Cowboys

It’s been brought to my attention from a number of clients that they have been approached by another SEO company giving them information about how they are currently “loosing links and their ranking will fall.”

It’s not uncommon for clients to have other SEO companies approach them and when it’s all fair game I have no problem, however the SEO company I’m going to talk about in this post don’t quite have their facts correct.

The Pitch

Did you know that your site is currently loosing backlinks; at the rate it is dropping you will loose your rankings. Your current SEO company are obviously not working towards your best interests.

They then display a graph from Majestic SEO as follows:

Now if you’re a client who doesn’t have much knowledge of SEO or majestic SEO as a service, well this looks pretty convincing doesn’t it?!

The facts

Well the SEO company has obviously not done their research or they are trying to blatantly fool innocent company owners.  A tip – If you are the SEO company involved please read my article on my personal blog called “Clarity about Majestic SEO“; if you aren’t aware of how Majestic SEO works it’s a good read anyway.

To sum up the article, well basically there are three main views in Majestic SEO and you can look at them from either a total backlinks perspective or referring domains perspective. (Referring domain is more accurate as it shows the actual number of websites linking to you.)

The main two views to look at are:

1. Monthly View
2. Cumulative view

Monthly view shows how many new links the Majestic SEO spider crawls each month (Remember New links)

Cumulative view shows the total values added up each month.
I.e. Month one, 100 new links were found, month two 60 new links were found, month three 30 new links were found on a monthly view it would show:

To clarify!

Majestic SEO doesn’t show your links dropping!

Conclusion

Just be aware that there are still many bogus SEO companies out there. Get them to clarify any facts of their evaluation with you.

Internet Explorer has for a long time been known for its constant flaws and lack of support. In some cases Microsoft released patches to close security holes 200 days after initial reports.

Nevertheless Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser with 78% of the market share. Why? Because it comes as standard with Windows and most users don’t know or can’t be bothered to find a better option.

Why Not To Use Internet Explorer?

Security – It’s commonly used as THE gateway for most malicious software. IE makes it relatively easy to install spyware and adware through ActiveX and Active Scripting; consequently hackers focus their attention on Internet Explorer. Security improvements in Windows XP SP2 claimed to have closed these holes, but newer attacks against IE allow the installation of malware on SP2.

Stability – Internet Explorer crashes very easily. Due to its many deficiencies it doesn’t take much for IE to crumple. In effect it can be done with on line of code (61 bytes):

<script>for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}</script>

It’s rather worrying considering that this script could be embedded into any webpage.

Web standards – This is almost certainly the main reason why IE is hated in the web development community. Since the late 1990’s Microsoft is oddly focused on the addition of non-standard features, there are so many web standard features that do not work on IE but works on all other browsers. This not only increases development costs and time but also stops web developers from being creative.

To name a few incompatibilities: IE doesn’t support native XHTML; misinterprets the W3C “Box Model”; and lacks support for PNG alpha channel.

Community and extensions – Unlike other browsers you can’t add extra features. Any other major browser has tons of extensions available covering anything that you can think of.

Better options – At present mozilla is the best browser in the market. It’s free, it follows all the standards correctly. It has loads of extensions which can turn your browser into an all-in-one application. If you still using Internet Explorer, try something new today! Alternatively there are other browsers worth looking at like Opera and Flock.

Tino
SEO Programmer