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Re: Paid Links & Reviews Are Necessary For Relevant Results

Ari Shohat — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:44:54 -0000

Andy, thanks for another great post, always a pleasure to read them. There is hardly anything more I could add as you covered it so well.

Re: Paid Links & Reviews Are Necessary For Relevant Results

Ari Shohat — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:44:54 -0000

Andy, thanks for another great post, always a pleasure to read them. There is hardly anything more I could add as you covered it so well.

Re: Penalty Confirmed – But I Don't Sell PageRank

Ari Shohat — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:40:52 -0000

Hi Andy,

As you probably know there's an alternative theory going around, one recently mentioned by Shoemoney too, that is based not on whether you sell links or sell pagerank in any way. Instead it is whether whatever it is that you do makes Google look stupid, unfair, or inempt. Perhaps your usual insightful and thorough analysis has made some google engineers feel a bit too uncomfortable lately given that you have important eyeballs here. How's that for a conspiracy theory.

Keep up the great work, we won't stop reading just because pagerank goes down :)

Re: Penalty Confirmed – But I Don't Sell PageRank

Ari Shohat — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:40:52 -0000

Re: Keep Startups Simple?

Ari Shohat — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:39:50 -0000

Andy, we have no way of knowing the particulars of your situation and project ideas when you mention Google being one of the big roadblocks.

However on your other points, every startup pretty much has those road blocks to worry about. The rare success will be for those who dare to risk and try to overcome them in the face of failure and low odds. Objectively, it may be that all other counterpoints are excuses that hold us back.

PS: I hope Paul meant that "simple solutions" can be interchanged with "unique solutions." I don't think all of them are simple, in fact very often it's the insane approaches that take off. They just "become simple" much later when we take things for granted. Would we think Google Maps was a "simple solution" oh say 8 years ago?

Re: Keep Startups Simple?

Ari Shohat — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:39:50 -0000

Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Ari Shohat — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:57:22 -0000

5 years from now - Yes. 10-15 years from now... do we need another poll? :)

Re: Will Social Defeat Search?

Ari Shohat — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:46:21 -0000

Search, no matter how imperfect, at least currently scales somehow.

I do not see social scaling just yet. The bigger and the more crowded our networks become, the worse the signal to noise ratio becomes.

It's just getting over-polluted with either people who are too loud with little of true value to add.

There is also another problem. Many who attempt to go "social" find that their voice is being drowned out, or at least it's not easy to get in without playing the buddy buddy game. And there are a lot of serious and smart people out there, who just don't have the time.

What am I talking about? Well Nick, YOU may ask Gary Vaynerchuk for a good wine, and ask Frank Gruber for the best tools - but not everyone is you.

- Not everyone developed their social presence or footprint like you have.
- Not everyone has the right social skills to develop their social footprint.
- Not everyone wants to spend the time to do so, even if they know how to.
- Or, most of all, Gary V just wouldn't have the time of day to try and answer many such personal requests.

In other words, there's really a limit to a one to one type of interaction that can take place on social. The more people that join and reach for someone's attention, the harder it becomes. So how do we make it scale?

Hope this makes some sense, in a rhetorical kind of way.

Re: Subscribe to Marketing Pilgrim to Win $300!

Ari Shohat — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:04:46 -0000

Hi there,

Instead of doulbing the prize, it might make more sense to split it into two $300 prizes. This way some would feel better the chances of winning at least something aren't decreased by spreading the word to other friends who might be interested in this feed.

Thanks!

- Ari Shohat