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Simon Abramovitch 'Defender of SEO' says "Last fall, I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009, where Technorati founder Dave Sifry proudly announced that “SEO is snake oil, and that if anyone in the audience was approached by someone offering SEO, they should run.” The audience chuckled and moved on. I think I must have been the only optimizer listening, because looking around me, no one was sneering at him like I was..."
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from dannysullivan 731 Days ago #
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Considering Technorati is a huge SEO play....

Still, I'm just trying more and more to ignore this stuff. People who know better, or should know better, say stuff like this. I guess the earth is flat, too.



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from onreact 729 Days ago #
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Like Mahalo Technorati is just a scraper site so he shouldn't bad mouth the SEO industry or Aaron Wall may make a new case study. Also I remember Technorati having been almost banned from the Google index a few years ago after they scraped too much.



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