Funniest Thing I Said at Pubcon
Posted on November 18th, 2006by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, Random Thoughts
… So I’m working on this project, and it’s totally white hat, I went out and and I bought all the right links …
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November 18th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Haha.. that’s pretty funny actually. Especially since I have heard people say almost exactly that in total seriousness!
November 18th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
It’s only a crime if you get caught
November 18th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I don’t get it.
November 18th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
…and then you 301 every single domain name you own to point to your new white hat project.
November 18th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Hawaii: observe the disconnect between ‘white hat’ and ‘bought links’
(I clicked through from the feed to get the punchline, so, yeah, took me a second too :))
November 19th, 2006 at 12:10 am
[quote]Hawaii: observe the disconnect between ‘white hat’ and ‘bought links’[/quote]
Since when is buying links not white hat?
November 19th, 2006 at 12:23 am
The two funniest thing I heard was from Kawasaki and Battelle. Here we have a guys worth a bazillion dollars, and not to proud to stand on the stage and ask for links.
November 19th, 2006 at 7:46 am
LOL. I was not there unfortunately, so I don’t know what context it was in. Were you giving a speech or just on a one to one?
November 19th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Hehe.. It was really nice to meet you and talk a bit in the BOTW booth.
November 19th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Ha! Well at first I chuckled, then I wondered: have we all drank so much of the Google kool aid that we now equate purchased links (from someone besides Google) with black hat optimization, rather than what it really is: legitimate advertising?
November 19th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
I called it Goolaide today on my blog. It was a more popular drink than Guiness at Pubcon.
Funniest thing I heard was from a guy asking Vanessa Fox for help with his site. She doesn’t have the patience of Matt, but still she deserves an award for exemplary patience under fire as the guy kept pressing her for the secret magic steps to ranking. Every time she suggested he review *anything* on his site as a possible concern, he interrupted her saying “….no..no…for SEO, the site is perfect…”
Hey Michael what happened to Ghost Bar? I was there…alone (?)
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Jill: links bought for PR (ie non no-follow) are contra-TOS for Google, so to use them is non-white hat.
But I didn’t make the joke! Its just my interpretation of why it is funny.
If you don’t agree, why do you think its funny?