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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.
My debunking post:
Google Knol Ranking - Google NOT favoring Knol (the way you think ...)
Story: The Big Paid Link Roundup
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."
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.
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