It says something about the rugby that I’m typing this instead of watching it, but as it seems to me that the whole "Rand’s a rat", "No, he’s not", "Yeah, is so" (repeat until you want to cut your own eyes out with a rusty spoon) thing is getting out of hand.
So I thought that I would create a discussion just so that the two other people out there who are bored of it (at least I hope that there are at least two) can talk about, well anything really - so long as it’s at least vaguely positive.
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So I thought that I would create a discussion just so that the two other people out there who are bored of it (at least I hope that there are at least two) can talk about, well anything really - so long as it’s at least vaguely positive.
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Here’s something vaguely positive: Rand is being attacked these days, as quite a few have before him, because he’s done such a good job of making himself and his company known to the community. He’s succeeded in getting a lot of attention, and some of that attention is just bound to be negative.
Greg Boser was attacked by some people in the real estate webmaster community for supposedly "outing" a link spam network while filing reinclusion requests for sites that used hundreds of states/cities/counties pages for excessive link swapping with other real estate webmasters. After his involvement with AA, a sizeable number of real estate websites got penalized. He later became a scapegoat for the "real estate penalty" mess. The webmasters who tried to game Google by engaging in black hat tactics were the real culprits, but many of them chose to blame someone else than clean up their act.If you sell links, as I do, you are taking a risk. And if you buy links, as I recommend my clients to do, you are also taking a risk. If paid links are pure advertisements, then forget the link juice - take the traffic. If paid links are SERP manipulation tools, then know the tactic is not risk free. Not all paid links are without merit, but the TLA variety which Rand pointed out are just plain spam with no editorial value. It is silly for SEOs to cling on to these tactics as the real estate webmasters clung on to their spammy link farms. Buy links or don’t buy links - that’s up to you. But if you do get bitchslapped by Google then the blame is not on Rand, or a competitor who ratted you out. The fault lies solely with you.