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The hereditary and genetic risk of breast cancer.
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Screening for breast cancer should concern all women at some point in their life. In cases of a family history of breast cancer, an oncogenetic consultation may be offered. The identification of a genetic predisposition enables specific management strategies for the woman to be drawn up.
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Breast Cancer Risk - From Genetics to Molecular Understanding of Pathogenesis.
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Attitudes and compliance of clinical management after genetic testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer among high-risk Southern Chinese females with breast cancer history.
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Hormone Therapy in Preventing Endometrial Carcinogenesis (Cancer) in Women With a Genetic Risk For Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colon Cancer
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Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple
A hereditary disease characterized by multiple ectodermal, mesodermal, and endodermal nevoid and neoplastic anomalies. Facial trichilemmomas and papillomatous papules of the oral mucosa are the most characteristic lesions. Individuals with this syndrome have a high risk of BREAST CANCER; THYROID CANCER; and ENDOMETRIAL CANCER. This syndrome is associated with mutations in the gene for PTEN PHOSPHATASE.
A synthetic retinoid that is used orally as a chemopreventive against prostate cancer and in women at risk of developing contralateral breast cancer. It is also effective as an antineoplastic agent.
Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms
Metastatic breast cancer characterized by EDEMA and ERYTHEMA of the affected breast due to LYMPHATIC METASTASIS and eventual obstruction of LYMPHATIC VESSELS by the cancer cells.
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A infiltrating (invasive) breast cancer, relatively uncommon, accounting for only 5%-10% of breast tumors in most series. It is often an area of ill-defined thickening in the breast, in contrast to the dominant lump characteristic of ductal carcinoma. It is typically composed of small cells in a linear arrangement with a tendency to grow around ducts and lobules. There is likelihood of axillary nodal involvement with metastasis to meningeal and serosal surfaces. (DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1205)
Carbohydrate antigen elevated in patients with tumors of the breast, ovary, lung, and prostate as well as other disorders. The mucin is expressed normally by most glandular epithelia but shows particularly increased expression in the breast at lactation and in malignancy. It is thus an established serum marker for breast cancer.

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Elegua (also spelled as Eleguá, Eleggua, or Ellegua) is an Orisha in the Yorùbá religion and related New World traditions.
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Practitioners often have a clay head with cowrie shells for eyes and mouth, as a representation of Elegua, which receives offerings and protects in return.
Santería practitioners often have an Elegua head behind their front door as he protects the entry way and prevents harm from entering the home.
Receiving a consecrated Elegua head is part of the Santería initiation known as Los Guerreros (the Warriors).
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Damon and Stefan got into it in our latest edition of The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest, as numerous readers weighed in on the following photo.
We thank each and every one of them for their time and participation, but, alas, there can only be one winner each week. And that honor here goes to... Winchiwitch! Read this user's entry underneath the picture now - it's short, but sweet; simply, but funny - and don't get discouraged if you didn't win.
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Stefan: Thank God you're here. My nose has been itching for hours.
Stefan : Damn u smell good bro. Damon : If you want to smell like me, look like me,you have to be me and Stef, you aint no Damon Salvatore Stefan : Brother the ego on you. I wouldn't want to be anyones 2nd choice but you can have Elena, now let me go. Klaus and I have some ppl to kill. Too much blood, so little time.
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Stefan: How's Elena doing?
Damon: You know Elena. Going to school, writing in her diary, looking after Jeremy, sharing her bed with me.
Stefan: Yeah, that sounds like Ele . . . wait, what?
Stefan: You can't keep me locked up in here,Damon.
Damon: Why not?
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Damon: Then, I'll protect her.
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The federal investigation was disclosed in August, after a Miami grand jury issued a subpoena to Porter Fischer, the former clinic employee who leaked documents to New Times showing A-Rod and others were buying performance-enhancing drugs from Bosch. Fischer is cooperating with the feds and has shared boxes of those documents with prosecutors; the feds reportedly might try to build a case that Bosch sold drugs to high school athletes. (A spokeswoman for Bosch and his attorney, Susy Ribero-Ayala, declined to comment for this story.)
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can taste the freshness of the seeds. It will be even better if it's a little less salty.
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a hint of saltiness and only slight seasoning. i think i finished this in 3 days because i couldn't put it down.
Light and crunchy
Posted by abbyiherb on Jul 09, 2010
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This is a great snack. Light, crunchy and hits the spot when I just a little something to munch on.
no shells!
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These taste great and are good to help prevent prostate cancer I've been told.


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Oh, pastor… what a great sermon.
The church grows year after year.
Watch out.
Ever met a haughty pastor?
Or an entitled one?
We all have.
But how do you make sure you don't become entitled or haughty?
Carlos Whitaker has five suggestions:
1. Don't have a reserved parking space until you are old enough that you can't walk.
2. Stay out of your little green room/private dressing room as much as possible.
3. Have coffee/breakfast/lunch once a week with a pastor of a church WAY smaller than yours.
4. If you receive double honor, make sure you give out quadruple honor.
5. Treat applause like a shot of whiskey. After you take a shot… don't tweet, text anyone, or believe you are as attractive as the shot makes you feel.
In other words… don't let it go to your head.
Andy Stanley talked brilliantly about this at Catalyst this year.
Think about it. What perks do you have because of your position?
What would you do if that perk was taken away or changed significantly?
How do you keep things in balance so you don't get too full of yourself?
I love this, Todd.
As someone who ministers to Small Church pastors, I can tell you that Carlos Whittaker's third point, "Have coffee/breakfast/lunch once a week with a pastor of a church WAY smaller than yours." would help both pastors tremendously. I think we'd have far fewer burnouts among Small Church pastors and more well-balanced big church pastors if that happened.
But that has to be initiated by the big church pastor. (And in most cases, they'll need to treat.)
Is this really a problem that many pastors have? Of all my pastor friends, I rarely see this. One guy in the past 15 years.
I was at a church where a worker got fired for parking his truck in the pastors parking space to unload supplies for a conference.
Sad. I've always figured the pastor should set the example for the rest of the congregation by parking as far away as possible so guests will have the closest spots. Made for a rainy/snowy run to the door at times, but it was worth it.
I got here by reading your responses to a female blogger named Rachel Held Evans. Perhaps you should add not being condescending and exclusive- particularly in public tweets. That was ugly. You really should work harder to include more women in your conferences, we are the majority after all.
Dude- you are so meta. I'm assuming that's how this post makes sense in context of your twitter behavior to RHE. First you write this killer post about not being full of yourself as a pastor and Man of God, then you follow up a few days later by illustrating the exact type of behavior to avoid! It's freakin' brilliant! …that is what you were doing, right?
This list is so ridiculously petty, it wreaks of the very thing you're trying to avoid. Do you know how this sounds to me? #1 My church doesn't even have parking spaces. #2 My "green room" is my bedroom, and my parish doesn't know what a green room is much less have space for one in the building. #3 I'm that pastor with the church "WAY smaller". Don't come to me to get your humble pie num-nums. #4 Double honor with quadruple honor…how about just saying, Thank you! And #5 Treat applause like Jesus Christ is standing right behind you and get out of the way.
How about serving the poor? Giving til it hurts? Avoiding honor in the first place? If you want to be humble, undermine what would otherwise promote your own success, like preaching in the desert, trying to keep people quiet about the good things you do…oh and not posting obnoxious tweets.
I also got here by reading your responses to a female writer named Rachel Held Evans. Your tweets were rude, condescending, and obnoxious. It reminded me of the old adage that a woman's place in in the home. Do you not think that women may have something to say about prayer, social justice, spiritual disciplines, and unity in the church? Do my XX chromosomes limit me to only speaking about pregnancy, abortion, and other "female" matters?
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Since 2005 the Festival has regularly attracted over 3,000 people each year, from serious followers of the arts to schools, families and children of all ages and has raised significant profile and over £50,000 for Dorchester Abbey and local charities.
The Festival focuses on professional events with an intentionally broad appeal making links with local businesses and schools, encouraging many people to get involved with the arts for the first time.
We have played host to many famous orchestras and popular bands, from the Tallis Scholars to a sellout drumming workshop with Phil Selway of Radiohead and a Come and Sing with John Rutter. We have welcomed famous authors such as Philip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo and Colin Dexter, and many well known celebrities such as Douglas Hodge, Raymond Blanc, Peter Guinness, who all gave their time free of charge to support our cause.
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Stephen Merchant, the tall fellow sometimes found near Ricky Gervais (he co-wrote and co-directed "The Office" and "Extras," and costarred in the latter), has put himself out front in his own HBO series. Created with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (writers for the American "The Office"), it is called "Hello Ladies," and it is funny and disturbing in exactly the manner and proportions one would expect from his earlier works.
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History of Rock: The 50s, Pt. 2 is a much more varied collection than the previous volume. Along with great doo wop cuts by the Mystics ( &"Hushabye" ), the Nutmegs ( &"Story Untold" ), and the Students ( &"I'm So Young" ), there is early rock & roll from Jerry Lee Lewis ( &"Great Balls of Fire" ), the Everly Brothers ( &"Wake Up Little Susie" ), and Carl Perkins ( &"Blue Suede Shoes" ), teen idol sounds from Fabian ( &"Turn Me Loose" ) and Frankie Avalon ( &"Venus" ), as well as some wonderful novelty songs from Bobby Day ( &"Rockin' Robin" ) and the Royal Teens ( &"Short Shorts" ). The collection plays like an hour or so of really fun and diverse '50s oldies radio, something that is getting harder to the point of impossibility to find on your radio dial any more. The only thing that makes the disc less than ideal is having two songs by some of the artists ( Jerry Lee Lewis , the Everly Brothers ). As great as the songs are, it would have been nice to add two more artists. That is a minor point, however, and shouldn't keep anyone from picking up this entertaining disc. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi
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Had you spent some time on the pubic transit system, you would have seen plenty of e-readers, tablets and "pads". I have lived here for nine years and until this past January, I saw few of these devices. Now, a lot of people are using them during their daily commute. And, I do mean A LOT!!!!
The problem has been the silly games publishers are playing with digital rights. I couldn't buy English e-books here until Shakespeare & Sons began selling them. Try to buy from a U.S. site while outside of the U.S. and see what happens. Oh, the hardware is sold here but not the rights to the books.
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Apologies for the lack of Winners and Losers at the weekend.
I managed to watch the race on Italian television from a hotel room in Venice (contractual obligation). The broadcast on RAI was free, the hotel a lot more. What we saw in Bahrain was possibly the best team-mate grand prix in the last 30 years, maybe of all time. Certainly since the early 1980s there has never been so many close intra-team battles going on in one race. There is often one set of team-mates close together in a race but often they're quite polite and just follow until the pit-stops. Last year we had Button vs Perez providing some action; 'Checo' (or as Three Times Le Mans winner Allan McNish likes to call him, Chico) getting his elbows out at Sakhir with Vettel and Webber separated by a grid penalty after Malaysia 2013 had ratcheted up the anticipated friction.
This year we had Hamilton vs Rosberg, Ricciardo vs Vettel, Hulkenberg vs Perez, Bottas vs Massa and the lurking potential of an Alonso vs Raikkonen right at the end of the race. Keeping track of the battles through multiple pit-stops via an Italian commentary and with on-screen graphics that only give the position at the end of the lap (i.e. what you see on screen mid-lap isn't the current position) made it tough to follow.
We also had the benefit of Pastor Maldonado and his cartoon accident which helped close the field up. But that just added to the whole package of incident and accident. It was "taxi-cab racing" at its most glorious.
Nico Rosberg 0 - Lewis Hamilton 3
Race: Hamilton
Lewis looked particularly determined on his drag down to Turn 1 and was not going to give the place up lightly. It set the tone for the whole afternoon, the background of which was that Rosberg had absorbed every bit of data as to why Lewis was faster than him in Malaysia and the three free practice sessions in Bahrain.
Which is no different to teams up and down the pitlane where team-mates are told where they can improve. But what has slightly rankled with Lewis is the forensic detail in which Mercedes are showing Rosberg how to match his team-mate, not just braking and acceleration points, but fuel and tyre management. This all comes down to nought when you have two cars on track giving it 10/10ths in their ultimate desire to beat the other driver but not do anything (too) stupid.
What we saw at Sakhir was the ultimate team-mate battle, two drivers at the very top of their form, balancing DRS, boost and tyre wear as they go-karted towards the finishing line in sheer ballsout racing mode.
What was particularly impressive was that Mercedes had only ever scored a single 1-2 finish since the 1950s and with one slip their commanding advantage and a certain 1-2 would be gone. It would be Webber vs Vettel in Turkey all over again. Every corner you thought, 'well, this is going to end in tears' and it didn't. And we should be thankful it didn't either, because in a season where Mercedes will be uncatchable by anyone except Red Bull, having the two leading drivers go at it hammer and tongs will keep the interest up. Toto Wolff was asked how long they were going to allow that kind of racing and he said until they lost a front wing. Let's hope they don't.
Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardo 2 - Sebastian Vettel 1
Race: Ricciardo
Ricciardo qualified in front of Vettel, but the hammer blow of a 10-place grid penalty denied him the chance to grab his second podium and the first one without a fuel sensor problem. Dan showed all the virtues again; great qualifying, reasonable start, patience behind other cars, steadily picking up places, and not afraid to attack his team-mate.
Fernando Alonso 3 - Kimi Raikkonen 0
Race: AlonsoWhereas in 2013 the Ferraris were quick at the start and likely to move forward on the opening lap, these days it's a question of crossing your fingers that they at least hold position as the red lights go out. Neither Alonso or Raikkonen had races they'll recall with much fondness, though it was fun to hear 'The Iceman' doing one of his familiar rants on the opening lap.
Jenson Button 2 - Kevin Magnussen 1
Race: Button
Button got the better of his rookie team-mate in qualifying and maintained his place at the start. Which he needs to do if he's going to make it past 267 races. Mercedes have shown the big wins you can have by designing the car round the engine and getting the blueprint of the engine early (ie much earlier than their customers). McLaren already have their Honda engine spec and will be working away on 2015. Unless Magnussen has a melt-down, that second McLaren seat is going to be a glittering prize and so Button knows he needs to impress.
The RAI equivalent of Lee McKenzie grabbed hold of Jenson Button on the way to the grid.
RAI interviewer: "Jenson, how does it feel to do your 250th race?"
Jenson: "I don't know, I haven't started it yet."
Valtteri Bottas 0 - Felipe Massa 3
Race: Massa
When Felipe got his bullet starts in a Ferrari last year it was easy to assume that it was the Ferrari's great traction combined with sophisticated Scuderia engine mapping. Now that he's produced (or likely to have produced) the Start of the Year in two successive seasons for two different teams, you have to believe it's something to do with Felipe's right foot. When they replayed the in-car footage from Jenson Button's car it was like Massa was driving a car from a different formula.
But clearly that traction comes at a price and both Bottas and Massa suffered rear tyre problems through the race
Toro Rosso
Jean-Eric Vergne 1 - Daniil Kvyat 2
Race: Kvyat
Kvyat is giving Magnussen a run for his money in the most-promising-rookie department. Kvyat outqualifed JEV again and raced like a seasoned pro.
Force India
Nico Hulkenberg 2 - Sergio Perez 1
Race: Perez
Hulkenberg should have qualified better and he knows it, because a higher place start might have got him much closer to the front. Perez showed why he won in Sakhir in GP2 and why he was strong in pre-season testing. Force India have quite simply done a better job than McLaren with their customer Mercedes engine. Ron won't be happy...
Romain Grosjean 2 - Pastor Maldonado 1
Race: Grosjean
Maldonado's three penalty points were probably half of what he should have got. His accident with Gutierrez was the kind of cartoon bash you get in lower formulae. A loony toons, Acme Hammer of a bash. You expected to see cartoon stars above it. There was no guilty tyre smoke as the Venezuelan realised he'd made a monumental mistake as he headed for the apex and stood on the anchors. No, instead there was a thunderous meeting with the wholly innocent Sauber. It had Andrea De Cesaris written all over it. At a very rough estimate he probably did upwards of $500,000 to the Sauber and gets one more penalty point than Sauber's Adrian Sutil got for being a bit stroppy in Qualifying.
Esteban Gutierrez 2 - Adrian Sutil 1
Race: Gutierrez
Sutil is really struggling in qualifying compared to his lighter team-mate. Sauber usually start off a season with a good car that is gradually out-developed by its better-funded competitors, but this season looks like it's headed for the same fate as Williams in 2013. The fact that Adrian's duelling with a Marussia in races tells you all you need to know.
Marcus Ericsson 1 - Kamui Kobayashi 1
Race: Kobayashi
Kamui's Caterham used too much fuel and had to back off in the closing stages, while Ericsson disappeared on Lap 34.
Max Chilton 3 - Jules Bianchi 0
Race: Chilton
Jules got involved in another needless tussle with Adrian Sutil and sustained damage that put him back to P16, whereas Max made it through to a slightly fortuitous P13 and gave Marussia back their 10th place in the Constructors' table.
Star of the race
Daniel Ricciardo 1, Lewis Hamilton 1, Sergio Perez 1
Overtaking Move of the Race
Valtteri Bottas 1, Daniel Ricciardo 1, Lewis Hamilton 1
Sat on the Naughty Step
Christian Horner 1, Kevin Magnussen 1, Pastor Maldonado 1
Media Watch
Watching the race in a different country with a different commentary team and style is interesting. You would think that the Italian commentary team, including former Ferrari driver Ivan Capelli would be voluble and excitable, not necessarily "Mamma Mia!" but the kind of Italian Fernando Alonso uses over team radio. Instead it's more like the calm, modulated race tones of engineer Andrea Stella.
When Maldonado almost T-boned (I saw it written in a serious motorsport publication as 'clipped his right rear tyre' - clipped his right rear tyre?!) Gutierrez the commentators weren't too fussed. While we have come to expect the Murray Walker treatment of all such accidents - the voice speeds and goes up an octave at the very least - the RAI team were more like, "oh, look at that then, ah, that's unfortunate isn't it - where are the Ferraris?"
It's also intriguing to see which drivers and race personnel can speak Italian. Niki Lauda, having been a Ferrari driver in the 1970s was good for a quote in Italian on the grid, Nico Rosberg spoke good Italian, Eric Boullier stuck to English as did Clare Williams, but Paul Hembury was articulate in Italian if a little lacking in accent. As he works for an Italian company it's hardly surprising he knows the language*. More hand gestures Paul.
Andrew Davies
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Google does not penalize for paid or sponsored reviews but can penalize for paid or sponsored links that pass PageRank – Brian Solis & Techcrunch are blatantly wrong.
As Techcrunch now has 2 million readers, many of them corporate, you would think they would be a little more careful publishing statements that are false, misleading or could seriously damage not just a single company, but a whole growing business sector, even if they clearly hate it. Opinion is one thing – stating facts that are wrong is in a totally different territory Here is an excerpt for the recent fluff piece for Brian Solis on Techcrunch
Seems simple enough, except two things are going to prevent this from effectively promoting the sponsoring brand over time — 1) disclosures read like warning signs; 2) Google is downgrading any blog or site that actively publishes paid content.
Sarah Lacey's recent piece was fluff as well
Google has no stated problem with paid or sponsored reviews – with Google it has always been about machine readable disclosure of paid links i.e. use some way to block the links from counting such as rel="nofollow", javascript, block with redirect + robots.txt etc
I stated that Brian's article was a fluff piece, because it is very easy to research, but here are a few choice articles.
Matt Cutts Interviewed By Eric Enge
More on Matts own blog
Paid posts should not affect search engines
Official Google Statements
Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank
Why Fluff Piece?
You would expect Brian to have mentioned something relating to nofollow or PageRank passing links
Paid Links From Techcrunch
Techcrunch for as long as I can remember have sold PageRank passing links as part of their advertising packages.
It isn't something that is mentioned within their advertising material, but being a Techcrunch sponsor of one kind or another has its benefits, and Techcrunch despite repeatedly being nudged about it whenever they mention paid reviews, has never addressed the problem.
This is search spam
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It makes Google look stupid
How many of these articles (Techcrunch Search) thanking sponsors use nofollowed links?
Just Advertorials?
Techcrunch coverage always concentrates on paid reviews being advertorials or purchasing opinion, thus I would like to highlight 2 of my own paid reviews which totally fly-in-the-face of that theory.
WordPress SEO Masterclass – whilst this post needs to be revamped, as many of the topics discussed have now been borrowed, or expressed inaccurately by others, it still stands as one of the most in-depth tutorials on WordPress SEO.
It has been linked to by SEO experts, syndicated, and stood the test of time for 2 years… yet it was a paid review, written as a form of consultation.
Volusion Review & Suggestions – The suggestion by Brian Solis is that paid reviews are somehow biased – in reality, paid reviews can be anything but biased, or even less biased, because a reviewer with any integrity will ensure that their review is thorough and accurate, because it will be heavily scrutinized.
In many ways that is to the detriment of the site asking to be reviewed, if their are any holes a detailed review might uncover.
Fluff reviews are in my experience are frequently caused by:-
- Blogger receiving a press release
- Blogger spending 30 minutes glancing at a site
- Rewriting the press release with a few screenshots to make it look pretty
- Offering a flimsy opinion that they can easily reverse if put on the spot
Time = money – to write detailed reviews that have real opinion and give valuable feedback from an expert, often there needs to be some level of payola.
p.s. Brain did you and Techcrunch really pay $750 for the Forrester report?
p.p.s. Does Techcrunch pay for Comscore? (I have always wondered why they predominantly quote Comscore in posts)
p.p.p.s The nofollowed home link on Techcrunch is funny
Despite the headline, this article hasn't been primarily SEOed to rank for either Brian Solis or Techcrunch (e.g. the title is spelt wrong, first link priority, optimized meta title etc)
One of the biggest problems Google faces in its battle against paid links and PageRank passing links in sponsored reviews, paid posts, or whatever methods people come up with to gain an advantage in search engine rankings is knowledge and public awareness.
The feedback I have received from Brian Solis certainly suggests he was unaware of the intricacies of the paid link situation, both the technical aspects, and the specific statements from Google.
Michael Arrington, Techcrunch editor also left a comment looking for clarification which I am including below as a reference point.
I am going to address each paragraph in turn as a separate section of this update.
just twittered this as i think it's a debate worth having. I wish you were a little less emotional about it but your arguments are interesting.
If Google isn't downgrading sites with paid content I didn't know about it. Am looking into that now. IMO they should be.
On the links on TechCrunch, you make a pretty aggressive statement "Techcrunch for as long as I can remember have sold PageRank passing links as part of their advertising packages." Please show me evidence of that.
Having a link in an ad to MediaTemple, or whoever, that links to MediaTemple, isn't a search scam. It's just linking to an advertiser. Now if the keyword was "hosting" or something like that I'd agree that it would be inappropriate. But its just a site name being linked to a site name. A search for Media Temple on Google that shows Media Temple's site is a good thing, and I don't think our ads are designed to create any deception there.
If i'm missing something please let me know. Would be happy to continue the conversation. I'm at editor at techcrunch, please email me if you follow up here so I can come back.
I really want to have a constructive conversation on this issue.
just twittered this as i think it's a debate worth having. I wish you were a little less emotional about it but your arguments are interesting.
How emotional are people about the current financial crisis and losing their jobs, and ability to put food on the table?
Whilst I haven't written any form of sponsored review for probably close to 18 months, that doesn't mean I have abbandoned the option – I have a lot less time available to blog, and more refined goals partially enabled by the clearing up of a number of issues around the treatment of paid links, and more specifically affiliate links.
That being said, hundreds of thousands rely in part on the income they can make writing paid reviews. If inaccurate coverage of Google's treatment of paid links is left without challenge, that could be harmful to their income.
If job losses in the Tech sector or auto industry are something people get emotional about, you can bet a reduction in income, either part or full time, is something people will get emotional about.
However in this post I am effectively just a mouthpiece for those whose voices would otherwise remain unheard.
Downgrading Sites?
If Google isn't downgrading sites with paid content I didn't know about it. Am looking into that now. IMO they should be.
Google have "downgraded" sites for paid reviews purely due to PageRank passing links. Most believe the downgrading is purely cosmetic (reduction in the toolbar pagerank displayed).
I have data which strongly suggests that Google can target both whole sites and individual pages, preventing them passing on PageRank both internally and externally.
That in itself may not reduce site traffic significantly, but it can certainly unbalance efforts to control PageRank flow and indexing within a large site.
I have no data to suggest that companies buying paid reviews have seen massive downgrades in their rankings – it is hard to isolate the data if they are also undertaking other marketing efforts.
Google has mainly penalized those selling PageRank passing links in one way or another, though even 18 months after they had the first major clampdown (Oct 2007), they are still not amazingly good at detecting paid links – even with the human element of the penalty process I have seen claims of false positives, and I am sure the process is labour intensive.
Techcrunch Selling Links
On the links on TechCrunch, you make a pretty aggressive statement "Techcrunch for as long as I can remember have sold PageRank passing links as part of their advertising packages." Please show me evidence of that.
Firstly that isn't the statement I made, as there were words which followed.
Techcrunch for as long as I can remember have sold PageRank passing links as part of their advertising packages.
It isn't something that is mentioned within their advertising material, but being a Techcrunch sponsor of one kind or another has its benefits, and Techcrunch despite repeatedly being nudged about it whenever they mention paid reviews, has never addressed the problem.
I need to clarify that statement as I am sure someone will try to pick holes in it.
In December 2007 for at least one post, Techcrunch did nofollow links when thanking sponsors. It was such a notable event that I blogged about it and I am pretty sure I was the first to blog about it.
It was also mentioned by Michael Gray, and both posts were linked to from the Search Engine Land 2007 Roundup on Paid Links
The Search Engine Land Roundup is a good birds-eye-view, and notable because it was written by ex-Googler Vanessa Fox – whilst she had been out of Google for a while, I am sure she still had a good measure of the "pulse".
Whilst it is possible that Michael Arrington didn't read any of the above, or the 10s, possibly 100s of blog comments that mentioned it on the Techcrunch blog, repeatedly, every time he attacked paid blogging services in one way or another, that is just plausable deniability.
To get some idea of how many advertisers think, you only need to read a few blog posts about buying links, and how to do it under the radar. The fact that it is under the radar doesn't mean it isn't buying links.
Linkfluence: How to Buy Links With Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk
How to: Buy Links Without Being Called a Spammer
8 Ways to Buy Links Without "Buying Links"
What percentage of a purchase decision, or just some purchase decisions revolves around the added benefit of links from "sponsor thanks" posts, increased chance of editorial mention (possibly just due to increased brand awareness) is impossible to quantify, but it would certainly be part of the thought process for some brands.
It would probably be exactly the same though process as people contemplating paid blog reviews with a look to gain not just increased awareness, maybe a little traffic, but also a bit of long lasting link juice.
No Anchor Text
Having a link in an ad to MediaTemple, or whoever, that links to MediaTemple, isn't a search scam. It's just linking to an advertiser. Now if the keyword was "hosting" or something like that I'd agree that it would be inappropriate. But its just a site name being linked to a site name. A search for Media Temple on Google that shows Media Temple's site is a good thing, and I don't think our ads are designed to create any deception there.
This has to be a little geeky, but the short answer – anchor text is just one of hundreds of factors
Even links without any anchor text at all have value
Here is a link to the old "Ranking Factors" compiled 2 years ago and due for an update
Some SEOs would state that the proximity of words to that URL would have an effect, that the keywords in the URL have an effect, and none would argue that that link passes PageRank, various authority traits, temporal traits etc.
The link has real value.
Here is a link that possibly doesn't have value. It is an affiliate link to Stompernet's excellent SEO Training Course which you can get for $1, in the hope that you also remain a subscriber to their Net Effect magazine which is full of great cutting edge training.
It is obviously an affiliate link, it passes through a 3rd party tracking link, it does a 302 redirect rather than 301 (not always a factor) – most of the time I "nofollow" affiliate links when I remember, though Google have stated at conferences that they don't have a requirement to do so.
Best Practice
- In content – Use tracking links such as those provided by OpenX – the links get blocked by robots.txt, but you should always still nofollow them, or you create hanging/dangling pages
- Sidebar Advertings – Use tracking links such as those provided by OpenX – the links get blocked by robots.txt, but you should always still nofollow them, or you create hanging/dangling pages – if you are using javascript, this isn't an issue
- The advice is exactly the same for both scenarios
- Advertisiers get traffic stats
- You get valuable business intelligence from the click tracking which has value in itself, but also for content choices.
- No problems from Google, or criticism from the blogosphere
Read Write Web currently do a pretty good job of this after I nudged them about it, and refined the system when they started using OpenX links within the content, though a few links to content still slip through, which should possibly be nofollowed.
There are big problems still within the whole paid link debate
- Unequal treatment – some blogs seem to be above the "Google law"
- Grey areas – there still isn't an official statement I can point to from Google about Affiliate links being ok, and there are "clean" affiliate links with the tracking on the back end. What counts as paid PageRank passing links is never exactly specified, they can't cover every form of payola.
I am quite confident if PPP bloggers had included a banner in their sidebar for every website they wrote about, even for just 1 week, Google would have still slammed them.
It will be quite time consuming going through 100s of posts adding nofollows to historical advertisers who received a link – I did publish a WordPress plugin that could have handled it, along with complete disclosure and even more advertiser exposure, all fully automatic, but I abandoned the project over a year ago – no matter what the FTC say, nothing will be done to police best practice, and bloggers are not interested in best practice.
I spent $3000 hiring a programmer to create a plugin that no one wanted.
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Techcrunch have been attacking Last.fm over data sharing, but in many ways bloggers are worse.
- Subscribe to comments doesn't comply with Can Spam
- Data sharing with 3rd party services across borders, including email address and IP (comment spam plugins)
- How many bloggers have a privacy policy? It is actually a requirement for Google, but should also cover tracking, comment spam, advertisers etc.
- Content ownership of comments?
There are all kinds of things that in many ways are much bigger issues than whatever the FTC has to say on WOMM
Update 2 – False Information Spreads By Copying Techcrunch
This is just unreal, or the negative side of extremely bad information spread virally.
Businessweek just published an article on paid reviews, quite well researched, but they stole a sub-headline from Brian Solis' Techcrunch piece.
"Google Downgrades Paid Blog Entries"
Yes that is a nofollowed link to a very bad article, I really should nofollow the Techcrunch links as well, but Michael did take the time to comment and learn, and hopefully will write some kind of followup.
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