Comments on: Doing Things The Right Way — or The Google Way (was: How To Lose Trust)

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Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:11:22 +0000

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By: What Is Duplicate Content (& Do You Have It) | Search Engine People | Toronto

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:27:08 +0000

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By: Toronto SEO

Toronto SEO — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:28:32 +0000

If they lost any trust it was with SEO's not really webmasters…and I don't think it matter much to them.

Also Jill, "Matt Cutts typically says he's not speaking officially for Google when he posts in his blog"

I don't believe that for a second, maybe the official part whatever that means but I am pretty sure everything he writes is given a green/red light from the powers-that-be at Google

By: Terry Van Horne

Terry Van Horne — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:09:10 +0000

Well… been around just too long to take anything any SE says as anything but a convenient way for them to get those who don't have a clue to do their bidding. I posted on SEG when sculpting surfaced that it would be a big red flag… sure enough.

I mean come on… that has a footprint the size of bigfoot! Nobody bothered to read the RFC to find out what "nofollow" as an attribute of an element does/says. It says basically the the author doesn't trust the content… so basically all the stooges who thought they were gaming Google were actually saying what? Hey I don't trust my own content… how could someone not see that ends badly or is not very effective? They might want to think more about how they use links as nav and then you don't need to use sculpting do you. Isn't that actually the best way to fix the problem if it ever was one?

By: Cool Gifts

Cool Gifts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:26:01 +0000

You are definitely correct Ruud. It seems like we can been using as a crutch and trusting that they will always support us and have our best interests in mind. In reality, it's best to always be questioning the powers at be, and making sure you don't get use to them always steering you down the right path.

By: Tvents

Tvents — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:59:47 +0000

What Google does is unpredictable. But I like to learn how the SEO make a decision based on the analyze of Google results. There are many steps in SEO which can be followed at least to estimate the habits of Google.

By: James

James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:13:47 +0000

The Google Way of doing things:
"Yep folks, we dammed that river up a year ago. Figured it was for the best. Oh sorry your crops are whithering and dying as a result"

By: Harvey Kane

Harvey Kane — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:39:31 +0000

I'm still confused as to what's wrong with PR sculpting anyway. Diligent webmasters have spent hours going over their websites with their pink nofollow sticker, trying to make Googlebot's experience through the site a good one. Surely this human input from the webmaster makes Google's job much easier?

By: Ruud Questions: Steve Plunkett on Google Is Our Friend | Webbyn.com

Ruud Questions: Steve Plunkett on Google Is Our Friend | Webbyn.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:47:35 +0000

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By: Ruud Questions: Steve Plunkett on Google Is Our Friend | Search Engine People | Toronto

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:27 +0000

[...] Doing Things The Right Way — or The Google Way (was: How To Lose Trust) I wrote how aside whatever technical workings of the rel=nofollow attribute there is a lack of [...]