Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

I applaud the use of rel="nofollow". The New York Times article seemed to blame both Get Satisfaction and Google, at least in the beginning, and that's ridiculous.

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Post by aboodman » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 2:52 AM UTC

And yet, he is still a top search result somehow. I wonder if other forums are not being as dilligent with rel=nofollow, other legit factors are helping his ranking, or if it's all seo.

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Post by srbloom » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 2:53 AM UTC

brianwillis wrote: post #3

Did anyone else find that typeface completely unreadable? Without iReader, I wouldn't have bothered with the article.

Yes. Far too lightweight for the background. Hurt my eyes.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 2:55 AM UTC

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Post by klbarry » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 3:02 AM UTC

I do basic SEO as part of my job, so I know a few basic tools that can look through this. Google keyword checker gives 590 searches a month for that phrase, so it's not too competitive. I'm sure he ranks for a lot of these tail phrases though.

A lot of his juice comes from every page on his site linking with good anchor text to every other page (seems to be over 10,000 according to Yahoo Site Explorer). The fact that he ranks so low (on my Google he's number 6 or so) even with this on such an easy term shows something, doesn't it?

There's another massive site that links to him with anchor text a lot too. It's hard to even find any of these criticism backlinks in there: it's entirely possible these critics don't count at all anyway. After all, it seems to be just a theory of the store owner.

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Post by cshenoy » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 3:08 AM UTC

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I agree that the site looks extremely shady. But that doesn't mean unsuspecting people deserve to get harassed by that asshole. I think we take for granted how well versed we are on the internet and how relatively new the concept is of buying things online. Many, many internet users still aren't accustomed to the tricks of trolls and often click on the first thing they see on Google b/c they assume they're getting things from a place that everyone else talks about (presumably because it's at the top of a Google search).

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Post by ddemchuk » Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 3:12 AM UTC

klbarry wrote: post #8

I do basic SEO as part of my job, so I know a few basic tools that can look through this. Google keyword checker gives 590 searches a month for that phrase, so it's not too competitive. I'm sure he ranks for a lot of these tail phrases though. A lot of his juice comes from every page on his site linking with good anchor text to every other page (seems to be over 10,000 according to Yahoo Site Explorer). The fact that…

looks like we're crossing paths on another internet community :)