Comments on: Sorry Glengarriff Lodge I’m not gonna rig Google for you

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By: frankp

frankp — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:18:30 +0000

Well, due to the feedback, and some careful consideration, the competition has been modified. No Follow is explicitly mentioned as an option, with the code to go along with it, and the specific anchor text rule is gone gone gone.

Neither I nor Glengarriff Lodge meant to stir up such controversy, hopefully this will smooth things over.

Thanks to everyone for feedback!

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By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:54:49 +0000

One further point - the interesting thing will be to see if that rank sticks. The burstiness of the links may signal a transient topic. Interesting experiment all the same.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:53:18 +0000

And for anyone who doubted the power of targeted anchor text:

http://www.google.ie/search?q=Luxury+Self+Catering

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:07:20 +0000

Considered putting up a blog-post but decided “no, f*ck that”.
Nobody might read my blog but it’s not cheap…

By: Curly K

Curly K — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:33:42 +0000

Well, as “normal user” and blogger I do think that you are being harsh on Glengarriff Lodge and their competition Damien. I did a post cos yes I would absolutely love to win but it is very much as Frank says, it is only because I personally place an inherent value outside money on the prize. I mean if someone handed me an all-expenses paid trip to say Playa de Ingles you still wouldn’t beat back to place!

Maybe I’m naive but I really think the competition is a lot more innocent than you are making it out to be. I certainly received no viral emails or crap, I saw the details posted on a blog I regularly read, went onto the Glengarriff Lodge site and really liked what I saw and indeed the simplicity of what they are trying to do with the competition.

Don’t be such a cynic Damien, you’re too young for all that!

By: OneForTheRoad

OneForTheRoad — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:45:09 +0000

No one asked me to put anything on my blog