SethFinkelstein
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Follow-up blog post:Google Knol Rankings Revisited
from SethFinkelstein 1294 Days ago#
My debunking post:Google Knol Ranking - Google NOT favoring Knol (the way you think ...)
from SethFinkelstein 1298 Days ago#
Danny, aren’t the results of this experiment affected by the freshness effect? That is, as you know, fresh pages rank better for a time after they’re created.
Story: The Big Paid Link Roundup
from SethFinkelstein 1587 Days ago#
I had a blog post on this too:
"Google Hand-Editing Results In Spirit Now? (to penalize link-selling)"
"Yet I can’t help thinking that we’ve now crossed a line here. Perhaps with the best of intentions, for the most worthy of reasons. But still, we’re now on the other side of some divide."
from SethFinkelstein 1599 Days ago#
My problem with stories such as this is that they never give an example like "We started a blog, then someone used a term that offended a customer, and then a distorted version of the incident was posted on "AttentionMonger", and then the A-listers starting screaming about the scandal, our rivals got into the act, finally our reputation took a huge negative hit from that one little misstep. Sure, maybe in hindsight it was a poor choice of words, but we suffered immensely for what would otherwise have been a passing remark. It wasn’t worth it."
It would be an ill wind indeed that blowed nobody good. But this doesn’t make going into the middle of a hurricane a good idea.
Story: Knol Does Indeed Give Pages A Google Ranking Advantage