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Mark at DigeratiMarketing.. I'm Tweeting at http://www.twitter.com/thetafferboy

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Does nobody see the bandwidth implications of having uneeded words on a page that serves billions of searches per day! $$$!

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Wasn't knocking your post and I'm aware that (somehow) the long sales copy pages work well. They just make me, personally, bile in my mouth a little ;-)

Those 20m long white sales pages send more alarm bells ringing than a worldwide thermo-nuclear war drill. Eugh!

Hi, I'm the author of DigeratiMarketing. While I think it's ironic that there's only 1 comment here, I just wanted to point out a few things that have been overlooked..

For instance, "...won’t nofollow them… to be honest I only use them when linking out to a potential ‘bad nieghbourhood’. "

How do you know when you're linking to a bad neighbourhood then? Do you change you user-agent or referrer when checking the page that's being linked to? Do you inspect the information in the header? If not, then it would be quite simple for me to dupe you into linking anywhere I wished.

Just nofollow your comments and be safe, there are thousands of blogs with nofollow with great followings. Tbh, all user-generated content should be nofollowed.

Fair enough. Although #12 - "witty" trolling often gets the most thumbs up. It's a harsh environment with so many geeks in the wild.

Looks like #2 to me... As much as I'd like to jump on the numero uno wagon.

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I imagine 25% of MySpace accounts are spam. I know people with hundreds of the damn things.

Some excellent points there. It will be interesting to see how SEO develops with web tech.. Hope it still exists or I'm out of a job! Multi-skill!

"Google basically ignores links on pages that are below about PR4, so a comment on a typical blog post is worthless in terms of draining PR juice from a site." -David Bradley

What a load of garbage! YahooSE will put your DLs in order of importance - go comment on a PR8 blog and look at the value of the deeplink comment you get.

You're also totally ignoring link velocity, which is incredibly important for rankings..

I fail to see how redirecting bots with a 301 will get you banned.

What stops me creating a page with diggable content, then 301'ing bots to marketing pilgrim? The worst that could happen is that my patsi 301 page gets banned. Google can't ban marketingpilgrim because it's not their fault who 301s to them!

I don't think it's worth getting hot under the collar about. The guy quite obviously knows nothing about the Internet, branding, marketing, programming or usability - let alone SEO! Just look at his site, it's terrible!

The article is wrong anyway, he holds 3rd position for "audio book" searches. Let him keep his texty website and see where he is in 5 years time. Or perhaps in 5 weeks time, if he's annoyed enough SEOs?

Any company worth their salt as a client would have the sense not the listen to that peon!