I know way to much on this topic, owned one of the top 3 keyword research websites back in the day, and wrote and sold a few patents on reverse engineering googles ranking  algorithms, and a lot more.The bottom line is SEO is a continues process, there is no one hit process as the target is always moving.For those who want to keep up with things, check out SEOMoz blog, Search Engine Land, and Webmaster World.SEO is something you have to live eat and breath if you really want to be good at it.

@Hoa Nguyen I wanted to address this as I see this mentioned a lot on BP, and it is patently false and a dangerous idea that keeps spreading.

You could take the seller to court, but you'd probably have to prove that they knew about the issue and intentionally covered it up, and it would be an uphill battle IMO because un-level floors are a patent defect (easily found problem) as opposed to a latent defect (one that can't be seen easily just by walking around or inspecting the property).

But if you do just a small amount of research, you'll learn the federal government owns the patent to use cannabis for medical uses but denies those same uses for federal legalization.

They are bought or created to increase a firm's value or benefit the firm's operations.An asset can be thought of as something that, in the future, can generate cash flow, reduce expenses, or improve sales, regardless of whether it's manufacturing equipment or a patent."

.: I agree with you that spending is the correct metric to evaluate the size of government and it has been constantly increasing over the last few decades.This is patently obvious to anyone that analyzes the problem.

In most cases, the business model of a start-up is to creating "something" that you can patent or copyright so that you can sell that "something" to a huge corporation.

Have 2 patents on DSL technology.

We manufacture and have the patent on the only Smart smoke detector that is completely self contained and monitored 24/7 through cellular networks.

But what's the difference at most other than the job quality is the housing quality, 400k home in oakland would be very different than 400k home in birmingham or in Dallas.This time around, in 2023, we see almost similarities compare to 2001 dotcom crash but itseems 2023 would be more impactful because (a) now we have more distributed human resources that can do engineering (b) most companies are having established setup in Texas and also in India, so it's easy to switch group location (c) most of these remote office outside bay area also already able handling core product that generates company revenue , for exampl I would not be surprise if by 2028, Apple would move their core IOS team to Austin, it's high probability now and something that's unthinkabl 5 years ago (d) Having said that, it's the quality of the job that's being moved in-shore or out-shore that's mind boggling (e) The quality of people that got laid off in 2023 is super high quality people, lot of people that has wrote US patent has been laid off, usually these kind of groups are very untouchable but not at this time (f) the impact of automation and AI is also mind boggling, the job cuts because of AI has been started, in the tech industry itself, although everyone is still confuse of what would happen in the future and everyone is skeptical but carrying their hype around (i) since CFO is more powerful than CTO, so we would see the trend of cost cuttting more and more, big company can just layoff 20-30% non-stop or they would start consolidating in the industry which would trigger another 50% cut of layoffs in managerial position or administration position.We are already in tech recession in CA.