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Ethical Link Building

AGHABOE – The Birthplace of Saint Fergal

Aghaboe is the birthplace of Saint Fergal. He was a great preacher and radical thinker. His cosmology included a belief that the world was round and he is the only cosmologist that was actually excommunicated for his views. This may come as a bit of diappointing news for people who claim that Galileo was excommunicated. In fact he wasn’t. He was retired (sacked) from his teaching post, placed under virtual house arrest and when he died was buried inside a chapel. There was no excommuication.

Fergal, on the other hand, lived long before Galileo; almost nine hundred years earlier. He differed with Saint Boniface on a question of baptism and Fergal’s view was upheld by the Pope. Boniface complained about Fergal’s belief in a round earth and that led to his excommunication. – Here’s an example of his writings:
As to the Seven Heavens that are around the earth,

The first of them is the bright cloudy heaven that is the nearest and that has shining out of it the moon and the scattering of stars.

Beyond that are two flaming heavens,
angels are in them and the breaking loose of winds.

Beyond those an ice-cold heaven,
bluer than any blue,
seven times colder than any snow,
and it is out of that comes the shining of the sun.

Two heavens there are above that again, bright like flame,
and it is out of them shine the fiery stars that put fruitfulness in the clouds and in the sea.

A high heaven, high and fiery,
there is above all the rest;
highest of all it is,
having within it the rolling of the skies,
and the labour of music,
and choirs of angels.

In the belts, now, of the seven heavens are hidden the twelve shaking beasts
that have fiery heads upon their heavenly bodies
and that are blowing twelve winds about the world.

In the same belts are sleeping the dragons with fiery breath,
tower-headed, blemished, that give out the crash of the thunders
and blow lightning out of their eyes.

- I was named after this guy and joined the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans have an ancient ruined abbey in the next field, a hard act to follow but a providential link – below is an example of my stutterings;

WORK IS THE KEY
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic (Stalin)

It’s not all that often that Joseph Stalin would be quoted in a sermon, but, today we are faced and challenged by a very frightening statistic. Unemployment in the country has crossed the 300,00 mark and is growing month by month. Big figures are hard to understand and so I would like to encourage you to do something. Don’t think of the figure but imagine instead what it would be like if there were 299,999 on the dole and you were with them.

Being on the dole is not any shame but it can have two very damaging effects on the person.

The first is that there can be a loss of self-value in the person themselves. We are very much inclined to define who we are by what we do and a person who cannot say that they are a secretary, a businessperson, a labourer can be left in a position where they simply cannot say who they are and lose all sense of pride that they might have had in who they were.

The second effect is to do with our economic system. As a first world country prices are set according to what can be asked of people. For this reason basic needs here cost more than they do in Africa or Eastern Europe. On a minimal budget survival becomes difficult and the person is left with more free time to fill – and as we all know leisure costs a lot of money. Even a simple matter of heating the home becomes a lot more expensive!

Faced with a situation of having such an amount of people in these situations our bishops wrote a pastoral letter. They called the Pastoral WORK IS THE KEY, and the subtitle "towards a society that needs everyone" gives a clear indication of what it is about. In it they give an analysis of some things that are happening in our country…

Our failure as a nation to copy other small countries in developing natural resources for the good of all the community. They suggest that this is caused by a cultural unwillingness to accept responsibility for what we do that seems to have been caused by our long history as a colony.

Rural emigration has destroyed the fabric of the rural society and there is no need to expand on what we think of emigration in this country. Emigrants are regularly bitter and feel that they have been driven from their homes.

Surely this is a governmental problem, religion has nothing to say on this issue. Yet, there is a very long tradition in Christianity of caring for all the members of our society. It is the driving force that began the great charitable movements and orders. Jesus himself encouraged us to care for the widows and orphans – St James spoke about proving your faith through good works.

The Social Teaching of the Church has always stressed the dignity of every human individual. Anything that deprives somebody of that dignity must be worked against, everybody must play a part in this – we are after all a community and we have duties towards all members of that community. We all learned about Justice being a Christian virtue in our catechisms – the pastoral of the Bishops calls us to put that virtue into practice.

Practising the virtue of Justice is not at all as difficult as it might sound. Faced with the Government’s failure to address the unemployment problem we are asked to do the following things…..

We can support domestic economy. Sometimes when we buy Irish goods they cost a bit more, but, it helps to keep somebody in a job. Small sacrifices add up quickly and the shopping will cost more, but, in the long run there will be reduced taxation as more workers mean more people paying in and less receiving from central funds. On a similar point we could add extra support in our weekly shopping to companies that are encouraging employment by taking on new staff.

We can encourage and support local enterprise groups, if we are in the position of being able to hire somebody we should make every effort to employ rather than make profits. We are Christians first and we must put our neighbour before our own financial gain. We can hardly call ourselves Christians if we are unwilling to do this.

We can invest some of our money in the company that we work for. There are very few Irish workers who will buy stocks in the company that they work for. Shop floor workers could band together like they do to play the Lotto and each week buy more shares in their own future. Maybe we are too greedy and want every penny for ourselves, but, if you work for a company that is quoted on the stock exchange your small investment in that company could protect you when the place is in danger of closing. Our economy works off a marketplace and anybody who has spare money should invest it in companies that are contributing to our society.

At the same time we should only invest in what would be ethical companies. We are called as Christians not to support companies that exploit their workers, companies that destroy the environment, companies that deal in mass death and destruction and so on….. We should also refuse to buy the products of these companies. Doing these things will prove our faith and help build a society that needs everybody. In the letter the Bishops speak of solidarity, the test of solidarity is our willingness to help in what I have outlined above.

Our future and the future of our society is in each individual’s hands. There is a place for hope, the statistics are bad and reflect a huge problem, but, we are called as Christians to forget about the numbers and to concentrate on the human beings that make that number, human beings that are created in the image and likeness of God. Those people are the fathers, mothers and brothers and sisters of nearly every person in this country. As Christians we owe it to them to try to restore the dignity that can be lost or taken away by being unemployed in our society.

(This was the first homily that I ever preached – it was in Tallaght on the 13th of March, 1993; Fr. Gus Doherty was the celebrant and I was the deacon; like my patron I think I will only be understood when I’m dead!)

Ethical link building techniques

Article by Fergus

There can be no doubt that the search engine optimization industry is the fastest changing facet of web development in existence today. Ask any SEO professional and they will tell you that the situation can and does change daily, as the major search engines modify and refine their search algorithms and the way in which they index websites. One of the main tasks performed by search engine optimization firms in recent years has been that of link building. Major search engines such as Google rely upon the quantity of relevant back links (links pointing to site content) to judge the overall value of a website, thus helping to calculate it’s relevant position in the search engine results. This process has often been performed in less than honest ways in the past, and the larger search engines now penalize a site for building back links in this way. Below we will take a look at some of the more ethical forms of link building.

Organic links – Without a doubt this is the best way to accrue back links. Organic links are links that normal people have created, pointing at content upon the target website, simply because they found it useful and wish to share it with others. There is an old saying in SEO circles that “content is king” and it is in this area of organic links where this phrase rings most true. Organic links will almost always be one way (as opposed to reciprocal where two sites point at each other), they will also usually be coming from relevant sites to your site content, both of these reasons make organic links the best way to build backlinks.

Link baiting – The idea behind link baiting for search engine optimization purposes, stems from the fact that organic links are the premium way to gain back links. Link baiting does exactly what the name suggests, it places content onto the internet that is specially written to attract interest and create a buzz. It is highly likely that this content will generate a high quantity of very organic looking links. In many ways this is the best way an SEO firm can build links on behalf of their clients. Not the cheapest way, but the most valuable by far.

Link partners – By finding relevant and compatible websites to your own, you can approach the website owners and set up a link partnership. This means that you will link to a page upon the partner’s website and they will link to a page upon yours. Although these links do not appear very organic in nature, they will have value due to the relevancy of the site passing the link. This is another area in which a search engine optimization company can be of great benefit.All in all it is important to ensure that any link building campaign is carried out in an ethical manner. Using spurious techniques for building backlinks can lead a site to being penalized or even banned from the all important search engines.

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Ethical Link Building question by rskha: Will the US ever make foreign decisions w/o the influence of Israeli Lobbyists?
It seem like all AIPAC and other money men in New York want is to push the US in war with Iran. Honestly, Hilary Clinton received about 8 standing ovations and sounded like a suck up to AIPAC and Israel, just a week after condemning them for Nation Building in East Jerusalem. This is really disgusting, all we do is condemn, yet, when it comes to saying “NO! Do not build settlements” we are considered to be antisemitic, or self hating Jews.

Israel’s interests ARE NOT America’s interests. AIPAC thinks it can link the National Security of Israel with America’s. Why aren’t they registered as an agent of a foreign government? Why do they have to confuse the American people by not registering itself like other countries who influence our foreign policies?

But this is my most important question: Why does America strictly condemns Israel’s actions yet doesn’t enforce anything it says. All US said is “the timing of building settlements was wrong” Yes we know! But they still continue to build them where if there was a two-state agreement, East Jerusalem would be the captial of Palestine! And now, we are going to try and comfort them that everything is fine??? They should be appealing their case of why building settlements in Palestinian territory is ethical. It is almost as if we are scared of this powerful lobby.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWc3eQDRu8

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Tough-Questions-Surround-Clintons-AIPAC-Speech-2929/

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0322/Hillary-Clinton-to-AIPAC-New-Israeli-settlements-complicate-US-goals-on-Iran

Who said anything about a muslim lobby? Do not put words in my mouth
JohnN: isn’t it weird that the world’s top Intellectuals seem to back up this “conspiracy theory” if you’d like to call it that. Because they actually know how 3.2 billion taxpayer dollars go to Israel, and the rest of that goes to AIPAC etc influencing foreign policies and media.

University of Chicago professor: John Mearsheimer

Harvard University professor: Stephen Walt.

They say:
AIPAC is “the most powerful and best known” component of a larger pro-Israel lobby that distorts American foreign policy.

“AIPAC’s success is due to its ability to reward legislators and congressional candidates who support its agenda, and to punish those who challenge it. … AIPAC makes sure that its friends get strong financial support from the myriad pro-Israel PACs. Those seen as hostile to Israel, on the other hand, can be sure that AIPAC will direct campaign contributions to their political opponents…..
…..The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. Open debate about U.S. policy towards Israel does not occur there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world.”

Not to mention the founder of modern day linguistics, Professer Noam Chomsky teaching at M.I.T, knows that we are being fed propaganda about this Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee

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Answer by Lizard
Because the US is merely a puppet which Israel is the master of.