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Taking some power back from search engines

One of the joys of the internet is the way people with good ideas, who produce quality material slowly learn to recognize each other. This process is enhanced by cross reference to the work other people have produced with suitable links.

To make this worthwhile the pages we links to should be more or less permanent. In my own case I've always tried to maintain page names without change over many years, even if the content on that page was edited several times.

If you maintain your own web space and you would care to link to any page inside www.openfuture.co.nz please feel free to do so. You can be confident that the page will remain available.

You should do this as a service to your own readers, not to please me. What will be USEFUL to them?

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Here is a list of pages that may be valuable to you:

Searching for Truth
You can only change yourself
We Need to Initiate Change Ourselves
Understanding Our Learning Disabilities

Innovation and the Human Spirit
Your Real Education is Self-directed
The Club of Rome, World Problematique
We are all children of the environment

A better set of economic principles
Discovering the Useful Common
William Dunk on Collaboration
I am who I am because of my culture

How do we make better political decisions?
The critical value of quality information
Global systems demand global governance
Knowledge Ecology

Write a record of your primary experience
The Future is Collaborative
Important Learning Occurs in Groups
Innovation Principles

Open Future Blog Each post has a unique URL
You Become What You Do: You Become What You Think About
We are misdirected by the wrongness of our questions
Notes for Effective Networking The Apoptosis Story

How Online Social Networks Benefit Organizations

Of course I'd be delighted to link to you in some appropriate way. Please suggest a page or a site I should look at. I need a page that would be of interest to my readers, who are a mixed bunch but mostly business focused or thinking about arts, culture and politics.

I had an approach recently from a marketing officer who was link-building. Her strategy to confuse the search engine was to offer links from a very well written informative article, to my web site, in return for a link to her website. Sounds good. She insisted that I link to main page of her site.

The problem was that there was nothing there of interest to the people I imagine are reading my website. The links form MY site should be helpful to MY Readers. There was a problem with the return links too. The target article was availble for the search engine to find, but hidden from human users of the site, who were not the target group. Sure enough the excellent article was available, (but I'm told that I can't link directly to it) and below there are over 100 company names with links, in very tiny text. Nobody was ever intended to use these links. They were just search engine fodder. I didn't take up the offer.

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