Lead Gen, Associate, and SEO Guru Adam Torkildson

The arm moves in wrestling include the arm breakers, arm drags, over the shoulder arm drags, arm swings, etc. The arm bar take down is another of the moves in wrestling. The arm bar attacks by forcing the arm of the opponent downward.

The challenger feels the strain about the shoulder area and the assailant then grips the arms extending them lengthwise. The shoulder is eventually dropped to the mat. This will result in a pin in most cases unless the wrestler can wriggle his/her way out of the hold.

The arm breaker manoeuvres include the slamming of the arms, typically on an area of the opponent’s body where it will hurt. Typically, the pin ends with the scissors hold, where the wrestler’s legs are crossed over the challenger’s body, holding his/her shoulders down to the mat.

The various moves, manoeuvres and holds appear to be painful in the ring, but the fact is that these wrestling moves are all choreographed, that is, they are just a theatrical show to get your attention. The actors rehearse their scenes long before they get into the ring and are trained to send ‘signals’ to end the bout whenever should they want to.

The wrestlingmoves seem real on television, because the cameras and other distractions, including models, divert the attention of the viewers. Wrestling is really quite similar to how magicians work. Magicians rehearse their stage act before they go on the stage. There is always a feint or an explanation, yet the magician does his act so smoothly and the audience is so distracted, that the magician makes people believe that he or she is doing the thing for real.

The ‘arm drags’ involve the assailant getting the opponent in a hook move and then flipping the challenger down to the mats. Most of the moves are thought up by one or the other of the wrestlers and sometimes it may become a popular move. Some of the older moves are the Gallatin and the Banana Split

The ‘over the shoulder’ move should be called the body slam since the opponent will throw the challenger over his shoulder, slamming him/her onto the mat. At one time, this wrestling move was probably a slammer, but today it is the shoulder-arm throw move.

The ‘wringer; is another of the arm moves in wrestling which is sometimes known as the ‘spin wrist lock hold’. This move is often followed by the Irish Thrash moves, mallet locks or gouges.

Other arm moves include the arm stretches, arm breakers, arm wringer, arm locks, arm bar and arm scissors. While the arm moves are famous in the ring, there are many new moves today that you would never have heard of when wrestling first began in ancient times. The Amityville Horror is one of wrestling’s more modern moves. Although, I haven’t figured out what this move entails, we are about to look at it together.

From what I can make out the Amityville Horror is just a way to persuade people to rent or buy the film with the same name. The move is listed in the list of wrestling moves, however, so far, no information is available about what this move entails. Moves are basically brands made up by the wrestlers themselves, so I’m assuming that the wrestler felt he had devised one of the most horrific moves in wrestling and so he called it the Amityville Horror.

Why do some moves get roaring applause? Well, it can start when a wrestler in the ring brings in something new and it becomes his trademark, popular final move in bouts.

Our SEO strategy blog was supposed to be our research material to be among a few colleagues in the SEO industry. We used it as a notepad where we featured key research projects for overall optimization strategy. Although we had no intention of making the blog available to outside parties, we were surprised to find that after a few short weeks, the blog was on page 2 of Google for the keyword: “SEO Statregy”. In the midst of a highly competitive market for a competitive keyword, how did this blog surface in the top 15 links on Google? Being that we have many other blogs that have what we perceived to be better content, we felt this phenomenon deserved further analysis.

The fact is that this blog was never intended to be seen by anyone but a small group of SEO professionals sharing findings and asking questions. The notes that we made there are research notes regarding SEO elements that relate to some current clients of mine as well as holistic concepts about Twitter, local map optimization, and new types of domain names that deal with the Trust Rank. The notes are raw and free of any referencing elements or links that might promote another web site with the exception of an RSS feed that we (our team) read to learn more about social media as it relates to SEO.

So, here is the Zen. The blog ranked high for competitive search terms without actions that are typically associated with website promotion such as directory submissions, meta tag optimization, or changes to anchor tags/text. Why? That is the question. The answer is in the following qualities of this blog:

1. This blog had no intent to promote or reference anything. In a total of 11 posts, it has only 1 outbound link within the body of the blog. What does that mean? Every other promotional blog makes references via links so they are designed to rank well on Google almost always has a specific “acceptable ratio” of keywords to links. Thus, those blogs are easy for Google to identify as “referencing” or “promoting” blogs as opposed to blogs that are not trying to “game” the search engines, but be provide quality content. In our case, the content was for internal purposes.

2. There are no ad feeds in this blog. Once again, this blog appears as though it’s not manipulating search engines to attempt to rank high. It just sits here and grows. The content has grown with no outbound linking or other promotional link references.

3. No ad feeds are found in this blog. No Adsense, banners, or other ads are feeding into the blog in question.

4. For the purpose of simply having a short and easy remember place for the blog, we bought a simple but relevant domain name. It was a Blogspot blog prior to this change. This is theory, as most predictions about search engine ranking preferences are, but we have other Blogspot blogs that are stuck in the sand box that have good content. The domain name purchase may have given this page a small vote of confidence because we made a small investment in creating a home for this lonely little blog.

5. The domain name is relevant to the topic. This appears to help rank the blog well; however, with so many other domain names with the same words included in them, it can only be a small factor.

In the end, SEO strategists are searching in the dark for Google’s philosophy. The philosophy is taught to us through the ranking of the pages we watch and change. So what has this taught me a about Google’s philosophy? Create sincere value without much promotion and advertising and users will like the page so the page may rank higher as a result. Create a page with the intent to promote and it is likely to be treated with a greater degree of scrutiny without the liberal application of better ranking (not Page Rank – note this is a PR 0 that has some first page placements).

Is it Zen in the Art of SEO? If you want to promote, don’t promote – grasshopper. This might be the axiom to live by in our profession.