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Nice to have the ability to offer videos in something other than the standard YouTube viewer. I need to dig into the customization
OK everyone, don't you think the fact that Donna submitted the story led to it being identified as "fake" more quickly than if she hadn't pointed it out? It could have been out there for a long time misleading people but instead it (fairly quickly) get debunked by Matt Cutts.
So didn't Donna and Sphinn do the SEO community a favor?
Poor Hamlet suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (while try to make one).
If it wasn't such brilliant marketing I could almost feel sorry for you.
So does it matter that it reads like an infomercial, that the author got a free vacation for his effort, that he worked for you in the past (and probably wants to again)? Probably not.
Does it really add much to the "hot" discussion of SEO automation. Probably not.
Does anybody outside this little teapot really care about this little tempest? No!
Donna, looks like you just joined the club: http://toonrefugee.com/toonblog/google/google-bites/17
That link should be http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8351. I don't see anyway to edit it.
Story: The Seller’s Motivation
Google may have one of two strategies.
1. Killing the supply, although that has the by-product of actually driving up the value of links on sites that manage to successfully game Google.
2. Devaluing page rank and any other meaningful measure of link value which will help make competing against Google for ad sales even more difficult.
Still it's impressive and the number of votes seems to be climbing steadily so congratulations Sphinners whenever it happens.
OK, I was in on this too. I do take SOME responsibility for the acquisition falling through and it's something I can live with.
Basically someone decided not to take SEOmoz's money. Whether they did so because of negative publicity or because of the reason for the negative publicity or even for some other reason, we'll never really know. But it's certainly something that we as bloggers should consider before posting and something that I personally often haven't done. I will in the future.
My (obviously biased) opinion is that Rand and Skitzzo did the right thing by staying in touch and coming together on this post. There were a lot of ways to manipulate and prolong this situation to generate more controversy (and potentially more traffic). They seem to have done the opposite here.
Great read, and it's not far off from what you find in a lot of other service industries.
Danny, I don't see how outing sites for selling links is OK some of the time. It's either right or wrong. Why should you get to be the one that decides whether it will "hurt." And, if you don't expect your report to have much effect, why do it?
As for small scummy sites that intentionally mislead you, I think there might be other Google rules that they are violating that we might all agree they should be reported for.
Story: "Heroes" Lessons on Blogging
skitz, I evened things out for you with qwerty.
And, too bad you missed this week's episode, I can only imagine what blogging lesson you 'd draw from what the cheerleader did to her little toe.
Thought provoking discussion going on there. Are the "make money like me" bloggers being honest with their readers or just the modern equivalent of snake oil salesmen?
Story: The Art of eWar
lol, Skitzzo and Michael. Have you ever noticed how fights tend to pick some people more than others?
Story: Sphinn Beta: Known Bugs
I added the sphinn button over at the SEOrefugee blog but I'd prefer it to open a new window rather than sending the user off (perhaps never to return). Can you make that happen.
And, BTW, your own spell check should flag sphinn as a typo!
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