Uber Self Righteous Douche: Rand Fishkin -

[bitsdawg]

The "respect the hustle" trope on WF means "I'll be an apologist for this douchebag because if I figure out how to make money by being a douchbag I'll be doing something similar."

I hate myself for liking that.

 

[dcodex]

He's just trying to position himself so he's aligned with Google. Ignore him because all he really is, is the mouthpiece of Google propaganda machine.

 

[styledoesmatter]

He's a businessman. He makes more money than 99.9% of this forum.

Whether or not you agree with his tactics is moot. Fact is, he banks more and that's his exact goal.

I hear ya on that but there's more than one way to make a buck. The fact that Fishcunt makes his money shitting on backlinking (while peddling SEO software) is the problem.

 

[mgtarheels]

I hear ya on that but there's more than one way to make a buck. The fact that Fishcunt makes his money shitting on backlinking (while peddling SEO software) is the problem.

He doesn't make his money by shitting on backlinking. Backlinking is exactly how he made his money! It's called link bait!

His plan is working as intended, evidenced by how much you guys talk about him on this forum alone, let alone every other e-outlet.

 

[bodiddley]

How many "fucktards" that drink SEOMoz's Kool-Aid also have large PPC spends? Something to think about.

Google is not strictly a search engine anymore, they are an ad serving platform by and large. And the customer (when it affects a corps bottom line) is always right.

With Google, the paying customer is always *wrong*. Do you live in a cave?

 

[rusvik]

He doesn't make his money by shitting on backlinking. Backlinking is exactly how he made his money! It's called link bait!

His plan is working as intended, evidenced by how much you guys talk about him on this forum alone, let alone every other e-outlet.

It's allright, you can be a douchebag if you want but why even be an SEO? Drugs, pimping or weapons smuggling is far more lucatrive if you don't care about messing with a lot of other peoples livelihood. I feel the most sorry for companies who hire one of those Twitter SEOs.

 

[JCash]

Also:

 

[Yuma504]

It would behoove you to do a little research on wpmudev.org, what they are, their prior history with Google, publicity stunts they've pulled in the past, how they and edublogs were impacted by prior updates, and how Google as an entity feels about some of the plugins and tools wpmudev makes available by subscription.

Not trying to flog a dead horse -

Matt Cutts On Penalties Vs. Algorithm Changes, A Disavow-This-Link Tool & More

Danny: What’s the deal with Penguin. Is it a penalty?

Matt: We look at it something designed to tackle low-quality content. It started out with Panda, and then we noticed that there was still a lot of spam and Penguin was designed to tackle that. It’s an algorithmic change, but when we use a word like “penalty,” we’re talking about a manual action taken by the web spam team — it wasn’t that.

We don’t think of it as a penalty. We think of it as, “We have over 200 signals, and this is one of the signals.”

DS: So from now, does “penalty” mean it’s a human thing?

MC: That’s pretty much how we look at it. In fact, we don’t use the word “penalty” much, we refer to things as a “manual action.” Part of the reason why we do that breakdown is, how transparent can we be? We do monthly updates where we talk about changes, and in the past year, we’ve been more transparent about times when we take manual action. We send out alerts via Google Webmaster Tools.

DS: Did you just do another Penguin update?

MC: No.

Danny references the WPMU story and Matt says that the site recovered due to the data refreshes and algorithmic tweaks.

 

[webjedi]

TarHeals is totally right.

If any one of you were offered to switch places with Fishkin you totally would in a millisecond so eat it you hypocrites.
The dude is making bank in the SEO industry get over it.

 

[Mikesev]

IMO, 'Disavow This Link' = G shifting responsibility for classifying links to site owners because they don't know how to do it.

Cue SEO arms race of who can push the most shit links at their competitors, because if you don't disavow a link, G will assume you want it and penalise accordingly.

 

[ly2 from WF]

TarHeals is totally right.

If any one of you were offered to switch places with Fishkin you totally would in a millisecond so eat it you hypocrites.
The dude is making bank in the SEO industry get over it.

Not true. If someone offered me the chance to switch bank accounts with Rand, fucking right I'd do it.

However, if I had to actually switch lives and take on his daily routine of being a faggot and getting my cock sucked at various "conventions" by Warrior Forum celebs, then no, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself. I very much enjoy my life and definitely wouldn't trade it for Rand's no matter how much money the silly little fucker has. When is the last time Rand slept until 4pm or woke up and started his day at 1am? You can't pay for that kind freedom, that 9-5 bullshit is for the birds.

True story.