is google breaking the internet? naah (well at least not with google search - G+, google local and the new horrible google maps is a complete other story) are

is google breaking the internet? naah (well at least not with google search - G+, google local and the new horrible google maps is a complete other story) are webmasters breaking the net because they follow SEO worst practices? definitely. i wrote this article for techcrunch in 2010 http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/startups-linking-to-your-competition-will-help-you-no-really/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/startups-linking-to-your-co... the tl;dr: pagerank is thoughtcancer, if you start thinking of links as some flow of mystical pagerankjuice you will make bad decisions, decissions that will hurt your business, your users and in the end the internet. the stupid "remove link emails" are just the newest iteration of this thoughtcancer. my recommendation stays the same: link to whatever you like and link to whatever your users like, want or need, oh, and also link to your competition. but for gods, your sanities and the internets sake: don't do it for any kind of page/trust/magic-rank or any kind of link/penguin/panda-juices.... my name is franz enzenhofer / i'm the most successful SEO in europe / i do not care about links