Comments on: Google Didn’t Lie After All

By: Mark Mc

Mark Mc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:52:17 +0000

I like Danny’s data driven approach and his willingness to test the accepted wisdom. He was open about how he contructed the test and therefore people were able to make up their own minds and also to criticise. In this respect no harm was done really. On the other hand, if you are going to list the key issues in search ranking, I am not sure if page rank sculpting would make the first page, so it wouldn’t be an area I would focus on.

By: David Walker

David Walker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:32:25 +0000

Hey, Google can do no evil

Content is king, always, no short cuts. Still, there’s something to be said for SEO if done right. I think it’s when its done wrong that we see what we mostly see, and cringe.

Way to go Danny! We all make mistakes but it’s the noble among us who apologize and seek to correct.
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By: Donny Lyons

Donny Lyons — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:50:56 +0000

Yeah, it’s all about the content…I’ve been back and forth with this.

I would start a blog built on PLR articles and so forth and wouldn’t get anywhere. Then when you add quality unique content, rankings and traffic go through the roof!
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By: Donald Pennington

Donald Pennington — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:40:34 +0000

See?

By: Donald Pennington

Donald Pennington — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:40:04 +0000

Well owning up to mistakes is a great way to endear yourself since we all scrwe up sometimes.

By: The Digital Productivity Blog

The Digital Productivity Blog — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:39:09 +0000

I think while the nofollow “scientific” experiments are interesting, I agree with Google’s recommendation and SEOMoz’s and basic conclusion that the best use of time for a webmaster is to provide quality content.

For certain terms, I’ve ranked even above Digg.com simply because Google saw the article posted as being of higher potential use to searchers. That’s without any obsessive SEO tricks other than the basic H1 titles, page titles, etc.
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By: Josh Braaten

Josh Braaten — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:19:42 +0000

I'd say they're pretty darned successful. They already have 25 thumbs up and over 30 comments, most of which include some sort of praise for being so forth-coming about his mistake. It's almost as if they took a page right out of Radically Transparent., the best reputation management book I've read to date. .-= Josh Braaten´s last blog ..7 Examples of Good Web Design Page Layout =-.