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Deadwood Fans Both Young and Old

My father was a huge “Old West” fan. Not just movies, but anything to do with the Old West. His bookshelves were lined with biographies and specifics on western towns and the people who populated them. And, the Deadwood series was a much-watch HBO show on his list.

The Old West Deadwood Style – Outlaws, Saloons, Brawls, and the Ever Popular Piano Player of Course

For me, I’d have to say the most interesting character from those days gone by is Annie Oakley. Yes, yes, I am a woman, but my choice is not just due to that fact. Let’s face it, in those hardened days of old, any woman who could rise to the top in any profession (other than the obvious), has my vote. The daughter of Quakers, she grew up to be one of the top traveling show marksman in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (circa 1885). And, another quirky fact, Annie taught more than 15,000 woman how to use a gun. Now that’s influence

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For all you Old Western fans out there, I’d like to call your attention to a One Day Only sale that Amazon is holding on February 3, 2011. On that “golden day” you’ll be able to pick up the entire Deadwood series – their “Gold Box deal” at a huge discount!

HBO’s Deadwood series places you smack dab in the middle of the Black Hills of South Dakota when outlaws and opportunity seekers staked out, and fought to keep, their claim to one of the richest gold strikes in America. Those were tough times and rough living conditions – yet we fondly call them “the good old days.” Hmmm…

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I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Google’s page rank is finally meeting its (long overdue) end.

I don’t know how many pages I’ve visited of late that get decent (or boatloads of) traffic yet have no or very low PRs. In reverse, you’ve got the huge PR website, yet you can easily tell (via add ons, etc.) that no one knows they even exist.

For further proof, head to the Google search itself. Type in anything you want (I typed in “latest news google pr“) then start scanning and researching the leading results. For my particular phrase, front page results reflected posts and web pages posted last month to several years ago. I did check the “pr” and “alexa” for many of them. No surprise to find that front page results included sites without any PR at all – along with some with traffic so minuscule anyone would be shaking their head over “why the front page?” (Maybe our accompanying illustration helps reinforce the head scratching, mind boggling way this is all “determined.”)

It’s fact – while there are popular sites (depending on what you type) like WebMD or Amazon in your search results, you always find within those same front page results websites with no PR and a variety of traffic (low to high).

So I’m going to go further out on that limb to say that I think when it comes to choosing “traffic versus Google PR” that anyone in their right mind would opt for the traffic, right?

Boatloads of traffic!

The Google PR used to be a badge of honor, and many a webmaster or seo expert sweated bullets over this one. Maybe some still do.

However, even the folks at Google cannot or will not tell (or do not know) whether PR really means a hill of beans in the end.

What prompted this post was an inspection this morning of my ezine advertising website.

At one point in its so far 7 year history, it achieved a traffic rank of under 21K and held onto a PR 4 (for this type of niche this was outstanding). Then along came one of those infamous algorithm changes and now… well this morning on my end of the world there is no PR on the site. Zip, zilch, nada.

Now it could be the folks at Google are in some cycle doing updates again. Could be the poor thing just lost out in this latest round of bids for ranking. Be that as it may, thankfully it does sit on the front page for many of the distinct keywords necessary for folks to find it. And that’s what counts.

Google plays with their algorithm so much and so often, you could easily drive yourself insane figuring out your next move. Running around in circles trying to please or appease, you’ll not only get dizzy, but allow much of your competition to race right past you.

What should you be working on? Words. Content. And more importantly, in SEO terms, keyword content. You do have to know the difference between appropriately working those keywords into your content (and which ones are really going to be any use to you in the first place) and cramming them into metas and content like there’s no tomorrow. Do not be short sighted nor mislead by shady tactics.

The time is ripe for the rest of the world to just “do their own thing.” Work your website or blog the way you wish to work it (and start having fun for a change). Go for the gold, go for traffic. Let’s also hope that Google drops this antiquated ranking platform very, very soon.

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