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Posted By: Dwainj 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google
Andy has 4 nominations in the Semmy's..well deserved.
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from AndyBeard 191 days ago #
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if you want to rant about why your rant post isn't listed be my guest. Apparently Matt says people are also questioning why their post was included as a rant. All good fun.

I have actually emailed Loren to discuss how we should judge the quality of a rant

from SlightlyShadySEO 191 days ago #
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from johnandrews 190 days ago #
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Yeah, I asked about that. To me many of those articles are not rants, but just critical commentary. I don't think my "SEOs are the Card Counters of the Internet" is a rant, but I can see how a PayPerClick guy might classify everything anti-Google-Paid-search as a rant. I can understand the skewed perspective that might exist.

The downside of listing non-rants as rants is two-fold. First, if they actually won "best rant" (which they won't) who except the author of a real rant would want to claim their article was voted Best Rant? Second, only a real rant has what it takes to win Best Rant, which leaves the not-really-rants out of contention by definition.

I thought there should have been a category for "critical thinking" or something, in addition to rants. Mat has said this is the first time and he's receptive to ideas to make it better.


from MattMcGee 190 days ago #
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I think winning "Best Rant" should be a badge of honor, myself. :-)

from AndyBeard 190 days ago #
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My way of thinking is a good rant has to have a lot of solid content to support it, thus I am biased to posts like your card counters post john, or Danny on SEO is Bull type stuff.

A post needs to be unforgetable and the kind of thing I will want to link to as timeless content.

I wouldn't look on "rank" as someone losing their marbles, and would also like to think of it as a badge of honor

from cre8pc 189 days ago #
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I like the "critical thinking" category and agree that categories are open to interpretation.  I was voted "Most Radical" of my senior class and to this day still have no idea what that means :)


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