They are extremely good at their job, and spam/gaming techniques are finally gone for the most part, although many bot farms and text churning text spinners are still out there promoting new product launches to try and overwhelm Google with pages placed strategically for a new keyword like “BackLink Kingdom”… You start a product called that and the next step is of course to post a blog post somewhere with a title tag of “Don’t EVER use Backlink Kingdom until you read this review!” Of which the content points you at why you are supposed to trust the text on this page to buy it. It must be true thought, since it’s on the internet!

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I sat through this very endearing informative video in which Matt Cutts cutts (heheh) to the chase on SEO and WordPress blogs. I figured having this resource on our blog here will install some insight as to why we created AlsoVille originally with only WordPress in mind. (Pretty neat that they let it run on Blogger though.) So about knowing your neighbor, Matt references the way people search, to think about how more than just one person thinks to search for things, and use those phrases in your url, title, h1 tags etc etc. That’s the frame of mind with our new widget, only for the neighborhood of websites on a topic. What are they talking about, and how are they talking about it? If you are writing about something you are passionate about, you are probably reading what others are saying about it. Why not get a backlink from that article while you are writing about it at the same time? Kind of like killing two birds with one topic. Giving visitors more than one point of view, so that’s the concept in it’s simplest form, and as these AlsoVille village expansions are starting to become overwhelming we have a Katamari kind of effect occurring which is also why I wanted to reference this video. Matt makes some extremely great comparisons to Katamari and content creation.

If you don’t know what AlsoVille is, just examine the demo widget in the upper left or chiclet tile at the top of this page which should make it self explanatory.

Before getting to the video, let me explain the purpose of AlsoVille. To let Google do it’s job well getting you to the page you want to find, and then giving you more of that content in a GUI friendly environment, so everyone knows where everyone ‘lives’ so to speak. Try it out, it’s kind of fun, and many more additional features are on the horizon. Okay so all that said, here’s a lengthy video chock full of everything you ever really needed to know about getting your website noticed (Before AlsoVille)…

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Summary:
AlsoVille is a robust interactive widget (full or discrete chiclet option available).  Instantly display your site in multiple quality locations. Live demo on the left.

Increase visibility – Dominate your local market or reach customers across the nation.

Reach Targeted Traffic – Related quality traffic referred from other sites. (Improved SEO)

Measure Your Success – See referral linking stats on your company pages.

 Keeps Visitors Longer - .AlsoVille opens in new tab, visits stay on your site (Increases SERP)

 Exclusive Control - .Decide who you want and don’t want to appear in your AlsoVille network.

The #1 cool tool for generating more traffic on your website from all around the world.

Conclusion:  Adding your site only takes a few seconds! Increase Website Traffic, SERP, SEO and Social Engagement with the interactive AlsoVille Widget. Authority, Trust and Higher Page Rank! Your quality content gets acknowledged and even written about from respected websites!  

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After many years working with other agencies, he co-founded TEAM Enterprises, Inc. in 1989. A full service field marketing agency that grew from $75K in the Boston Market to $40 million Nationwide; Danny oversaw TEAM’s Creative, Technology and HR Management for clients such as Bacardi, Coke USA, AT&T and Miller Brewing Company until early 2007. During his tenure he was also a co-founder of BEER.COM which sold to Interbrew in 1999.

Co-Founding Mindpoint Software Technology LLC in February of 2012 with David J Garfield, Danny recognizes the opportunity to assist on-line journalists in expanding their audience in fun and innovative ways.

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ESRB "Mature 17+" rating symbol, displayed on the packaging of computer and video games appropriate for audiences over the age of 17. Part of the ESRB Video Game Rating System. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Since the blood bath that occurred on April 20, 1999, many theories have, and still are circulating about what prompted those teens to commit the worst school shooting in history. Some people said the violence in the video game “Doom,” which gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold allegedly played, may have pushed the boys to the brutal shooting spree.

As a response to the violence, Mr. Garfield, 35, of Main Street, became an advocate for ratings on video games so that minors would not be able to purchase extremely violent games, and so parents would be aware of what types of mature materials some games contain.

In 2001, he launched a website called wonderdogsoftware.com, for parents find out more about certain video games and video game walkthroughs.  On the site, Mr. Garfield explains his mission, which is to create a greater awareness of the need for parents to monitor the sometimes violent content in children’s video games, and supervise the youngsters if they play them. Software companies were mandated to rate games about a year ago, but Mr. Garfield believes the industry could do much more.

And he has dedicated himself full-time as an advocate for better video game ratings and as a resource for gamers and parents to learn more.
Mr. Garfield moved to Warren about three years ago and his website’s success prompted him to open Wonderdog at the corner of Main and Church streets so he could have face-to-face interaction with both parents and gamers, and be able to answer their questions while they shop.
“It’s my ‘what can I do?’ attitude,” said Mr. Garfield.

“Ratings are too relaxed,” he said.
His store carries all sorts of games, from non-violent adventures to mature-rated games. But he keeps the mature games on the top shelf, out of the line of vision for most children, the teen-rated games on the middle shelves, and E (for everyone) games at eye level. Games are rated as A for adult, M for mature, T for teen, or E for everyone. Also listed under the ratings are the reasons for those classifications. But Mr. Garfield thinks the ratings are too relaxed, and he said many software companies don’t label games as adult, but tend to call them “mature” instead.
Some of the games merit a little more explanation, he said. One example is a game rated Mature that he has in stock. He grabbed it off the top shelf and displayed the label, which said the game contained blood and gore, sexual content, drug use and intense violence.

?Keeping M Rated games above the eye level of kids not old enough to play them is a good practice that should be adopted by all retail video game stores,? he said.

Another “mature” game, called “The Suffering,” depicts the use of hypodermic needles for drug injection. Parents might not know that about the game unless they have someone to ask, he said.

Dave Garfield is also a well respected film and television producer and director. On top of that he has an accomplished career as an actor. His resume is located at: www.davegarfield.com />
By Michele K. Corcoran

Jamie Coachella does PR for film industry and video game professionals.

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As an entrepreneurial advocate, David launched Mindpoint Software Technology LLC with Danny Connelly in February 2012 and developed the core of the innovative Virtual Blogging Expo Widget known as AlsoVille.  A publishing community social partnership application providing a way of increasing audience popularity and value to bloggers and company website owners.

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What’s interesting about this experiment is that each and every part of the nifty mathematics created to simulate the weight of each item still works in it’s full functionality like it should. So if you are an SEO optimist, better watch out, as the search listings in Google Gravity are completely at the mercy of, well, gravity which means your listing might fall under or even behind someone else’s. All the humor aside, tossing around the Google logo is also lots of fun.

See it all in action here:
http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

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The history of Mindpoint Software began with a simple PC video game called Cutthroat Dice which was created in 1994 by David J. Garfield who was developing for Microsoft at the time.   Keeping the copyright and trademark in hand, Mindpoint Software returns with a new innovation known as AlsoVille.  A virtual expo widget that advances your website based on pages that get topic relevant backlinks from other members.   Similar to the concept of monopoly where if you have 4 houses you get a hotel, the same theory applies to AlsoVille, where you need 3 or your websites pages achieving level 3 to acquire a sitewide upgrade to the next level for example.

Mindpoint Software Technology LLC is a newly founded entity as of February 2012 with its flagship product of AlsoVille expanding into AlsoVille Social (recently released for members), as well as AlsoBlog, and AlsoSearch on the roadmap.

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After many years working with other agencies, he co-founded TEAM Enterprises, Inc. in 1989. A full service field marketing agency that grew from $75K in the Boston Market to $40 million Nationwide; Danny oversaw TEAM’s Creative, Technology and HR Management for clients such as Bacardi, Coke USA, AT&T and Miller Brewing Company until early 2007. During his tenure he was also a co-founder of BEER.COM which sold to Interbrew in 1999.

Co-Founding Mindpoint Software Technology LLC in February of 2012 with David J Garfield, Danny recognizes the opportunity to assist on-line journalists in expanding their audience in fun and innovative ways.

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Journalism: The practice of investigation and reporting events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience on topics of interest. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment.

The field can also include editing, photojournalism, and documentary.

In modern society, news media have become the chief purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs; but the role and status of journalism, along with other forms of mass media, are undergoing changes resulting from theInternet. ^[1] The use of information graphics and time management techniques are revolutionizing the newsroomthrough the use of the maestro concept.

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See the AlsoVille Virtual Site Expo widget in action yet, you can see it live on several websites like GameGuideDog.

GameGuideDog is a charity based website that helps video gamers with any problems or questions and assists children’s charities with contributions made to the site.

Since its inception GameGuideDog caters to video game enthusiasts by helping them with each issue on an individual basis and when necessary contacts video game development teams and publishers on their behalf.

The website assists children’s charities furthering prevention of domestic violence by contributing a portion of their proceeds and supporting NationalCASA.org, Protect.org, and Kidspeace.org, all of which have approved themselves as sponsee’s of the website.

The website was founded in March 2002 as WonderdogSoftware.com, when the owner began to pursue a non-violent brand and rating for video games. The promotion of ‘Rated NV’ (non-violent) titles, was then pushed forward with high school teachers across the united states. Eventually the ESRB was issued as a founding rating system for video games.

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