March (Link) Madness: Breaking Free of Link-sanity

Along with much of the rest of the country, this week I submitted my official NCAA tournament bracket to the office pool. I, like most people, have a final showdown between Kentucky and UNC with the Wildcats coming out on top. Now, I’m not a sports fan, I married one so I’m subjected to a lot more games and ESPN than I’m used to, but still I’d never consider myself a “sports person”. Yet every year I fill out a bracket, follow the entire championship (well unless I’m completely busted by the Sweet 16) and get swept up in the “madness.” I can’t help it, it’s contagious. March Madness got me thinking about another kind of “madness” we get caught up in: building links. Everybody wants links. But we don’t just want them; we go nuts for them like a crowd explodes when a T-shirt gun comes out. Everyone has the best intentions but we let ourselves buy into certain kinds of hyster...

Full article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161565/March-Link-M...

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