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Sorry Aaron Wall - I f'ed up

Posted By: SexySEO 522 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler

"My somewhat sarcastic post “Avoiding the well known #4 penalty“, where I joked about a possible Google #6 filter and criticized the SEO/Webmaster community for invalid methods of dealing with SERP anomalies, reads like “Aaron Wall is a clueless douche-bag”. Of course that’s not true, I never thought that, and I apologize for damaging Aaron’s reputation so thoughtlessly."

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from SexySEO 522 days ago #

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Aaron, Sebastian! You tearing my heart apart! Don't stretch it no more! Calm down, pleassse :)

from SexySEO 522 days ago #

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Ah! I feel better now :D http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/apology-to-aaron-wall/#comment-1085

from dannysullivan 521 days ago #

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FYI, I made the title family friendly :)

from SexySEO 521 days ago #

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Thank you, Danny (confused) :)

from wheel 520 days ago #

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Folks couldn't just send an email apology? This needs to be front page news on Sphinn?

from SharpSEO 519 days ago #

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Wheel - I don't see anything wrong with a public apology here. He poked fun at Aaron and everyone who was saying the #6 thing may be real. But once Matt acknowledged it, he was big enough to own up to his mistake. If you take a jab at someone in public, seems right to make the apology public.

I remember a few years ago people in DP forums laughing at those of us who noticed the -30 penalty. I don't know if that one ever officially got acknowledged, but it's pretty widely accepted that some sort of penalty/algo-change was causing it.