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Prime Minister James Marape has called out to landlords leasing their buildings to Government offices to be aware that his Government is moving into arrangements to own those buildings. James Marape says they will be moving into the build-operate lease transfer arrangements to own those buildings in the next 10 to 15 years’ time.  He said after paying out the outstanding leases they will be working towards owning those buildings. The Prime Minister made this bold statement in response to Journalists’ questions about government officials being locked out at Vulupindi and Revenue Haus respectively by landlord Nambawan Super Limited (NSL). This happened over non-payment of rental arrears by the Government. Marape was responding to the Journalists upon his arrival at the airport from his oversea trips. ”Much of those arrears are arrears we have been carrying over from many many years back but our government has been cleaning up these. ”The Landlords are business, the...

Google keeps on changing its algorithms and policies regarding link building and link exchange. This time around, in their updated link schemes document under the Webmaster guidelines, Google has included large-scale guest posting , advertorials, and links in distributed articles/press releases/products to be in violation of their policies. This new development is among the stream of other changes Google has made so far this year, and seems to be an alarming one. Because not only will it apply to large scale guest posting and press releases, it will also apply to sites sharing free widgets, plugins, and templates, and then linking to themselves in those products. UPDATE: This article was updated in 2017 to include latest link building policy by Google. These new policies include three major types of backlinks. Links generated from large-scale guest posting and article marketing, links generated from advertorials and native advertisements, and links in distributed articles/news relea...