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You think that things will become a bit normal again after the flood of posts all over the internet after David Pasternack’s 3rd negative post about SEO, just to get ”stabbed” from yet another side. I won’t link to the post by Jason Calcanis and add to the number of inbound links to his blog to play [...]

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...nal.com/?p=4387
Somey
For the curious, here's a handy multi-diff link to the WP article this guy altered, apparently to defend the SEO industry against accusations of scamming people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=106814912

Nowhere in the current version of the Search_engine_optimization article does it mention Wikipedia's own dominance of Google results, or the effect it's having on the SEO "industry," which I think any realistic person would say is worth at least a sentence or two - if not an entire subsection.
Jonny Cache
QUOTE(Somey @ Fri 9th February 2007, 12:50pm) *

For the curious, here's a handy multi-diff link to the WP article this guy altered, apparently to defend the SEO industry against accusations of scamming people:

'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Search_engine_optimization&diff=106829180&oldid=106814912'

Nowhere in the current version of the Search_engine_optimization article does it mention Wikipedia's own dominance of Google results, or the effect it's having on the SEO "industry", which I think any realistic person would say is worth at least a sentence or two -- if not an entire subsection.


Maybe they are aiming to become non-notable. Let's all wish them the best of luck with that.

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