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Before I continue, this is in no means my declaration of a side. I just couldn’t help myself, and wanted to poke fun at the seemingly Pick on Rand and SEOmoz month. I thought I would just bring a little humor to the whole thing.
The original article was taken from here :
There’s no doubt that Oprah Winfrey influences public opinion–her TV talk show reaches millions of fans each day. A group of Texas cattle ranchers are definitely not fans of Winfrey, however. They are suing her for $12 million.
On her April 16, 1996 show, Winfrey interviewed Howard Lyman, a vegetarian activist, who told the audience that the United States was in danger of having an outbreak of mad cow disease. At the time, hundreds of thousands of cows in Great Britain were being killed because experts suspected that the contaminated beef was causing a deadly disease in humans. When Lyman appeared on Winfrey’s show, there had been no recorded cases of mad cow in the United States–and there have been no cases in this country since.
After hearing Lyman, Winfrey exclaimed, “It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger.” The next day, the U.S. cattle market plummeted.
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There’s no doubt that Rand Fishkin influences public opinion–his SEO Blog reaches thousands of fans each day. A group of Sphinners, bloggers, link-buyers/sellers, and directories are definitely not fans of Fishkin, however. They are poking at him post after post after post after post.
On his September 20, 2007 post, Fishkin targeted Aviva (among others) , a directory, that would house a link to your site for a small fee. At the time, thousands of cows…I mean directories across the globe were being penalized because experts suspected that their quality was lacking and were created solely to exploit the Google PageRank system. When Fishkin first researched the Aviva Directory, there had been no recorded cases of mad cow in the United States…crap…I mean debate on Rand’s evidence for determining the directory’s penalty.
After hearing Matt Cutts respond to a directory submission question, Fishkin exclaimed, “It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger.”…dammit…I mean “What Makes a Good Web Directory, and Why Google Penalized Dozens of Bad Ones” The next day, Sphinn exploded.
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