Revolutionary: “The Most Calories For The Least Work”
A Homesteading Today thread begins with a post by the self-described “Revolutionary” Ernie, who says:
Gardening is hard work. It’s backbreaking, sweaty, blistering, and monotonous. While I love the alchemy of turning soil, sunshine, and water into calories for my family, I would much rather sit in the shade underneath the old maples and fritter away the day. I am indeed a lazy bum. Luckily, there is a form of agriculture designed just for me.
He then goes on to describe permaculture, even using the magical phrase that got me so excited about the concept years ago, “minimal labor.” Ernie’s inspiring post is followed by insightful comments, including one with links to free (according to Australian copyright law) complete digital versions of Masanoba Fukuoka books, including The One Straw Revolution and The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy. What impressed me about Fukuoka’s approach, even beyond “minimal labor,” is what he called “do nothing” agriculture. Now that’s what I’m talking about! I can do nothing — in abundance.
This item and the comments were brought to my email inbox by a Google Alert set for the term “permaculture.” Alerts is how Google does free email marketing of articles for bloggers. Bloggers probably get even more love from Google by putting Adsense on their blogs and buying the occasional Adwords campaign.
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May 30th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
“Bloggers probably get even more love from Google by putting Adsense on their blogs and buying the occasional Adwords campaign.”
While I’m sure that Google enjoys the side effects of this ‘Publishers Clearinghouse’ style myth (ie. it leads to more business for them), it’s pretty well established that you cannot improve your position in search results by using either Adsense or Adwords.
At most, Google *may* share some of their crawling and indexing infrastructure between services so a side effect may be a small increase in the ‘freshness’ of your indexed content (even that is somewhat speculative, and your site would have to be pretty ’stale’ to see any benefit in any case). Ranking and relevance calculations are done independently for different services inside the Google cloud precisely to prevent this sort of influence, even the unintended variety.
Google has a page for webmasters here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
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