aaronwall

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by aaronwall 16y ago
I do leave wiggle room in the words because I often analyze how systems are changing. Such analysis is based on hunches and presumption and experiences that can't always fully be revealed publicly without leading people astray or adding unn
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by aaronwall 16y ago
The filler text complaint is a common complaint against SEOs, but that is a problem far more common with the likes of content mills. That post includes many things that were not publicly known in the prior context (like TripAdvisor's past l
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by aaronwall 16y ago
I thought that post was rather direct. The points of it were... - anytime you enter a new market you are typically doing so from a competitive disadvantage - to come from behind you need a unique strategy (rather than relying on a paint-by-
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Our membership site has only been open for a couple years (with a 3 month pause in there) and I personally wrote about 25,000 posts in the forums, answering thousands and thousands of questions. It honestly doesn't get much more personal th
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by aaronwall 16y ago
How many of those sites had the sustained level of traffic that Mahalo had for years? Also note that Mahalo enjoyed that level of traffic based on auto-generating pages through shagging third party content (without requesting permission and
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Hehehe ... with a close second perhaps being "using deceptive public relations non-sense to get ink any way possible" Good things happen to good people. The opposite is also true. Congrats Jason! :D
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Didn't AdWords advertisers get a quality score discount (through higher ad clickthrough rates + free checkout processing) for using Google Checkout? The official page for Google Checkout to this day states "Google Checkout users click on ad
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Thanks. I try hard :)
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by aaronwall 16y ago
I was not saying that eHow's public relations saved them, but rather it is what caused the backlash against content farms.
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Spot on ohashi. The moral litmus test for Jason's about-face would be if he felt so bad about the content mill pages on Mahalo that he deleted them from the web and tested the (alleged) "quality" content as a business model. IMHO this just
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by aaronwall 16y ago
1.) People pay public relations firms a lot for press coverage. And they pay Google ~ $30 billion a year for AdWords ads. If SEO is way cheaper (and it typically is) then what makes it overpriced (when similar traffic streams indicate that
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Have to disagree with that 100%. Maybe 110%, if I am allowed. Bloglines is now a scraped "answers" website. If I took our old Threadwatch.org and did the exact same thing would Google let it rank based on existing link equity? If not, what
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by aaronwall 16y ago
I can confirm that Patrick knows more about SEO than 98% of SEO experts . I know this because he is a member of our community and we chat often, I tell him stuff that is off the record & sometimes he evolves the model & pushes my m
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Follow the money. What % of spam sites are wrapped in AdSense? Greater than 5%? Greater than 50%? For all Google's talk of content quality, they are clearly willing to make some concessions with who they have as business partners and the ty
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by aaronwall 16y ago
That comment sorta makes me cringe for choice of branding, as sometimes when anyone who talks bad about someone with a "very popular SEO book" people will assume that it is me. I would just like to clarify that I have never had a customer p
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by aaronwall 16y ago
This is a bit ironic, but inside the field of SEO I don't think search rankings matter that much. Anytime you sell something which is a higher end service or an abstract type of service what drives sales is word of mouth recommendations rat
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Also keep in mind that even if the forum is the main thing you are known for, a lot of people learn in different ways. So it is helpful to offer a variety of formats to be more remarkable. In addition to our forum we offer: a monthly newsle
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by aaronwall 16y ago
The reason our pricepoint is $300/mo is because our service is nearly/roughly comparable to buying SEO consulting from a top SEO company. The speed with which questions get answered in the forums, the depth of the answers, and how noise fre
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by aaronwall 16y ago
As long as you feel important I suppose that is all that matters. Self-aggrandizing for the win. The funny thing about your presumption is that you don't realize how much web traffic I control, or that I was able to grow a similar sized t
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by aaronwall 16y ago
At some point, doesn't a person who consistently ends up on the wrong side of the truth end up losing the benefit of the doubt? My guess is Jason was hoping nobody would find that. ;)
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by aaronwall 16y ago
The question is, do you feel you deserve such exposure? How did you manage to earn it? Was it what you were hoping for? I hope your search traffic is up, in spite of what third party metrics tools are showing ;) I will give you this... nfl-
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Great citation. Years ago I registered AdWordsBlog.com and AdSenseBlog.com & then pinged a Google engineer so they could transfer them in. Its the polite thing to do. I did the same thing with SethGodin.net. If you see some stuff like t
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by aaronwall 16y ago
If you would have read that article (and followed the advice) you wouldn't have registered names like nfl-anwsers.com ;)
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by aaronwall 16y ago
Buying great domain names is just a great/smart/effective strategy. But cybersquatting isn't something where a person is operating in the gray area of the terms of service, it is something which is clearly illegal . Now that is somethi
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by aaronwall 17y ago
Congrats on the move :D
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by aaronwall 17y ago
The thing is ... the harmful emails are never really from paying customers. They are almost always from freetards who remind you that... - you are expected to provide phone support to them (even though they are not a paying customer &
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by aaronwall 17y ago
"and thought that Goldman was an example of the former" Clearly you didn't see where the AIG bailout money went to at the time, courtesy of then U.S. Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs.
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by aaronwall 17y ago
Thanks for recommending our site. :D I think there will always be a career in SEO, but what that career looks like will change over time. Years ago it was tweaking page titles and meta tags. Page titles are still important, of course, but t
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by aaronwall 17y ago
With Google custom search engine you can create your own personalized search service...built off the back of Google, but while delisting any sites you do not want results from. And it only takes about 30 seconds to set one up. Then you embe
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by aaronwall 17y ago
That is the angle Jason used when he created his steaming pile. It doesn't mean that anyone in the industry agrees with Jason's strategy. And if you want to place the blame where it belongs remember that Google is the company funding all th

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