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I hardly think that I tore down anyone else.

I tried reading your comment but it seems like you just went off on your own tangent that doesn't really seem to have anything to do with me or the post. I have writers too - I'm not relying on them to get me top rankings with their amazing link baiting skills.

If you think I'm going to rank for 'Rand' (who would even search for that?) then I have some handsome pills to sell you.

I shouldn't be surprised that the argument is very one-sided here. No matter what I reply it will be nit-picked apart in defense of Rand. After all, this is his website. The same thing would happen if you were to comment on mine; you would be nit-picked and 'proven' to have no idea what you're talking about.

It's a shame you read the first 10% of an article and went on this mini-rant. However, I have to thank you for allowing me to have my few seconds. It was nice to have readers for the first time in my life

P.S. Just to make you dislike me even more I'll be the bearer of bad news; Your website is down.

Thanks Jesse,

Your photo is so alpha that I unfortunately can't make a single negative comment about it. Nice to see where your priorities lie when it comes to discussing SEO information though (did a dude or a chick write it? what do they look like?)

I never missed that at all. It has been a nice message everyone preaches for years. If you think it's as relevant as it used to be for search results then I urge you to use Google more often.

I have never said that building a brand is bad and I still highly advocate writing good content (I even mentioned it in my latest post and in the comments after someone wrote "Fuck Rand and Moz"). They work great and I try to follow this as much as I can, but it's not really helping my marketing right now when it comes to search traffic.

Anyway

Silliness

Hi EGOL,

Nice to see you here. I remember reading your comments / forum posts as far back as 2006/7 when I used to be a member of Web Workshop.

I find it interesting that you would simply say 'the rest of the post makes no sense to me' without really backing anything up. That doesn't seem to be your style at all.

If you could clarify anything I would love to take it on board. I know I can't please everyone but I'm always happy to improve

That's what I thought. Was curious to see "The Moz" view on things

Hey Marcus,

I run a popular marketing blog, ViperChill, and get hundreds of comments on every single post.

When people comment, they link back to their site with their name (just like regular comments).

I used phpFox back in 2006, so admitedly it has been a while.

Personally, I would try to go with something like vbulletin's system or use Buddypress by Wordpress. phpFox did not really care about SEO in the past, and I don't think they've changed much since then.

vBulletin & Buddypress do offer great SEO solutions though.

Just received my first crawl report from SEOmoz for my blog.

I've rreceived a number of warnings / errors about having too many outbound links on my pages. These are simply comments from people (some pages have 300+) and the links are nofollowed.

It seems like you guys must have a reason why this warning is in place, so I would love your theories...

Hi EGOL,

Nice to see you here. I remember reading your comments / forum posts as far back as 2006/7 when I used to be a member of Web Workshop.

I find it interesting that you would simply say 'the rest of the post makes no sense to me' without really backing anything up. That doesn't seem to be your style at all.

If you could clarify anything I would love to take it on board. I know I can't please everyone but I'm always happy to improve

Thanks Jesse,

Your photo is so alpha that I unfortunately can't make a single negative comment about it. Nice to see where your priorities lie when it comes to discussing SEO information though (did a dude or a chick write it? what do they look like?)

I never missed that at all. It has been a nice message everyone preaches for years. If you think it's as relevant as it used to be for search results then I urge you to use Google more often.

I have never said that building a brand is bad and I still highly advocate writing good content (I even mentioned it in my latest post and in the comments after someone wrote "Fuck Rand and Moz"). They work great and I try to follow this as much as I can, but it's not really helping my marketing right now when it comes to search traffic.

Anyway

Silliness

I hardly think that I tore down anyone else.

I tried reading your comment but it seems like you just went off on your own tangent that doesn't really seem to have anything to do with me or the post. I have writers too - I'm not relying on them to get me top rankings with their amazing link baiting skills.

If you think I'm going to rank for 'Rand' (who would even search for that?) then I have some handsome pills to sell you.

I shouldn't be surprised that the argument is very one-sided here. No matter what I reply it will be nit-picked apart in defense of Rand. After all, this is his website. The same thing would happen if you were to comment on mine; you would be nit-picked and 'proven' to have no idea what you're talking about.

It's a shame you read the first 10% of an article and went on this mini-rant. However, I have to thank you for allowing me to have my few seconds. It was nice to have readers for the first time in my life

P.S. Just to make you dislike me even more I'll be the bearer of bad news; Your website is down.