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It’s Not Goodbye…..It’s Till I See You Again!!!!

Wow! What a wonderful journey I have been on for the past 1 ½ years living the dream in Park City, UT. As most of you know I came to Park City in June of 2010. Having driven 2,500 miles from Palm Beach Gardens, FL to UT was just the first of my challenges. Upon arriving and getting my housing situation settled I needed to begin my new life. So here is my Park City story….

Standard practices of building links to your website have now shifted considerable from the old days of FFA’s and other illegitimate practices; webmasters have the latest Google Panda update to thank for that. If you were one of the unlucky 35% of the world’s websites to receive some form of penalty in Page Rank or organic placement, I’d be willing to wager that your linkage had perhaps better than 40% of the reasoning involved with the penalty. Sure, before you could buy your links from anywhere, place them anywhere and Google would deem your site popular simply due to the quantity of links regardless of relevance. This trend is over, and leading into 2012, webmasters better be slightly more ‘pragmatic’ in link building or face a certain organic demise.

Sure, no one has a clear crystal ball that can predict what the search engines will and won’t do in the future. However, it is possible to extrapolate from their activities over the past few years and identify the trends that are pretty much guaranteed to continue going forward, and that’s what we’re bringing you today – five clear facts about the future of SEO that we believe will heavily influence which sites that succeed in the long run.

Getting your voice heard on the internet is never easy. It can be like setting up your soapbox on a crowded street, and waving frantically to get passers-by to pay attention. You might be an expert in your chosen topic, with pearls of wisdom to dispense on X particles or Z-list celebrities, but how do you get people to stop long enough to listen?