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A Search Geeks Guide to Google Brand Bias
SEO News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Published: Mar 05, 2009 - 03:58 am
Story Found By: waveshoppe 1175 Days ago
Category: SEO
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from footinmouthdisease 1175 Days ago #
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"Crafting a specific algo to pump up brand names is just to fantastical and smacks of PR not Scientific SEO"

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from NatashaRobinson 1175 Days ago #
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Back in 2006 I came across a few VERY LARGE web entities (owned by the same corporation) that were doing some fairly dodgy keyword injection schemes.  Considering the stature of these entities I was kind of shocked to see this. Being the good little web citizen that I am, went off to talk to my Googler friend to bring this to light."  Not gonna hijack this, but that is not my definition of a "good little web citizen"....  - LOL ;)Anyhow...  the point I’m making by the above statement is that while I believe what I wrote above to be true, it’s not important to the issues that have been raised over the last couple of weeks, won’t help us figure out what is going on with the examples that Aaron pointed out etc... So my hope is that the discussions on these topics would stay about the issues and not start getting personal as they have because together we COULD really figure out what is going on... but won’t if we devolve this into a personal attacks thing.

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from theGypsy 1174 Days ago #
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lol...Nat...erm... wasn’t actually attacking anyone personally, I made sure to keep direct attacks out on purpose. I have no probs with Aaron’s discovery only some of the comments made since and the usual spate of blog titles that spring up. I said the stlye of reporting wasn’t my thing, but otherwise my frustrations were pointed at how we tend to disseminate such things in the industry. I have seen such a wide range of reactions to Aaron’s discovery that were so wildly off base one wonders why there is such a lack of understanding of search engine in the biz. This is my frustration... it just seems that sometimes big fish stories are more important than actionable items. I commended Aaron a few times, including in the post and call for more investigation - but based from potential approaches, not as much from wild guessing - and I whine and bitch at times...it’s just the way it works out.If anything it’s my frustration showing through and likely could have been more costructively put together, just didn’t work out that way. I do support peeps like Ruud that have tried to get the focus of this discussion back into the research at hand... sadly it doesn’t happen as much as it could and that’s kind of what miffs me....seems the headlines are more important than what we can really take from it all...I do apologize if my sideways direction isn’t always the most helpful... im just an excitable fellaAs for the other bit...no, I don’t make a habit of outing peeps... I was helping a local church with some nastiness at the time and a major brand injecting for terms such as ’real rape videos’ did not make me a happy human being... there are lines that when crossed, U can count me in to stand up instead of walking away. If that make me unsaviory to the SEO crowd...so be it. It was not only bad SEO, it was bad fckn taste.. Not sure how that makes me a bad person....sigh...See? these are the things that makes me wonder... Where do we draw the line? What exaclty IS an SEO? Maybe Im not one then.... I suppose I got lost somewhere and it began to be about more than $$ to me... I actually give a sh@t...The example was given because I know there is a brand bias and this isn’t massive news, but I felt the story relevant to the current discussions...

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from Misscj 1174 Days ago #
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Phew...we get on with looking at the thing in a calm helpful way then.  That’ll be cool :)

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