Comments on: Greg Boser Dispatches The Black Helicopters

By: Knox

Knox — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:36:47 +0000

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By: Denver Calming Down from Black Helicopter Scare | Denver SEO Guy | Knox in Denver

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:13:11 +0000

[...] news, youtube was abuzz and my blog kept getting hit. The reason I was in the serps was due to an old real estate seo article using “black helicopters” as a [...]

By: Knox

Knox — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:23:53 +0000

Hi Larry Hotz,

INHO? REALLY?

You came to this site searching for “PropertyTown Denver” – and you are making a comment about REW – while you are a PropertyTown user. I removed your link for you are obviously trying to build links while you blast another firm – you have your marching orders, I know, but your “dog in the fight” is quite apparent.

Another comment here and it goes to Akismet and I rank for your name.

Knox

By: Larry Hotz

Larry Hotz — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:03:03 +0000

It appears REW sites have been hit a Google penalty now too. This time it was done “surgically” by hitting their “contextual linking” sites instead of the agents directly. So, agents will only suffer as their links from these juiced sites become worthless.

INHO it makes more sense to penalize the author of the violating strategy rather than the clients who may not even understand the violation of search engine guidleines they are involved in.

By: Jared Ritchey

Jared Ritchey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:40:05 +0000

I love this site, I visit it no less than twice a week and again I discover a great article which for some bizzar reason escaped me last week.

Not to add insult to injury but this issue mentioned all over the web regarding REW was no secret. This was foretold nearly a year ago and even I wrote about the importance of just doing articles on those you link out to as a safer way to link exchange. I’m not an SEO either.

kudos on the site again;

Jared Ritchey

By: Knox

Knox — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:07:19 +0000

Anyone ever think it had to do with propertytown.org….

By: Jim In Madison

Jim In Madison — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:37:53 +0000

Hi Knox and Bob,

I see bob is back, I am guessing that this is the same Bob from June and July.

By: Bob in San Diego

Bob in San Diego — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:30:40 +0000

Ultimately we are all responsible for our own sites. You can’t control your competition. All you can do is figure out what it takes to beat them without running afoul of search engines.

By: Eugene OR Real Estate

Eugene OR Real Estate — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:28:00 +0000

I think you are right that Jake had already removed his state pages. So had I and Ryan. I’m not sure about the others.

The day Boser visited my site I had state pages and I removed them a day or two later. Still got penalized nearly 2 weeks later.

Anyway, this is all history now. I just think Google should figure out a way to make these penalties part of their algos rather than hand pick a few. Oh well, how many things in life are really fair? It just sucks that we still need to be so careful with our linking when some are out there continueing with their 50 state recip programs.

By: Knox

Knox — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:10:49 +0000

I think Jake had his link pages removed much earlier but I wouldn’t pretend to know the date.

As far AA, who knows what will happen with them now. They nailed the REW clients, maybe that’s “case law” against the AA guys – we’ll have to wait and see. I wonder if anyone is still being vocal TO google about it.

Glad you got reincluded though.