My mate Owen, over at the only network, Has a post about Analyze Backlinks
There is website that will tell you all the sites that are linking to you. It is well worth a visit as it will allow you to understand how effective your commenting is on other users blog. Key to gaining a good page rank is insuring that authority bloggers link back to. So commenting really is important for your blog. The rule of thumb here is the more links the higher the page rank. So get reading and positively participating.
Balancing the many pressures that are involved with running a business is never going to be a simple task. On one side you want to be liberal and understanding to all those around you. On the other side the job needs to get done. Creating the right environment where all can flourish can be compared to modern politics. Whether expected or not the change has been significant in the last month not least just in the UK. Where the change of Prime Minister has raised more questions than one might expect. Surely the role of a leader is not to make personally differentiating polices from other leaders. May be when one looks closely it is the male testosterone of beating the chest that rules the tribe.
An example of this is with the rise of china as a economic power. China has grown significantly in the last 10 years. As it prepares to take its place on the centre stage. It would seem that when such an event occurs it is also necessary to have sufficient power to wipe out any one that disagrees with your ideas. China has embarked on a Military program second only to America. Powerful as these countries may be, they still appear as a social mess. China with no recognisable form of democracy and America with not even the basic social system to insure justice. Unfortunately neither of them seem preoccupied with these problems, much more concerned about who has the biggest tank, army, ship etc.
The world wide investment community is now a vociferous participant in the climate change debate-not least because it is predicted that this is where big profits will come from in the future.
A recent report in the in IOD talks about the impacts that climate change is having on business. There is no denying that it is big business now. The enthusiasm of the city for sustainable development is more than matched by the retail sector as it bows to pressure from the green consumer.
Marks & Spencer’s latest 100 point manifesto includes a pledge to reduce packaging by a quarter achieving carbon-neutral status by 2012 and use fair-trade cotton for even its cheapest items. For a company with the power to affect 2,000 factories and 10,000 farms, this is dramatic development. Chief executive Stuart Rose has pledged that the £200m cost will not be passed on to the consumer so he’s taking the gamble that that shareholders will be ”paid back” through increased sales.
Which only leaves me to ask what is the future for motorsport (Isle of man TT) Where a carbon neutral footprint has not been considered much less talked about. But if that is where the profits are they better get thinking….
