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The Anti-Google Movement is Gaining Momentum | Site Reference – Internet Marketing Articles

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I have been always providing “great content” and got myriads of natural organic links plus all those things Google demands you to do. All that white hat SEO stuff people recommend to you. It doesn’t work though. Yes, I said it.

White hat SEO does not work.

You can be the whitest hat alive like I was on this blog and in the end you get a kick in your guts. Black hat SEO gets you penalized even faster but white hat SEO does as well.

The only thing that works is SEO 2.0 as in my original concept. You have to become independent of Google. You need to establish an audience on social media and direct traffic alias subscribers and returning visitors. Google is not a reliable traffic source whatsoever.

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How to Tell If Your Boss Is a Narcissist– And 5 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired by One | Forbes.com

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I learned about narcissistic personality disorder for the first time in 2003 during my training as a marriage and family therapist at Fairfield University.  When I read about the disorder and its symptoms, I was completely stunned.  I realized then that throughout my life, I’ve been plagued with the misery and suffering of having to work with a narcissist or report to one.

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5 Tips to Help You Take Advantage of Happy Hour | genxfinance.com

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What’s there not to love about Happy Hour?  It gives you a chance to wind down after work, sample food from area restaurants, and enjoy discounted drinks ranging from bottled beer to cocktails.  Despite what you may think, not all Happy Hours are created equally.  In order to fully appreciate and enjoy this type of promotion, you need to keep a few things in mind to be sure you’re really getting a deal, otherwise you could end up being lured into the restaurant with the promise of a good deal while actually spending more than you intended.

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Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad?| Scientific American.com

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What did you eat for dinner one week ago today? Chances are, you can’t quite recall. But for at least a short while after your meal, you knew exactly what you ate, and could easily remember what was on your plate in great detail. What happened to your memory between then and now? Did it slowly fade away? Or did it vanish, all at once?

Memories of visual images (e.g., dinner plates) are stored in what is called visual memory. Our minds use visual memory to perform even the simplest of computations; from remembering the face of someone we’ve just met, to remembering what time it was last we checked.

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How to Find and Attract Customers | BusinessNewsDaily.com

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New business owners might feel the world has all gone online in recent years and that the high-tech landscape has changed the very nature of the entrepreneurial game.

While there is some truth to that, the old adage that “the more things change, the more they stay the same” also applies to hooking new customers.

Winning customers for your business is an art that requires a deft hand. It demands market research, sensitivity, and effective decision-making to lure new customers and keep them coming back. The same applies whether you’re operating an online marketplace or a storefront, Martin Lehman, a retail clothing industry veteran, told BusinessNewsDaily.

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Chill.com Redesigns to Streamline Music Video Discovery | Rolling Stone.com

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Six months after launching, Los Angeles-based startup Chill has redesigned to make it easier for its 19 million registered users to find online videos.

The social video discovery site taps directly into a user’s social graph through Facebook Connect. Then the user, known as a “curator,” can browse through their friends’ collections or discover new videos based on common themes and interests.

The new Chill homepage spotlights new themed verticals for videos like popular, funny, shocking or sexy. User voting, also newly implemented, will determine which videos get featured in each vertical. Chill hopes this facelift will also help artists like Enrique Iglesias reach their fans, as music videos will be filed under the jukebox vertical.

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Caffeine — how much is too much? | MayoClinic.com

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If you rely on caffeine to wake you up and keep you going, you aren’t alone. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system, alleviating fatigue, increasing wakefulness, and improving concentration and focus.

When to consider cutting back

For most healthy adults, moderate doses of caffeine — 200 to 300 milligrams (mg), or about two to four cups of brewed coffee a day — aren’t harmful. But some circumstances may warrant limiting or even ending your caffeine routine. Read on to see if any of these apply to you

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Ancient Life-Size Lion Statues Baffle Scientists | LiveScience.com

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Two sculptures of life-size lions, each weighing about 5 tons in antiquity, have been discovered in what is now Turkey, with archaeologists perplexed over what the granite cats were used for.

One idea is that the statues, created between 1400 and 1200 B.C., were meant to be part of a monument for a sacred water spring, the researchers said.

The lifelike lions were created by the Hittites who controlled a vast empire in the region at a time when the Asiatic lion roamed the foothills of Turkey.

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