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Has anyone started noticing any traffic fluctuations in the U.S?

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Wow, that's a drastic move. What sector and which country?

What sector are you in? Does it look like a huge fluctuation your end?

I am not a gambling man so I am not going to bet you.

With that out of the way, the question comes down to one thing. Is this the future? Is this the best solution? My answer, is a big No.

The real solution is a family robot that monitors consumption of household items in a smart home and orders everything that you need in a timely manner.

The world is moving towards connected homes, connected cars, connected fridges etc, why the hell would you want individual stick on buttons, that would be silly.

This is clearly an April fools campaign. This approach is simply not the most viable. How many buttons are you going to have in your household? How are you going to protect it from kids etc!

I wonder how this looks like in the US. Does anyone have any data that they could share?

Twitter seems to be the biggest network.

Google's definition of 'good' and 'bad' is the criterion...

That's not the way to get customers, in fact it's the quickest way of driving potential customers away.

Why do you need my personal details? Why can't you just tell me about your product and how it could help me!

Selfish.

I can demonstrate that Microsoft sells links.

To be honest, in this case I am surprised.

VC's should keep a close eye on the marketing efforts of the companies they back, particularly if their main strategy depends on SEO.

Most SEOs will take the quickest route possible to game Google and that could put a company in grave danger.

I can't believe a VC backed company has done this.

I just published a short post with some data http://www.rocketmill.co.uk/hideous-seo-strategy-rap-genius

I have just published a short but revealing post on this http://www.rocketmill.co.uk/hideous-seo-strategy-rap-genius

Which message are you referring to?

I do see what you mean.

The dark sidebar doesn't do it for me, it doesn't look like its part of the page and as a result may be ignored.

He is talking out of his rear-end.

You should look into the following:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/06/technology...

Comparing screenshots (difference thresholds) is probably the most complicated part of the process. Currently using Imagemagick which is OK but it could be improved, probably by using Open CV instead.

Any thoughts?

Good point! I will change that.

Data goes all the way back to 2009 and is limited to SEOmoz's blog section alone as I couldn't extract the remaining.

Paints a rather interesting picture if you look into their rebrand period etc.

This is from moz.com's blog section and the data goes all the way back to 2009.

Significant amount of mouse droppings were found in a Domino’s Pizza in London - on shelves, surfaces and under equipment.

The most disgusting fast food chain is Chicken Cottage

71 gang related crimes at Chicken Cottage in Ladbroke Grove

I wonder what Starbucks is like, I spend a lot of time there.

Would be interesting to see how much traffic RG gets from Facebook and Twitter.

Start-ups can learn a lot from this ad. It is simple, mischievous, cheeky and above all creative - all the ingredients you need in your marketing.

How can this be applied to a start-up? Lets exchange ideas :)

Google keeps on hurting small businesses, the big boy who keep on abusing its guidelines are fine, after every single update.

Also, they are not fixing basic issues like exact match domains and domain crowding.

Here is a relatively good example

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=care+homes+in+essex&aq...

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