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Ash
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 Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: Matt Cuts Blog |
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For anyone that does not know about Matt Cuts and his blog here is the link
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
It is a very handy site and one that should be visited at least once a week to keep the heads up on SEO and Google. |
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maybe not so helpful after all.
Google now wishes to stop the trade and payment for links between webmasters 
See the full post and replies to this here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/
Google thinks it's self as the god of the internet, well if this plan ever did hatch then i would say goodbye to Google, you have just slit your own throat.
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Mickyb
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Matt Cutts would have been better posting this topic on his blog on April the 1st  Then he might have not looked such a fool  |
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Mickyb
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here is a post on digg that i have just found makes for good reading
digg.com/tech_news/Don_t_Let_Google_Tell_You_How_To_Run_Your_Website |
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Ash
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To be honest i have just read that Digg and there appears to be allot of idiots that have replied or maybe it is just Google staff, as many off them there are defending Google/ Matt for what he has said.
I am against this idea that paid links should be treated as spam, who the hell do they think they are, its a search engine, so what, there are many more out there. Yahoo is not all that bad, i might even change my home page for a while and give yahoo a trial. Google needs to wake up and smell the coffee,
Webmasters provide the sites and promote Google to all their clients, what if tomorrow we all turned round and said " don't use Google the results are crap, and we can not get you into the search engine anyway as paid link building is frowned upon, go to Yahoo and MSN your site will do much better there, and we will be able to buy links on reputable sites get you good rankings without being penalized for it.
The problem is Google can not carry this plan out, 1: it will hurt them when webmasters stop promoting their sites though Google. 2: Remove the pr button, "I think not" without that green little strip Google toolbar is out the window.
Still i am not bothered about what he has to say at this point, it is all hot air and nothing will come of it.
I must hand it to them though they know how to promote them selves, whether it be good news or bad they are on tips of everyone fingers today. |
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chrishirst
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| Google now wishes to stop the trade and payment for links between webmasters |
NO THEY DON'T
What they want to do, and they have been working on this for a very long time, is to find a way to filter out paid links from natural links, thus preventing anyone who can afford to buy hundreds or thousands of links getting better results than a site owner who can't.
The idea is that by getting real people to tell google where links are being bought and sold is that it gives the engineers a much broader set of data to base a software calculation/filter on.
It is NOT Google telling the webmaster/SEO that you shouldn't buy links, it is Google developing a way to stop paid links distorting THEIR results.
Buy links if you can and want to, just buy them for the RIGHTreasons and higher rankings is NOT the right reason.
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chrishirst
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| without that green little strip Google toolbar is out the window |
Why??
The vast majority of real people who use Google to find and buy products every day have no idea about PR
There is only the narrow vision of the website operators or numptie SEOs that consider toolbar PR as any kind of useful metric. |
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Ash
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There is only the narrow vision of the website operators or numptie SEOs that consider toolbar PR as any kind of useful metric. |
I think that you are very wrong there Chris It is not webmasters at all, it is the clients/customers of webmasters that use this.
I have many clients and all they seem to be interested in is where they rank in google and if we do link exchanges for them the first thing they ask is "what is the pr of the other site?" In fact i am amazed to be hosnest at how many none webmasters/SEO persons actually know and really care about the PR.
Now if this pr button did not exist then none of my clients would be bothered with the Google toolbar, as 99% of them have said that they have only installed it due to the pr so they can watch their own sites pr and their competitors. They do not use it for any other purpose, if they wish to search they will go the their home page and do a search from there.
As a webmaster i have to keep an interest in the pr and up to date with it other wise i could not be able to provide a complete service service to my clients, if pr is what interests them, then so be it, as long the cheques keep coming i am not bothered. |
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chrishirst
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| have many clients and all they seem to be interested in is where they rank in google and if we do link exchanges for them the first thing they ask is "what is the pr of the other site?" In fact i am amazed to be hosnest at how many none webmasters/SEO persons actually know and really care about the PR. |
Emphasis mine
These are people with websites NOT the general population.
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| As a webmaster i have to keep an interest in the pr and up to date with it other wise i could not be able to provide a complete service service to my clients, if pr is what interests them, then so be it, as long the cheques keep coming i am not bothered. |
So you don't that it is more important to educate your clients a little into something that matters ??
Such as improving conversions/sales
you must have a busy time with questions, every time rankings fluctuate, as they can do on an daily basis.
and funnily enough by educating clients in what really counts, you find you can actually earn more money for much less hassle. |
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