarter revenues represent a 38 percent increase over Q1 2005 at $2.8 billion and a 6 percent increase over Q4 2005 total at $3.6 billion.

Source: IAB.net

Seth Godin: How to get traffic for your blog.

This works most of the time, when you’re out hunting bloggers without SEO inclinations:

Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.

Passing it forward works.

Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.

But I don’t get #11 and #13

11. Don’t write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
13. Write about your kids.

Can links from untrusted sites hurt my site rankings?
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I see a lot of budding linkbaiters, thanks to the Isulong SEOPH contest and Technorati. Here are some pages I want nominated to the Isulong SEOPH contest Hall of Fame:
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Funny thread at High Rankings. Link building = dating?

Looking for links is like trying to get a date. If you are desperate, nobody respectable will be interested, but if you relax and behave nicely, you’ll have plenty of success..

Remember that college crush you so desperately wanted to ask out on a date?
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While the rest of the world’s dying for links, Tiger Airways chooses to not only discourage it, they even have specific linking rules which you need to follow if you want to link to the low cost carrier’s website.

Linking to the TIGER AIRWAYS Website

TIGER AIRWAYS does not allow third party linking to any page or images within the tigerairways.com website, with the exception of the main TIGER AIRWAYS homepage (http://www.tigerairways.com). TIGER AIRWAYS does not provide permission for any other links. Pagination of the TIGER AIRWAYS website is subject to change without notice. To minimize bad links to pages that have moved or no longer exist, persons should link only to the main TIGER AIRWAYS homepage.

In lieu of a plain hypertext link, TIGER AIRWAYS also provides a TIGER AIRWAYS Logo (”Logo”) to link directly from your website to http://www.tigerairways.com.

Is that bad link building practice or what?