Comments for Paul Madden

Comment on If you think it makes you feel superior youre deluded by IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:01:35 +0000

Seeing who’s the site owner, I am somehow not surprised. Anyways, seeing how quick Google is nowadays to act on spam reports and how their whole algo seems to rely on them, why even bother running a site like that if any loser incapable of achieving rankings by proper methods can report his competitors directly to Google.

Comment on Building a distributed link network by Another Anon

Another Anon — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:32:07 +0000

Read you post with interest ! Yes, I’d like to take part in a chat if you do decide to have one.
What about the possibility of a ‘Group Network’ that we all contribute to. Is that feasible?
Your strategy sounds good.

Comment on 10 tips on using oDesk to outsource your life by Karen

Karen — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:05:43 +0000

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Comment on What would a spammer do? by chocoholic

chocoholic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:06:37 +0000

I would love to hear more on natural and distributed link networks as discussed in your post below…c u at thinkvisibility…

Comment on What would a spammer do? by rishil

rishil — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:46:16 +0000

In order of preference:
1. Opportunity is everywhere
2. Scraping 101
3. Online experiments
4. Offline experiments
5. The mentality of the spammer
6. Natural link networks
7. Users are just an organic proxy
8. People are naturally trusting

Comment on Building a distributed link network by Anon

Anon — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:37:26 +0000

This is the single most useful post I have read all year. I want to be in that chat session if you end up having it. Please email if you do. U r awesome. Thanks!

Comment on Paid Links – Who is safe? by dawn

dawn — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:47:40 +0000

Perhaps big brands *should* do better because they are what people would expect to see.

If you typed “coke” into google and “panda pops” came out top, that would seem wrong, wouldn’t it?

Link building is just spamming and cheating, anyway. So it’s hardly fair to sulk when someone with more money does it better and the best team win.

Perhaps companies should get on with providing interesting content instead of cutting corners with SEO. A good website can often beat a bad well-known one. Unfortunately, SEOs seem mostly pretty lacking in imagination and go down the spam route, rather than anything positive.

Ultimately, if everyone is using link building schemes then they will all cancel each other out, and the search results will reflect genuine popularity, as it should.

Buying / begging for links is a really dirty game.

Comment on Building a distributed link network by Erica

Erica — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:49:08 +0000

Are you in any way promoting these websites? At least some of them? By “promoting” I mean any form of pr sculpting (directories, getting linksfrom other blogs, whatever),in order to make the links you get from them more valuable. Or are you just aiming at quantity rather than quality in these huge networks? Maybe quality is a better choice in small networks I guess.

Thanks! E.

Comment on Paid Links – Who is safe? by Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:35:00 +0000

Yes. Wait. No. Am I? I am enthralled with Midge Ure so maybe.

Comment on Paid Links – Who is safe? by SEOidiot

SEOidiot — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:16:16 +0000

Are you suggesting that the UK’s second largest bearings distributions buying group isnt a large brand?