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I missed the launch of Happy, the documentary film by Academy Award nominated director Roko Belic (Genghis Blues), when it was launched in the UK some months ago at an Action for Happiness event. This award winning documentary travels around the world looking at what makes people happy.
The organisation Students for Happiness will be screening The Happy Movie on Wednesday 21st November at The Bloomsbury Theatre in London. A ticket costs just £8 and any profits will be donated to the charity Mind. Watch the trailer and decide for yourself whether you want to go along. It will probably be £8 well spent. Click here to buy a ticket.
Posted by Shona Lockhart, 5th November 2012
Be positive, look on the bright side, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser
Article by Oliver Burkeman
In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor, in Michigan, stands a poignant memorial to humanity's shattered dreams. It doesn't look like that from the outside, though. Even when you get inside – which members of the public rarely do – it takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to what you're seeing. It appears to be a vast and haphazardly organised supermarket; along every aisle, grey metal shelves are crammed with thousands of packages of food and household products. There is something unusually cacophonous about the displays, and soon enough you work out the reason: unlike in a real supermarket, there is only one of each item. And you won't find many of them in a real supermarket anyway: they are failures, products withdrawn from sale after a few weeks or months, because almost nobody wanted to buy them. In the product-design business, the storehouse – operated by a company called GfK Custom Research North America – has acquired a nickname: the Museum of Failed Products.
This is consumer capitalism's graveyard – the shadow side to the relentlessly upbeat, success-focused culture of modern marketing. Or to put it less grandly: it's almost certainly the only place on the planet where you'll find Clairol's A Touch of Yogurt shampoo alongside Gillette's equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only, a few feet from a now-empty bottle of Pepsi AM Breakfast Cola (born 1989; died 1990). The museum is home to discontinued brands of caffeinated beer; to TV dinners branded with the logo of the toothpaste manufacturer Colgate; to self-heating soup cans that had a regrettable tendency to explode in customers' faces; and to packets of breath mints that had to be withdrawn from sale because they looked like the tiny packages of crack cocaine dispensed by America's street drug dealers. It is where microwaveable scrambled eggs – pre-scrambled and sold in a cardboard tube with a pop-up mechanism for easier consumption in the car – go to die.
There is a Japanese term, mono no aware, that translates roughly as "the pathos of things": it captures a kind of bittersweet melancholy at life's impermanence – that additional beauty imparted to cherry blossoms, say, or human features, as a result of their inevitably fleeting time on Earth. It's only stretching the concept slightly to suggest that this is how the museum's proprietor, an understatedly stylish GfK employee named Carol Sherry, feels about the cartons of Morning Banana Juice in her care, or about Fortune Snookies, a short-lived line of fortune cookies for dogs. Every failure, the way she sees it, embodies its own sad story on the part of designers, marketers and salespeople. It is never far from her mind that real people had their mortgages, their car payments and their family holidays riding on the success of products such as A Touch of Yogurt.
"I feel really sorry for the developer on this one," Sherry says, indicating the breath mints that inadvertently resembled crack. "I mean, I've met the guy. Why would he ever have spent any time on the streets, in the drug culture?" She shakes her head. "These are real people who sincerely want to do their best, and then, well, things happen."
Failure is everywhere. It's just that most of the time we'd rather avoid confronting that fact.
Behind all of the most popular modern approaches to happiness and success is the simple philosophy of focusing on things going right. But ever since the first philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, a dissenting perspective has proposed the opposite: that it's our relentless effort to feel happy, or to achieve certain goals, that is precisely what makes us miserable and sabotages our plans. And that it is our constant quest to eliminate or to ignore the negative – insecurity, uncertainty, failure, sadness – that causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain or unhappy in the first place.
Yet this conclusion does not have to be depressing. Instead, it points to an alternative approach: a "negative path" to happiness that entails taking a radically different stance towards those things most of us spend our lives trying hard to avoid. This involves learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity and becoming familiar with failure. In order to be truly happy, it turns out, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to stop running quite so hard from them.
In the world of self-help, the most overt expression of our obsession with optimism is the technique known as "positive visualisation": mentally picture things turning out well, the reasoning goes, and they're far more likely to do so. Indeed, a tendency to look on the bright side may be so intertwined with human survival that evolution has skewed us that way. In her book, The Optimism Bias, the neuroscientist Tali Sharot compiles growing evidence that a well-functioning mind may be built so as to perceive the odds of things going well as greater than they really are. Non-depressed people, research suggests, generally have a less accurate and overly optimistic grasp of their true ability to influence events than do those who are suffering from depression.
Yet there are problems with this outlook, aside from just feeling disappointed when things don't turn out well. Over the last few years, the German-born psychologist Gabriele Oettingen and her colleagues have constructed a series of experiments designed to unearth the truth about "positive fantasies about the future". The results are striking: spending time and energy focusing on how well things could go, it has emerged, actually reduces most people's motivation to achieve them. Experimental subjects who were encouraged to think about how they were going to have a particularly high-achieving week at work, for example, ended up achieving less. In one ingenious experiment, Oettingen had participants rendered mildly dehydrated. Then some were taken through an exercise that involved visualising drinking an icy, refreshing glass of water, while others took part in a different exercise. The water-visualisers experienced a significant reduction in their energy levels, as measured by blood pressure. Far from becoming more motivated to hydrate themselves, people responded to positive visualisation by relaxing. They seemed, subconsciously, to have confused imagining success with having already achieved it.
It doesn't necessarily follow, of course, that it would be a better idea to switch to negative visualisation instead. Yet that is precisely one of the conclusions that emerges from Stoicism, a school of philosophy that originated in Athens a few years after the death of Aristotle, and that came to dominate western thinking about happiness for nearly five centuries.
For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility – not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word "happiness". And tranquility was to be achieved not by chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances. One way to do this, the Stoics argued, was by turning towards negative emotions and experiences: not shunning them, but examining them closely instead.
Most of us, the Stoics point out, go through life under the delusion that it is certain people, situations or events that make us sad, anxious or angry. When you're irritated by a colleague at the next desk who won't stop talking, you naturally assume that the colleague is the source of the irritation; when you hear that a beloved relative is ill and feel pained for them, it makes sense to think of the illness as the source of the pain. Look closely at your experience, though, say the Stoics, and you'll be forced to conclude that neither of these external events is "negative" in itself. Indeed, nothing outside your own mind can properly be described as negative or positive at all: what actually causes suffering are the beliefs you hold about those things. The colleague is not irritating per se, but because of your belief that getting your work finished without interruption is an important goal. Even a relative's illness is only bad in view of your belief that it's a good thing for your relatives not to be ill. Millions of people, after all, get ill every day; we have no beliefs whatsoever about most of them, and consequently don't feel distressed.
For positive thinkers, this would be an argument for trying to replace your distress-causing beliefs with upbeat ones. But when thinking about the future, Stoics such as Seneca often counselled actively dwelling on worst-case scenarios instead – staring them in the face. Not only does ceaseless optimism make for a greater shock when things go wrong (and they will); imagining the worst also brings its own benefits. Psychologists have long agreed that one of the greatest enemies of human happiness is "hedonic adaptation" – the predictable and frustrating way in which any new source of pleasure we obtain, whether it's as minor as a new electronic gadget or as major as a marriage, swiftly gets relegated to the backdrop of our lives: we grow accustomed to it, and it ceases to deliver so much joy. It follows, then, that regularly reminding yourself that you might lose any of the things you currently enjoy can reverse the adaptation effect. Thinking about the possibility of losing something you value shifts it from the backdrop of your life back to centre stage, where it can deliver pleasure once more.
The second, subtler and arguably more powerful benefit of this kind of negative thinking is as an antidote to anxiety. Consider how we normally seek to assuage worries about the future: we seek reassurance, looking to persuade ourselves that everything will be all right in the end. But reassurance is a double-edged sword. In the short term, it can be wonderful, but like all forms of optimism, it requires constant maintenance: offer reassurance to a friend who is in the grip of anxiety, and you'll often find that, a few days later, he'll be back for more. Worse, reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it.
All too often, the Stoics note, things will not turn out for the best. But it is also true that, when they do go wrong, they'll almost certainly go less wrong than you feared. Losing your job is unlikely to condemn you to starvation and death; losing a relationship won't condemn you to a life of unrelenting misery. Those fears are based on irrational judgments about the future. The worst thing about any future event, the Stoic-influenced psychologist Albert Ellis used to say, "is usually your exaggerated belief in its horror". Spend time vividly imagining exactly how wrong things could go in reality, and you'll often turn bottomless, nebulous fears into finite and manageable ones. Happiness reached via positive thinking is fleeting and brittle; negative visualisation generates a vastly more dependable calm.
Fortunately, developing a healthier approach to failure may be easier than you'd think. The work of the Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck suggests that our experiences of failure are influenced overwhelmingly by the beliefs we hold about the nature of talent and ability – and that we can, perhaps quite straightforwardly, nudge ourselves towards a better outlook. Each of us can be placed somewhere on a continuum, Dweck argues, depending on our "implicit view" – or unspoken attitude – about what talent is and where it comes from. Those with a "fixed theory" assume that ability is innate; those with an "incremental theory" believe that it evolves through challenge and hard work. If you're the kind of person who strives mightily to avoid the experience of failure, it's likely that you reside near the "fixed" end of Dweck's continuum. Fixed-theory people approach challenges as occasions on which they are called upon to demonstrate their innate abilities, and so they find failure especially horrifying: to them, it's a sign that they tried to show how good they are, but didn't measure up. The classic example is the young sports star encouraged to think of himself as a "natural" – but who then fails to put in sufficient practice to realise his potential. If talent is innate, his unspoken reasoning goes, then why bother?
Incremental-theory people are different. Because they think of abilities as emerging through tackling challenges, the experience of failure has a completely different meaning for them: it's evidence that they are stretching themselves to their current limits. If they weren't, they wouldn't fail. The relevant analogy here is with weight training: muscles grow by being pushed to the limits of their current capacity, where fibres tear and reheal. Among weightlifters, "training to failure" isn't an admission of defeat – it's a strategy.
Happily, Dweck's studies indicate that we are not saddled for life with one mindset rather than another. Some people manage to alter their outlook simply by being introduced to the fixed versus incremental distinction. Alternatively, it's worth trying to recall it next time failure strikes: next time you flunk an exam, or mishandle a social situation, consider that it's happening only because you're pushing at the limits of your present abilities. And should you wish to encourage an incremental outlook in your children, Dweck advises, take care to praise them for their effort, rather than their intelligence: focusing on the latter is likely to exacerbate a fixed mindset, making them more reluctant to risk encountering failure in the future. The incremental mindset is the one more likely to lead to sustainable success. But the deeper point is that possessing an incremental outlook is a happier way to be, whether or not it leads to any outstanding success. It is a win-win proposition, for which the only precondition is a heartfelt willingness to lose.
Posted by Shona Lockhart, 16th June 2012
Last night I attended a great event organised by Action for Happiness who had invited Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman to talk about his new book "The Antidote: Happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking".
Oliver gave us a brief introduction to some of the research he had undertaken when writing his latest book, having consulted the teachings of psychologists, Buddhists, business consultants and philosphophers who are all of the opinion that "if only we stopped trying so hard to be happy we could have a pretty good time". (A quote which according to Burkeman has been wrongly attributed to Edith Wharton)
These great teachers argue that an alternative to the pressure to be eternally optimistic and to always look on the bright side of life is to follow a more negative route to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, allowing ourselves to be pessimistic and to feeling insecure and uncertain – the very things which we traditionally spend our lives trying to avoid.
He quoted American psychologist Albert Ellis who stated that "the worst thing about any future event is your exaggerated belief in its horror". Ellis apparently advised Oliver Burkeman to try out this theory by travelling on the London underground and shouting out the name of every stop to the other passengers as the train arrived in each new station. Oliver did, in fact, try out this theory and although it was a horribly embarrassing thing to do it wasn't nearly as bad as he imagined it would be and he didn't die or get locked up!
Oliver mentioned the Stoic phiolsophers, Seneca and Epetitus who advocated 'negative visualisations' and 'defensive pessimism' as coping mechanisms. He also advocated experimenting with the Buddhist concept of "non-attachment" so that we learn to see our emotions as being no more significant than the weather.
He recommended building examples of our own mortality in to our life and looked at the practice of celebrating the Day of the Dead in Mexico (Día de los Muertos) which helps people to cope with the passing of loved ones as well as celebrate their lives. This point was illustrated with a well-know quote from Steve Jobs:
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." Steve Jobs
The journalist also argued that our constant striving towards a permanent state of happiness and perfection results in us perpetually beating ourselves up about our own inevitable inadequacies and failures. A quote from Anne Lamott's book "Bird by Bird: instructions on Writing and Life" illustrated this point very well:
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it."
It was a very interesting evening and I look forward to reading Oliver Burkeman's new book with just enough negative anticipation to guarantee that I will find the reading of it a pleasurable and enlightening experience.
I must be turning in to a bit of an Oliver Burkeman groupie at the moment as I am currently reading his previous book Help: How to become slightly happier and get a bit more done
Until the Action for Happiness video of last night's event goes live you could do much worse than watch this RSA talk which Oliver Burkeman gave about this previous book. I could be wildly enthusiastic and tell you that it is a very amusing, uplifting and informative talk which you are guaranteed to enjoy but then Oliver Burkeman probably wouldn't approve of such unbridled positivity. All I will say is please watch the video and if you are feeling really enthusiastic you can also read his books and decide for yourself armed of course with just enough Buddhist 'non-attachment' to ensure that your judgement is not impaired.
Posted by Shona Lockhart on 15th June 2012
As part of my experimentation with Positive Psychology I am always keen to go along to events and to listen to new ideas. I have just booked to attend the next Action For Happiness event with Oliver Burkeman which is detailed below. There are still tickets available so do join me.
If you would like a sneak preview of Oliver Burkeman take a look at this video of his RSA talk on "How to become slightly happier" which was the topic of his previous book.
I look forward to seeing you at the event.
The Antidote with Oliver Burkeman
Join us for a unique and thought-provoking evening as author and columnist Oliver Burkeman brings his refreshing perspective on how to lead a happy life without the need for constant positive thinking.
Oliver will share the insights from his new book The Antidote, which explains why embracing the negative aspects of life may in fact be essential for our happiness. It's a fascinating and counter-intuitive message that turns self-help advice on its head and forces us to rethink our attitudes towards failure, uncertainty and death.
About Oliver Burkeman
Oliver writes This Column Will Change Your Life in The Guardian, where he regularly investigates social psychology, self-help culture and the science of happiness. His new book The Antidote will be in the shops from 21 June, but exclusive advance copies will be available at this event.
His previous book HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done is a witty and thought-provoking exploration of the world of self-help books, which aims to sort out the good ideas from the terrible ones.
Location and Timings
This event will take place at Conway Hall in central London on Thursday 14 June 2012. Doors will open at 18:45 and the event will start at 19:00.
This event is raising funds to support the work of Action for Happiness. We want to make it accessible to as many people as possible, so rather than charging a fixed fee we're instead asking you to make a donation. It would be great if you could donate£15, but if you can spare more, or feel unable to give that much, then please give what you feel is appropriate.
All funds raised (beyond the costs of putting on the event) will contribute directly to Action for Happiness' work relating to growing the movement, enabling local action groups and supporting activities relating to happiness and well-being in schools. Action for Happiness is part of the Young Foundation, which is a Registered Charity (274345) in England and Wales.
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Comment posted The Diamond Jubilee Thames River Pageant by Robert Wakeham.
There seems to be quite a lot of ignorance in the BBC – at least, going by their news website; the latest was just last weekend, when the boat involved in the sad fatality off Greenock was described as a cabin cruiser and a yacht. Since corrected, but there's a steady 'drip' of this sort of stuff, and one of the most common is referring to the ground, or the road, as the 'floor'. Auntie needs to sharpen her act.
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- Unfortunately some people's nostalgic idea of an enjoyable day out would be to watch christians being fed to the lions, or take their knitting down to the guillotine, or (in some places still) to settle down to enjoy a good stoning.
- Some European countries seem to have much lower profile – but popular – royal families; are the SNP planning a new 'Royal Family Lite' for Scotland?
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I'm just wondering if this is a wild goose chase – barking up the wrong tree, so to speak – and it might be a creature of a different political colour altogether? - Walsh to lead all but Lib Dems, Conservatives and George Freeman
Talking of Conservatives, and bearing in mind the ornithological wonders of this part of the world, has anyone yet spotted a swivel-eyed loon? – or is it an imaginary creature? - First Minister's choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
Farage was in Edinburgh to raise the profile of UKIP – don't underestimate wee Nige. - Walsh to lead all but Lib Dems, Conservatives and George Freeman
This reads uncannily like a description of Tommy Sheridan's erstwhile political buddies – although they, thank goodness, have never managed to grab the reins of power. - Finally, SNP Government delivers a passenger ferry capable of seeing off Western Ferries
There's a quite accurate measure of economic activity if you look around at where tower cranes signify construction in progress, and there are more in London than in the whole of the rest of Britain. Last autumn at a do in London I suggested to a senior Canary Wharf construction executive that London was increasingly behaving like a separate 'city state', with an economy that operated independently to that of the rest of Britain.
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From 06-Jan-2014 to 12-Jan-2014 *** Latest event details are yet to be confirmed *** Apia International Sydney 2013 promises to be one of the best tennis experiences in the nation. Apia International Sydney 2013, proudly supported by Apia, in association with Medibank, South African Airways and Destination NSW on behalf of the NSW Government, is a key international sports event on the 2013 NSW Events Calendar. Please visit the website for further updates on the 2013 event.
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From 31-Dec-2013 to 01-Jan-2014 *** Latest event details are yet to be confirmed *** There's no better place to welcome the new year than in Sydney - the New Year's Eve Capital of the World. Be one of the first in the world to welcome the new year as Sydney dazzles you with its world-class event and a spectacular Midnight Fireworks Display. The internationally-loved event on Sydney Harbour brings in more than 1.5 million spectators and is watched by more than 1 billion viewers across the world. Celebrations start with Pre-Show Entertainment from 5pm and festivities get bigger with the not-to-be-missed 9pm Family and Midnight Fireworks Displays. Start your party plans early and make sure you get a front row seat to the best show in the world. Visit the Sydney New Year's Eve website or download the free iPhone app to plan ahead and get the latest event information.
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From 26-Dec-2013 to 01-Jan-2014 The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 will be conducted on the waters of Sydney Harbour, the Tasman Sea, Storm Bay and the Derwent River. Over the past 68 years, the Rolex Sydney Hobart has become an icon of Australia's summer sport, ranking in public interest with such national events as the Melbourne Cup horse race, the Davis Cup tennis and the cricket tests between Australia and England. No regular annual yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage than does the start on Sydney Harbour. Participants from maxi yachts to weekend racers take part in this event, which starts from Nielsen Park in Sydney Harbour and takes the international fleet 628 nautical miles to the finish line in the Derwent River, Hobart.
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From 23-Nov-2013 to 24-Nov-2013 *** Latest event details are yet to be confirmed *** The Schools Spectacular is a world-class arena production and one of the largest annual events of its calibre anywhere in Australia - and arguably the world. Since 1984 the Schools Spectacular has grown to become more than just a showcase highlighting the talents of the students of New South Wales public schools. It is an iconic cultural event incorporating students from diverse backgrounds and communities from the length and breadth of the state. The Schools Spectacular is a remarkable New South Wales success story and is proudly presented by the NSW Department of Education and Communities.
Olympic Park, Sydney Suburbs, New South Wales, 2140 Website: www.chandraat.net New South Wales FESTIVAL 9144766 Phone Number: 61 02 9648 6421
From 07-Aug-2013 to 07-Aug-2013 Chand Raat Eid Festival (CREF) is a unique event of its kind in Australia which has been organised for the past 15 years. CREF celebrates end of Ramadan and Eid ul Fitr festivities, engaging with multicultural communities and broad Australians across New South Wales (Sydney) and Victoria (Melbourne). The CREF enriches the experience of Eid Eve Celebrations (Chand Raat) in Australia along with Canada, USA and Europe. The Festival presents an exuberant cultural display of multicultural Australia and bringing our diverse community together to share their joys, happiness and friendship. It captures the optimistic spirit of the Eid Eve Celebrations, creating a unique and welcoming occasion for the families every year. It is an open event for everyone without any religious or cultural boundaries. The Chand Raat Festival has become a very special long awaited annual event with many renowned South Asian community and local leaders.
Sydney Town Hall to Chinatown, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000 Website: www.sydneychinesenewyear.com New South Wales FESTIVAL 9107665 Phone Number: 61 02 9265 9333
From 17-Feb-2014 to 17-Feb-2014 *** Latest event details are yet to be confirmed *** Sydney's streets will again be filled with lanterns, lights, dragons and dancers for the 2013 Chinese New Year Twilight Parade, celebrating the Year of the Snake. The inaugural Twilight Parade in 2012 involved almost 3,000 performers and drew crowds of more than 100,000 people to the festival's most beautiful event. Local and international participants are planning some spectacular parade entries and performances celebrating Chinese Australian culture and the Lunar New Year. Come to the parade early to secure a good viewing location, and follow the parade to Darling Harbour afterwards to celebrate with a fireworks display. For more details on the Parade and all the other Chinese New Year events including Chinatown Markets at Belmore Park and Dragon Boat Races in Darling Harbour visit their website.
Various venues throughout Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000 Website: www.biennaleofsydney.com New South Wales EXHIBIT 9059431 Phone Number: 61 02 8484 8700 Fax Number: 61 02 9368 1617
From 21-Mar-2014 to 09-Jun-2014 The 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, curated by Juliana Engberg, will open to the public from 21 March until 9 June 2014. The Biennale of Sydney is a non-profit organisation that presents Australia's largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts event. Held every two years, the Biennale presents a three-month exhibition, with an accompanying program of artist talks, performances, forums, film screenings, family events, guided tours and other special events, all FREE to the public. The inaugural Biennale of Sydney was staged in 1973 to provide an international showcase for contemporary art. Its aim was to develop and present a program that challenged traditional thinking and encouraged new levels of enthusiasm for innovative creative expression. The 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) marks the organisation's 40th anniversary. Please visit the Biennale of Sydney website for more information.
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Something I have been noticing over the last six weeks or so is that the number of domains linking to my site (as reported by Google Webmaster Tools) has been decreasing every week. There used to be 832, but today there are 670. That means that over the period I've lost around 20% of the sites which used to link to me. All the sites that have gone provided irrelevant, low value links and they weren't ones that I'd placed ( I have been deleting some reciprocal links that I had but I have excluded them from the figures).
But during the same period my SERP has been improving, and today when I checked I got the most consistent results I've ever had. Since last week, of the 30 keywords I am tracking 16 moved up and the other 14 stayed the same, and I have never before had a week without at least some words slipping down. On looking at my nearest competitor, I was pleased to see that they had dropped down for a number of keywords.
I have done a little updating of the site, but nothing major and in fact have removed more than I have added, so it isn't because of site improvements, and both mine and the competitor site have the same last cached date of March 24.
Of course, nothing can be concluded from what has happened to just one site, but I am wondering whether Google's re-evaluation of links is rather more far reaching than I imagined from the little they said about it. For the site to actually improve in the rankings at the same time as links have fallen suggests three main possibilities to me:
1) Perhaps not only did these links have little or no value anyway, but other lnks have been given more value.
2) Rather than it being an improvement for my site, it has moved up because my competitors have moved down, i.e. if they have also lost links they were ones which were important to them.
3) It is just coincidence, and something else entirely different has been given more weight as a factor.
So, what I'd like to know please is whether anyone else has experienced a similar loss of linking domains, and if so what has been happening to their SERPs during that time?
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Lot of things are concluded out of this and so let me share what all I have read and understood.
Lot of your sites that were linking to you are being de-indexed by Google and blog networks are being de-index by large number. BuildMyRank.com has officially declared as shutting down their service. See http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run SERP increase means now Google is valuing valuable content. My assumption of reducing the impact of links is not what Google opted for but it is de-indexing content or sites that don't add any value to their users and customers. I think this is very related to Matt Cutts statement of over optimization and assumption of working on the links for over optimization rather than content. |
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27Mar2012,18:22 | #13 |
There was a fluctuation in rankings few days back may be that is the reason why it happened.
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Originally Posted by shabbir I have looked at the sites individually where my link has been no longer counted, and with a few a exceptions nearly all of them are still live, i.e. they have not been de-indexed. I don't do blog commenting and I don't syndicate my blog generally so I haven't been hit by any of that. Anyway, the point is that I haven't suffered by this, I have gained, although of course it may be as I said in my OP that my competitors have suffered, and that has helped my SERPs. This thread could end up merging with another I have about over-optimization, so although I have further comment on that issue I will post it there. |
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27Mar2012,19:49 | #16 |
Maybe this article is interesting, it was posted today by Danny Sullivan who was present and took part in the discussion where Matt Cutts talked about over-optimization.
There is quite a lot to read but one of the things that comes out of it is the suggestion that Google has long had the means to penalize for different things but hasn't actually done it. Which is what I was referring to with my analogy with a police clampdown situation. From a starting viewpoint where Google's attitude was that they didn't need to penalize anyone, they now seem to be moving into one where if a site doesn't fit, it is out. I am wondering if they are going a bit too far in deciding what people should and should not see in their search results. I would ask that anyone who wants to comment on the article should read it first: http://marketingland.com/is-googles-...eb-search-8633 |
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28Mar2012,09:20 | #17 |
Yes I am also gaining traffic but not very highly and this means my competitors are not that badly affected.
Merging of threads yes. Done. |
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My traffic has increased 15% over the previous month but 8% of that is directly due to some advertising I did, and I would normally expect a seasonal increase now anyway. But I don't know how my competitors traffic has fared, perhaps it has fallen or maybe not, and without that comparative data it is again difficult to draw any conclusions.
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I agree that the main focus should be on one's own site, but in a competitive environment it can also be useful to keep an eye on what the competition is doing.


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In addition to Vaught, there are several other adults who will be working with the production. They include, Elaine Blythe, musical director; Tara Ragland, assistant musical director; Vickie Costellow, costumes; Melanie Manley, assistant director; Kim Moberly, choreography; Eddie Brooks, lights; Brian Brown, sound and Sydney Herndon will be designing the backdrops.
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They did the same thing with Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles, allow me to prove my point. By the time it was released in the US, Japan was already in the "Rescue Sasuke Arc" and these were changed from the Japanese:
1. The Hokages Chair is empty, in the Japanese Tsunade was sat here.
2. Shikamaru has been demoted to Genin from Chuunin.
3. The Rasengan has been renamed Power Strike.
4. The Kisame boss was replaced with Kabuto.
5. The Evil Clone (Itachi) boss fight was removed.
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7. All FMV scenes invloving Tsunade, Itachi, and Kisame were removed from the game.
8. Gaara is in his pre-Sasuke arc clothes.
9. The battle with Shukaku Gaara was removed.
What do you expect, the game was released before the dub even reached the Chunin Finals. It can't be helped. It seems as though the game was originally made to be uncut, ,but changed towards the end of productionm as Neji references the time that "You beat me" even though Naruto had not beat him yet, and Maile(Naruto's VA) said she recorded "Rasengan" for the game, even though it was only said in cutscenes in the original, and changed to Powerstrike in the Dub version
*And did you* just copy that from Wikipedia? Their list is missing alot of things, including Kakashi replacing Gaara in the last level, as well as the last boss fight.
I am still waiting for an uncut re-release. Months after it was released, many sites had new pics involving cutscenes cut from the dub version*
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It would be nice if they took them out because i don't want to see them but in the japanes show they put them in so the manga could get ahead of the show and right now the show is ahead of the manga.
Fillers exist because the anime is an adaption of the manga
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