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Hey Googlers - It's OK To Be Honest & Direct When Answering Questions

Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 8:14 am
Posted By: annie7 376 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO

Rand Fishkin's take on Google live chat session: "Rather than attack the content provided by the Googlers directly, I thought it would be more valuable to provide the answers from Google alongside the answers I would have given. Hopefully, in this fashion, I can better explain my fears about how Google is communicating with website owners and marketers."

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from ankitrawat 375 days ago #

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Great answers rand !! Hatts off !!

from sza 375 days ago #

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The sad state of affairs is:

Hi Jonathan, when building your site and considering [whatever], it's best to always think, "could it unwittingly trip a search engine filter after which you will struggle to recover even with the best of intentions?"

from SlightlyShadySEO 375 days ago #

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While I think it's great Google is even pretending to answer these questions, I think it's safe to say their answers would have set off their own "duplicate content" filters.