If you didn’t get the title reference you’ve got to check out Red Stripe’s hilarious ad campaign.

There have been lawsuits going around against companies that physically edit portions of movies and rent them to the general public. Directors and artists associated with these films feel that these edited films compromise their artistic license.

I couldn’t really empathize until this morning when I discovered that Associated Content edited the carefully crafted articles that I’d submitted to their site (changed titles, links, etc). You are allowed to add pertinent links as appendages to articles, but for internet marketing purposes these links don’t hold much weight. No anchor text=no bueno.

Jeers to Associated Content for editing anything beyond punctuation and grammar.

If there is one thing I’m sure of, it’s that SEO is not an exact science.

One of the main purposes of this blog is to serve as a repository of information that I learn and gather from the constant trial and error that this business requires. Today I’m toying with original content, for example. As fas as internet marketing goes, almost nothing beats it. What is difficult to quantify, however, is how its placement affects its potency. In regards to link value, how much better is an article that’s submitted to a site with relevant content than the same article submitted to a generic article submission site? Of course it’s better, but how much?

While I conduct an ongoing search for that answer (that I’ll be sure to chronicle), you can read a Jim Boykin rant that has to do (sometimes) with this subject.

P.S. The Link Ninja eats Link Monkeys for breakfast.

So today I downloaded a trial version of Directory Submitter (v2.4 Demo). I’ve always been wary of this type of link building, but I’m working on some in-house projects that wouldn’t be harmed by its potential negative effects…so I thought I’d give it a try. It seems that a common concern with this type of software is, “will I get my site kicked out of the index by Google if I use a directory submitter program?” The reason that they’re typically worried is that they think that with the click of a button, this software will instantly add hundreds of backlinks to their chosen site. Well, you can rest assured that this is not at all the case (don’t pretend you’re not a little disappointed to hear that). Even with this software, the submitting process is laborious. Yes, it does fill in form entries with preset information, but no, it cannot fill in the tedious “are you indeed human?” verification boxes. It does, however, provide a nice list of ‘FFA or better’ places to submit your links. So overall its a mediocre tool. Not too fast to get one kicked out of the index, but perhaps not fast enough to be worth your time.

Keep an eye on the Link Ninja. He has an eye on you.