“When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.” – Bob Dylan

When your website’s got no rankings, you got no traffic to lose
You’re website is invisible now, you got no links to conceal.

Do not let another organization’s self-serving (and hypocritical) guidelines control your every move…especially if you are so new and unestablished that your biggest risk is never gaining traction.

The biggest risk you can ever take is taking no risk at all.

• You can’t benefit from pull marketing unless you first do push marketing.
• You can’t be a market maker without first being a market manipulator.
• If you are new, network effects are working against you right now.

YouTube used a legal loophole to loot billions of dollars of copyright content. Had they “played by the rules” they wouldn’t have been bought by Google for $1.65 billion. And you would not get to enjoy this wonderful video right now

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